Success Quote by Edgard Varese

Varese isn`t fantasizing about a shinier orchestra; he`s declaring independence from it. "Instruments obedient to my thought" lands with the audacity of an engineer and the impatience of an artist who keeps being told to make do with legacy hardware. The line carries a subtle indictment: traditional instruments don`t merely limit volume or range, they constrain imagination itself, forcing the composer to translate inner experience into a pre-approved palette.

The subtext is control, but not in the sterile, totalizing way critics sometimes pin on modernists. Varese wants immediacy - a direct circuit from mind to sound - because he hears music as energy and motion more than melody. That`s why the second half matters: "a whole new world of unsuspected sounds" isn`t novelty for its own sake; it`s a promise that technology can reveal reality we`ve been deaf to. The word "unsuspected" implies our ears are culturally trained, not naturally complete.

Context sharpens the intent. Writing in the early-to-mid 20th century, Varese is staring at radio, recording, electricity, and the first serious experiments that would lead to electronic music. He becomes a patron saint of composers who stop asking, "What can a violin do?" and start asking, "What is sound, period?" "Exigencies of my inner rhythm" is the tell: rhythm as an internal, bodily demand, not a metronomic grid. He`s imagining tools that can meet the pressure of that demand, and in doing so he forecasts a future where composing looks less like scoring and more like designing a sonic world.