Crumb's near-immediate assimilation to the musical mainstream was attributed to his dizzying sonic imagination, exploding extended techniques, and creating a vast new timbral universe.
Crumb insisted that his extended techniques were not mere sound effects but essential elements of musical expression, as seen in the intricate instructions in his hand-created scores like Ancient Voices of Children.
He managed to evade the rift between serialists and tonal composers in the 1960s and '70s with his original writing, having both timely and timeless characteristics in titles and compositions like Black Angels.
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