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Arnold's music is characterized by a sense of dislocation and discontinuity, effects which are created using atonal melodies and novel combinations of instruments and timbres. It is generally slow-paced and characterised by a drifting, directionless quality, which he terms "slack". He has said of his
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A formative influence during Arnold's studies was the Czech-Canadian experimental composer
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of the wonderful" on his music. Komorous developed the aesthetic with musical colleagues in the Czech
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Rutherford-Johnson, Tim (March 2017). "Experimental music from Canada".
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