Do You Hear What I Hear...?

The frustrating thing about works that are written recently ("recently" meaning in the last 75 years or so) is the need to listen to them multiple times before they make any sense.  I do not particularly enjoy this, despite the fact I am enjoying Stravinsky's The Wedding.

Listening to Wuorinen's Genesis.  It is not completely disconnected, but it is one of those pieces that could give me a headache.  It is dense with notes.  Sometimes the notes sound wrong.  In fact, a lot of them sound wrong.  Did the women just sing an incorrect chord?  Did the horns just "blatt?"  I know that is not an official term, but I am unsure of what it is called.

35 minutes of thinking of intervals.  Those poor singers.  It is difficult to hear this kind of music as a singer- it's so interval based.  Instead of singing a line or hearing chords, it jumps around so that the voices are thinking of intervals.  It's not as if singers blow through their instruments, push a button, and the correct note comes out.

It almost feels meterless.  It certainly does not have defined phrases, at least the traditional kind.  This is not your 4 or 8 bar Mozart phrase.

There is some "growling" used in the instruments (in brass and flutes, as far as I have heard).

Here is what else I hear:  The brass is farting, random notes from different instruments building on top of each other, lots of trumpet/brass playing loudly fighting each other with their notes, rhythm that does not fit neatly into a measure, high flutes, glissandos in the strings, Latin text, some high blocks, moments of brief phrases that make sense.  The fifth movement is very bombastic.  Very dramatic dynamics at times.