Morton Feldman
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Morton Feldman
Morton Feldmanwas an American composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth12 January 1926
CountryUnited States of America
finally handle life minor second
I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.
piano might flutes
Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap
feelings abnormal events
Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.
cages metaphor parables
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.
remember
We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.
music memories ideas
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed. ... To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition... Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves-not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.
attitude should-have ideas
To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ... not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ... except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ... if you're into it.
wanted
Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.
helping-others psychiatry jew
After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.
wipe
Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?
musician
Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.