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Elm Greenwood
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Peter Garland - The Days Run Away
Просмотров 11 тыс.10 лет назад
A beautiful early piano piece by the fantastic American composer Peter Garland. Friend and contemporary of Jim Tenney, Harold Budd, John Luther Adams, Lou Harrison, Harry Partch, Conlon Nancarrow etc. He was also the founder of Soundings Press. Buy his CDs!
David Mahler - Only Music Can Save Me Now
Просмотров 4,7 тыс.10 лет назад
A fantastic piece for solo piano by the American composer David Mahler. Taken from the album of the same name, played by Nurit Tilles.
David Mahler - La Ciudad De Nuestra Señora La Reina De Los Angeles
Просмотров 85110 лет назад
A beautiful piece written by the American composer David Mahler. As released on the first anthology from Cold Blue. (www.coldbluemusic.com/)
Thank goodness you have music to save you and your uplifting gifts!
To those who draw false conclusions from this tape: Feldman actually was one of the most witty people I ever met. (Even from a Hegelian point of view as Heinz Klaus Metzger, who adored Feldman, would have told you). It is important to realise that at that point he was very tired of quick wise-cracking as demonstrated by the interviewer who constantly interrupts him. He hated stereotypes and kept reflecting on art from all sorts of angles. Later it would even include nomadic rugs which he studied in-depth. Frequently he mentioned the heated discussions with his teacher Stefan Wolpe earlier in his life. Conversations with Rothko or Guston certainly introduced a degree of hesitancy, of questioning a standardised 'academic' discourse. That's also what he made responsible for the decline of Boulez and Stockhausen who were stuck in those schemes.
hello, where can we find the conversations with Rothko or Guston please ?
It gets interesting by the 38-minute mark when Feldman starts talking about his composition process. I do think it could have been better with a less pedantic interviewer, genuinely interested in listening to the composers' ideas. The name-dropping was excessive and the guy focused too much on promoting some sort of hyper-intellectual spectacle.
Besutifully interesting
May I contact you to furthering some questions about him as I am studying his persona in order to make some art studies for university?
I think Feldman comes across as reasonably humorous here, and I have no idea why commenters are so critical of the interviewer. It seems to me he knows his subject and engages Feldman quite effectively.
Einerseits denke ich, diese Zeit war fantastisch, ein paar privilegierte Leute konnten klugscheißen über Cage oder Christian Wolff .... über ein intellektuelles Geplänkel im Angesicht eines vollkommen dilletantischen Komponieren, das die Oberhand gewann, weil Musiker mit Musik und üben beschäftigt waren, während Komponisten gefangen waren in Klugscheißereien über Zeit, Zen und allem Möglichem nur nicht mit musikalischem Üben an einem Instrument. Gut dass "Marcell Du Champs" fiel, weil das die satanistische Weltordnung des Nichts repräsentiert, der wir seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert ausgesetzt sind. Es zeigt die Geschichte, dass einerseits alles irrelevant ist, das moderne Kunst repräsentiert, während die Ablehnung durch die Masse, und deren Verführung in den Satanismus der Popmusik, und seine Relevanz im Spiegel der Masse und sich selbst dadurch, nämlich den Schwachsinn der Masse in deren Bedeutungslosigkeit repräsentierend, erst recht den Elitarismus der moderen Kunst damals, nämlich den 50igern bis Ende der 80er ausmacht. Andererseits findet all das keinen Widerhall, weder in einer ernst zu nehmenden intellektuellen Auseinandersetzung - weil eben Intellektualität auf geisteswissenschaftlichem Niveau ausstarb (alles einem stupiden akademischen Machbarkeits-Stuss wich) noch in einer breiten quasi "kennerischen" oder "romantischen" Rezeption - wiewohl diese ja von vornherein jeglicher "Modernität" entgegenstünde; und zwar ideolgisch sowie rezeptorisch. So muss der Spezies der Neuen Musik Komponisten dieser Zeit, insbesondere Feldman, gutgeheisßen werden, dass sie in ihrer Herangehensweise eine vollkommen wunderbar fantastische Welt der fortschreitenden Zusammenklänge, der Spektren in Zeitentfaltung mittels traditionellem Musikantentum, ermöglichten. Deren Realisation bleibt noch immer präker und spannungsreich. Möge dereinst eine menschliche Spezies entstehen, die, dem Stumpfsinn unserer Gegenwart (politisch totalitär, künstlerisch einfältig und armselig) entwachsen, diese Gebilde zu apperzipeiren zu versteht.
Do you know where I can purchase an MP3 copy of this recording?
However RUclips transcribed this, it comes out as total idiocy. They should hire someone familiar with the material to get it right.
"the electric guitar....i think it's the vibraphone of the future" 😄
Always far too impressed with himself. Amateur, and a real jerk at times.
Any composer whose music still finds a new generation 34 years after his/her passing, is not an amateur.
Why not? In any event, Feldman had an out-sized ego and an over-blown estimation of his “talents”. In every interview of him I’ve read/heard, he comes across as a snotty jerk. Post-1967, he wrote a few interesting pieces - Rothko Chapel, The Viola in My Life, for example - but the longer pieces are mostly a waste of time (I sat through the world premiere of the complete version of the 2nd string quartet and sat through it again 2 years later, still hate the piece). By the way, what had Feldman written as of 1967 to warrant the attention he was getting then?
@@eai554 Because he was a professional composer in lifetime and his music is still a cultural point of reference within modern music and in other arts as well. Whether you or I like it is another matter. I wouldn't call Max Richter anything but professional even though I don't care that much for his music. Personally, I've had profound experiences with Feldmans hour long string quartet. I don't know about his personality and would prefer not to regard his music though that anyway. From the few interviews I've heard, he seems witty and smart although maybe a bit self important.
Not smart. A pretentious name-dropper. I believe that he was aware of and defensive about his overall lack of formal education. He read a few things, and faked it. His comments about certain composers are off-putting, to say the least. He managed a few good pieces, very nice, give him credit for that. But overall a mediocre musical presence.
@@eai554 I disagree. :)
What a difficult person to interview. He barely speaks and doesn’t go to much extent to further explain his answers.
That's because the interviewer always jumps in with a hash-up of stereotypes. I knew Feldman and listened to him for hours and hours on end talking. At one point in 1984 he talked for a week with very little interruptions. He might have been the most eloquent person I ever met, including my mother.
Hyper-intelligent composer.
what a crazy vague midnight conversation
Pythagorean Silence -- astonishing
17:53
It's interesting how deeply this music touches me. For some reason it really speaks to me. A beautiful composition.
"You see, the reason my music is limitated is because I don't believe in Hegel" - Morton Feldman
ok, sir, you sold me. now I am obligated to listen to this whole thing with complete attention. bravo.
Hahahaha
thank you
This interviewer is totally out of his element.
The 'ciggies' ruined Morton's health, just as they do everyone else's.
Everyone knows someone whose life was cut short by smoking.
Great video
Morton so funny
Thanks (yet again) Klausman!
"...so is there a little bit of Hegel left in every body who begins?" fecking brilliant.
Thanks so much for sharing this. Who is the interviewer, and what is the venue?
Wanna know why his music is slow, even dim-witted? Cause that’s who he was, how his mind worked. Just listen-it all becomes quite clear.
I knew M. Feldman and he did not at all match your description. You are missing something.
Wow, another dim wit online! If I had a dime for every pseudo-intellectual moron commenting online...well, I'd be living in my estate in the Bahamas.
@@danyelnicholas I meant the guy above you! What a stupid comment. How is Feldman's music dim-witted?
Escuchando esta entrevista mientras suena de fondo su Piano y cuarteto de cuerdas (1985).
The interviewer sounds like Neil Peart. I know it's not lol. Great interview!
Is there any more to this?
43:20
why is this so good?
it's not
bleedinggums roberts because they're intelligent people, and they're passionate about music.
"Music is always going to have a great past."
What label?
+Mark Collins The label is Tzadik. www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7053
Thanks, sarangistrategy. Tzadik- looking cover, now that you mention it...
Hah, wow, when he starts talking he sounds completely different than I imagined his voice. He sounds confident, open and sort of a bit streetwise or something even. I have listened to his music a lot especially for Bunita Marcus and I would have imagined him sort of shy or recluse, introvert or whatever. I guess I'm just projecting things from myself on to hs music and assuming that his him. Maybe if you would have met Beethoven he talked like Robin Williams. :-)
+Del Berry (delberry) He sounds like a pretentious douche to me.
Oh you're projecting things from yourself onto his voice, interesting.
I think it might be the New York accent that makes him sound streetwise and brash. But anyway, Feldman didn't have much to say about theories...he himself always said, in effect "Just write down the notes!" That's why Cage was so astonished with the fact that Feldman didn't know "how" he wrote a given piece.
Where did you read that?
it's in the beginning of the interview. It's also in the liner notes of his first record.
At 4:16, Feldman says that Christian Wolff is the "Webern of the future." Little did he know that Wolff would, like Webern, meet an unusual, untimely demise: Bob Saget raped and killed Wolff in 1990.
+Star Brom "It's not true" (Gilbert Gottfried) I'm not seeing any association between Christian Wolff (or Morton Feldman) and Bob Saget. I guess the joke's on me.
+Star Brom what in the hell are you talking about?
+Star Brom hahahahahaha
So I'm not the only Morton Feldman / Gilbert Gottfried fan
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Wow, thanks. Wish there would be video interviews, but this is a wonderful substitute.
The interviewer is very good. Who is it?
shere nonsense
The interviewer is called Alban Berg
'The thread creates a veil between you and the sound ..... '
Bien !! dice el sr Mahler , solo la musica puede salvarme ahora. Quiero agregar la felicidad propia y la de los otros ,que como otra musica son una sanacion para nuestras almas ., bellisima letania !!! thank you George !!!
awesome
thank you so much !
Among the best thinkers and composers of the 20th C.
You can hear Morton light up a cigarette every 7 min.
it's a great album, thanks for uploading!