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Love is the most powerful passion 💘

Wonderful quote from Terry Riley; “What becomes apparent on listening to an amplified well-tuned drone that La Monte has sculpted is a molecular world of sounds whose workings are ordinarily covered up by fancy rhythmic and melodic footwork. As the listener allows himself or herself to be drawn deeper into the sound, he or she becomes more and more astounded at all the elements that are functioning naturally without the aid of normal manipulation or musical performance... We enter with him here into the world of the sonic microcosm, where an interval becomes a landscape, each detail illuminated.”

It seems that we have the same musical tastes. I didn't know Christian Mason and it has been a revelation thanks

I'm fascinated by your artwork, which seems almost uncannily to mirror the music itself. Any interest in applying your talents to this one? ruclips.net/video/GgF6fFm_fuI/видео.htmlsi=WBN2JjReIjwr9-p1

This sounds like a different piece altogether from the Hildegard Kleeb version that I've been listening to. This is way more energetic.

plebs in the comments🤓: "its just a bunch of dissonance and sparse arrangements that make no sense REEEEEEEE!!!!!!!" based joker-pilled patricians😎: "...you wouldn't get it... "

Great

This reminds me to Cities Skylines OSTs, good.

@not looking for New England you make your accompanying videos yourself, correct? I really love this one. Adds an interesting dimension to the music and is really creatively done. Very nice work.

Woke up at 4 am to listen to this: I’ll be updating my experience. 1:00:33 Damn! At first I was a little sleepy and skeptical but this really is very beautiful. There’s something about the repetitions and the quiet playing that makes me feel like this is some kind of musical “silence”. I feel lonely, really lonely right now. But not in a bad way… First hour done and yet it feels like nothing is moving. For someone who likes maximalists like Mahler this is on a whole new level. 2:00:44 Sun is out already, my thoughts wander from time to time but I try to keep my focus on the music. I cannot describe listening to this as other thing than religious, I don’t know if that was Feldman’s intention. 3:04:24 I find the most difficult thing about listening to this to be that the mind automatically will try to put the music in the background and distract you with other stuff. I suddenly catch myself not paying as much attention as before because I’m listening thinking on this or that. We find repetitions boring, but why? When I strip myself away of that concept I suddenly find every repetition as more powerful than before. 3:40:14 The world around me is starting to move and that’s annoying. All the quietness of the night is now replaced with street noise. Really makes you think about how much sound pollution we live in. Now I’ll have to cope with it and focus even harder to try to ignore everything in the background. 4:00:14 The quartet has reached its most beautiful point until now. The secrets hidden within this massive world of sounds are a testament to the genius of Morton Feldman 5:01:48 Gorgeous… 5:02:44 Heading for the final minutes (structurally this actually sound like he’s heading for the finale after the long adagio). This has been so much better than I first thought, definitely one of my favorite modern pieces (although I will not be listening to it very often…) While it might be true that music is the art of sounds, I think it is even deeper than that. Music is the art of time. But what is time? Is it real? We know that time do passes, but all the measurements we have for it are artificial. We hold pass and future as things that exists when they actually don’t and the present is a sort of Schrödinger cat thing that is and isn’t there at the same time. I think very few pieces explore time the way this quarter by Feldman does, and that’s what makes it a masterpiece. In the long scheme of things, what matters the structure? It’s futile to try to write, say a sonata, with this amount of length, so one can only trust on repetitions to give the piece a sense of cohesion. But then those repetitions force you to look deeper into the music, not into it as a whole in time, but into every single note as an eternal present that is paradoxically also instantaneous. We have it all and yet we don’t, everything is given and taken from us at the same time. When the piece reaches its end, you kind of intuitively know it, and those silences at the end have more weight than any massive finale, those are the most silent of all silences, and therefore also the loudest of silences, the more substantial. And after each silence you expect to hear something else, and you hear it, and then you expect to hear something else again and so on, until you eventually don’t. As Marcus Aurelius sort of said in his meditations “whether you live 30 o 30 thousand years, the moment of your death is still the same as for everyone else” (or something like that). Everything ends, wether it lasts 5 minutes or more than 5 hours. Thanks for posting this quartet and I hope more people will find it as beautiful as I did.

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I'll have to play this piece for the day I have to milk all of our cows. That way I can make sure to squeeze EVERY note out of EVERY utter. The entire piece could become an utterance do a hard day's milking.

Some sequences remind me of ‘In C’ which is funny because Riley has said that piece of his felt like ‘the music of heaven’. Cool to see these themes showing up on Jacob’s Ladder. Thanks for sharing this, been wanting to hear this one. Really, really love your visual as well.

I managed 20 mins.

Thats a really well-recorded version. I am imagining just offscreen to the right there is a bird sitting on the line...

Brilliant

one of my favorite songs

Great to see Richard here!

Quizás si hubiera probado con una luz verde

Demasiado bello para ser real

Thank you for posting this.

Qui était Roger Tessier? 1973, L'Itinéraire, c'étais la commencement de la musique spectrale pendant ces années.

The dababy influence is crazy

A song of my youth. From a time before screens and smart devices. I think I still have this song on a minidisc somewhere, that I recorded from a late night radio program. Thank you for uploading.

Love this piece. Thank you for posting it.

0:23 - 2:50 static, dynamic variation (page 3, line 2) 2:51 - 3:34 pizz., faster horizontal, same dynamics (page 3, line 3) 3:35 - 4:26 arco, static vertical, interrupted by 2 bars sustained notes, dynamic variation (page 5, line 1) 4:29 - 6:26 harmonics, rhythmic variation, same dynamics (page 5, line 2) 6:30 - 7:59 similar characteristics to the part before, Viola plays sul tasto (page 5, line 3) 8:01 - 9:32 similar to before, Va. plays ord., artifical harmonics (page 6, line 1) 9:35

Awesome to know you dig Threadgill!

This is only made for music nerds that think they have a music iq but in reality their music will put most people to sleep.

Great.

better than Rothko Chapel and some of (((his))) other garbage. But not much better

excellent background noise for removing files from my computer.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Das Veilchen Ein Veilchen auf der Wiese stand Gebückt in sich und unbekannt; Es war ein herzigs Veilchen. Da kam eine junge Schäferin, Mit leichtem Schritt und munterm Sinn, Daher, daher, Die Wiese her, und sang. Ach! denkt das Veilchen, wär ich nur Die schönste Blume der Natur, Ach, nur ein kleines Weilchen, Bis mich das Liebchen abgepflückt Und an dem Busen matt gedrückt! Ach nur, ach nur Ein Viertelstündchen lang! Ach! Aber ach! Das Mädchen kam Und nicht in acht das Veilchen nahm, Ertrat das arme Veilchen. Es sank und starb und freut' sich noch: Und sterb ich denn, so sterb ich doch Durch sie, durch sie, Zu ihren Füßen doch.

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Joa, klingt schon n bisschen verstörend...

It is unbelievable how some people treat this piece only by perspective of duration - the least meaningfull value in music! Absolutely out-standing work! I am listening to it for second time and I love it even more. Some people say that 5 and half hours is too much for a human being. Well, in my case hours were lasting like minutes!

Putting Ads in th middle of a Morton Feldman piece should be illegal

Who did the visuals?

That alot of people do enjoy this piece makes me ponder on what music is. 🤔

Composer's notes: "The entire text for the piece is from Genesis 28:12. At first thought, a musical equivalent to a ladder might well be a scale or mode. The messengers (the Hebrew word also means angels) ascending and descending then become notes on that scale or mode. Of course, one sometimes only goes up a few rungs to reach something and then descends, or perhaps climbs higher, pauses, and then descends pausing at each rung on the way down. Finally, it becomes clear that metaphorically any melodic musical movement on a scale or mode is included in this dream of ascending and descending a ladder between heaven and earth. Jacob’s Ladder is in four sections as suggested by the division of the text above. At first these four sections are presented briefly and then each is expanded and developed. Probably as a result of thinking of the ‘notes as messengers’ I ended up with a little more than half the music purely instrumental. The voices return at length, however, in the final section, ascending and descending and, at the end, again, ascending."

thanks so much for posting this

Why haven't I heard of this until 1 minute ago ? I guess it doesn't matter. I have it now !! Thank You ✌❤

This channel is like a Continuing Education course in contemporary art music for me.

nice work-- I got lost in the flowers and the focus music saved my life

Who did the visuals? Fantastic too!

I think you're beginning to ramble - 58:40

Masonic Temple !! K Jarrett is of that obedience ?

Llegué aquí porque a Stravinsky le gustaba la música de este compositor, hasta trabó amistad con él, según leo en el libro de Robert Craft

So good

a more glittery glimmering version of a morton feldman piece. is it fair to say mr adams picks up where feldman left off?