At the same time, these guidelines, along with his fragmenting orchestration, prevents any hierarchy of sound… …Just as the painters moved away from realistic aspects of painting, Feldman obliterated conventional musical gesture in his work, primarily by eliminating traditional hierarchies. …When Feldman created graphic scores he avoided repetition in order to prevent any sound or group of sound from being too firmly entrenched in our aural memory, again negating those traditional hierarchies…
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