Scores: Between 1950 and 1970: Morton Feldman, In Search of an Orchestration

these irreducible images that can't be analyzed, only listened to, were partly suggested by the slowly shifting shapes in Alexander Calder's mobiles. Other qualities come straight from the canvas: The painterly application of touches of sound to an ineluctably flat aural plane. The length of his late works, two to six hours nonstop, intended to entice you to live with the music the way you live with a painting on your wall, slowly acclimatizing yourself to its implied universe. 2 of 3

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