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	Morton Feldman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morton Feldman (born January 12, 1926, died September 3, 1987) was an American composer.
		Feldman's experiments with the use of chance in his composition in turn inspired John Cage to write pieces like the Music of Changes, where the notes to be played are determined by consulting the I Ching.
		In 1973, Feldman became the Edgard Varese Professor at the University at Buffalo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morton_Feldman (591 words)

	Morton Feldman: Patterns in a Chromatic Field: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The late Morton Feldman's quiet, sparse compositions manipulate the most basic facets of human existence-- heartbeat and breath, environment, repetition, the progression of time-- with such breadth and subtlety that it seems impossible such transformative music should fit on the small physical object of a CD.
		Feldman's music has been called, by respectable critics, "boring." The most pared-down exercises in his theories can indeed take a large effort of will to enjoy, casting their atonal meditative glow at the expense of the modern attention span.
		The tableau in which Feldman is most fondly remembered by friends and students consists of him sitting quietly at the piano, letting loose gentle clusters of notes until each faded entirely, with a cigar hanging from his mouth and the ash gradually collecting on his lap.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/f/feldman_morton/patterns-in-a-chromatic-field.shtml (729 words)

	microsuoni: Morton Feldman
		This period of time marks the beginning of Feldman's "graph music", so named because it was written on graph paper, but also because it is part of a larger movement in 20th century music during which music notation departed from the traditional staff notation and began to incorporate a great deal of graphic symbols.
		Morton Feldman's own words are simply as valuable for the composer than for the interpreter.
		Feldman was especially fond of Aki's playing, so much so that he had selected certain works particularly for her.
	www.microsuoni.com /artists/feldman.morton.html (1185 words)

	Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By the time Feldman composed this piece, he was deeply committed to extended works--chamber pieces that could telescope motifs and worry their tonality so that it warbled between hauntingly atonal and familiarly tonal singing.
		Feldman makes you listen hard, by the very refinement of what he is doing; pitches or notes you might have taken for granted now stand revealed as new-minted.
		Feldman, never at the loss for a paradoxical sound-bite is quoted in the booklet as saying "All I ask is that composers wash out their ears before they sit down to compose".
	www.freeglossary.com /p:B000005J27 (1146 words)

	Morton Feldman's Coptic Light
		Morton Feldman is a paradigmatic case of a composer who freed himself from the musical dilemmas of his day by learning from another art form.
		Feldman circumvented this limited either/or situation via an attention to musical surface, informed by years of association with the abstract expressionist painters.
		Feldman was an avid collector of Middle Eastern rugs, and frequently based his compositional techniques on their asymmetrical patterns.
	www.americansymphony.org /dialogues_extensions/2002_03season/2002_11_17/feldman.cfm (552 words)

	EMF Media Morton Feldman
		Morton Feldman was born in New York on January 12, 1926.
		Feldman was composing short Scriabin-esque pieces until, in 1941, he began to study composition with Wallingford Riegger.
		Feldman's friends during the 1950s in New York included composers Earle Brown and Christian Wolff; painters Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Rauschenberg; and pianist David Tudor.
	www.emfmedia.org /artists/feldman.html (423 words)

	U B U W E B :: Morton Feldman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This first of a three part conversation between John Cage and Morton Feldman was recorded at WBAI in New York between October 18-25, 1967.
		Cage and Feldman look at how everyday tasks such as correpsondence are affected by the artist's desire to not disappoint the public once the public has recognized the artist.
		The third and final conversation between John Cage and Morton Feldman was recorded at WBAI in New York in October 1967.
	www.ubu.com /sound/feldman.html (534 words)

	Beckett - Music: Morton Feldman
		Not only are Feldman's timeless, repetitive compositions often evocative of Beckett's minimalist prose, but a meeting in Berlin, 1976, lead to a warm relationship between the composer and the writer, one that bore fruit in several projects and collaborations.
		Feldman, however, grew dissatisfied for a different reason -- he was unhappy with the amount of improvisation allowed the musicians, and in the late Sixties he returned to more precise forms of notation, usually permitting indeterminacy to occur only with respect to duration.
		Morton Feldman accepted the Edgard Varèse chair at the University of New York at Buffalo in 1973, a position he held until his death.
	www.themodernword.com /beckett/beckett_feldman.html (1424 words)

	Hyphen Press titles: Morton Feldman says
		Feldman is now widely recognized, alongside John Cage and Edgard Varèse, as one of the foremost American composers of the twentieth century.
		Morton Feldman says can also be enjoyed for the pleasure that Feldman’s words offer, and for the illumination that they give to anyone who is making work in art or design.
		Morton Feldman says features 21 interviews and notes on conversations spanning 23 years of Feldman’s life, including conversations with Gavin Bryars, Kevin Volans, and Walter Zimmermann, as well as transcriptions of four Feldman’s lectures, held in Toronto (1982), Johannesburg (1983), and Darmstadt (1984).
	www.hyphenpress.co.uk /titles/morton_feldman/synopsis.html (240 words)

	Morton Feldman - Wikipedia
		Morton Feldman war einer der Pioniere der graphischen Notation.
		Durch die Begegnung und den Gedankenaustausch mit John Cage bekam Feldman u.A. mehr Vertrauen zu seinen eigenen Ideen.
		Zu Feldmans Freunden in New York zählten auch der Komponist Christian Wolff und die Maler Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Franz Kline und Robert Rauschenberg.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morton_Feldman (372 words)

	Morton FELDMAN
		MORTON FELDMAN werd geboren in Brooklyn in 1926.
		Feldman ontmoette Cage voor het eerst in 1949.
		Feldmans werken zijn uniek in hun genre en onderscheiden zich door hun stille en heldere klank en hun uitgebreide tijdsschaal (negen van zijn werken duren meer dan anderhalf uur.) Hij overleed in New York in 1987.
	www.logosfoundation.org /kursus/9634.html (751 words)

	CP2 102 Morton Feldman & Artur Schnabel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The image of this legendary rug remained with Feldman throughout the composition, inspiring the isolated "gems" of sound, the translucent, interwoven harmonic timbres, and suggesting the form of thework.
		It is Feldman’s ear which reveals the form — scanning as an eye would scan a carpet — first a close focus on one pattern, then on another; then a wide-angle view of two patterns at once.
		Feldman has flattened the three-dimensional questions/answer exchange into two dimensions whose frozen imagery is suspended in an eerie equilibrium not unlike the figures of a Piero della Francesco fresco.
	www.musicalobservations.com /recordings/cp2_102.html (933 words)

	MORTON FELDMAN: LA MÚSICA Y EL EXPRESIONISMO ABSTRACTO NORTEAMERICANO. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		La música de Morton Feldman (1), que empieza a poder escucharse en España (2) es peculiar desde muchos puntos de vista.
		Morton Feldman era un apasionado coleccionista de tapices orientales, en los que encontraba una fuente de inspiración para su música: "Cuando compongo, pienso en los colores de un tapiz y en una especie de coloración microcromática total.
		Morton Feldman dijo en una ocasión que esa era su manera de que no hubiera interpretación sino sólo emisión de sonido.
	www.acteon.es /czulian/morton_feldman.htm (2410 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Morton Feldman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Feldman was composing at this time, but in a style very different to that he would later be associated with.
		Zu Feldmans Freunden in New York zählten auch der Komponist Christian Wolff und die Maler Jackson Pollock und Robert Rauschenberg.
		Morton Feldman war einer der Pioniere der graphischen Notation, weil diese dem Interpreten jedoch zuviel Freiheiten lies verwarf er sie selber wieder.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Morton-Feldman (1463 words)

	New Albion Artists: Morton Feldman
		Cage was instrumental in encouraging Feldman to have confidence in his instincts, which resulted in totally intuitive compositions.
		Because thee works relied so heavily on improvisation Feldman was not happy with the freedom permitted to the performer, and so abandoned graph notation between 1953 and 1958.
		In June 1987 Morton Feldman married the composer Barbara Monk.
	www.newalbion.com /artists/feldmanm (710 words)

	Beckett - Music: Morton Feldman's "Neither"
		Feldman's music is difficult to analyze, but lends itself readily to colorful description, and this dramatic work in particular is filled with astonishing passages that evoke numerous visions -- machines churning away in the subterranean depths, interstellar spaces haunted by distant sirens, wheels within wheels grinding down time and space in slow revolutions.
		Yet Feldman was aware from the beginning that this was to be a different kind of formal experience, and in fact began composing the score before he had seen the text, which was provided specifically for this setting by Beckett.
		Feldman once acknowledged that, in this way, the music for Neither hovers in between what was, for him, a personal style (the "impenetrable self") and an impersonal style (The "impenterable unself."), as can be heard in the alternating episodes ("to and fro") of static chords (at times thinned out to single notes) and flowing melody.
	www.themodernword.com /beckett/beckett_feldman_neither.html (4260 words)

	Geometry.Net - Composers: Feldman Morton
		Morton Feldman (born January 12, died September 3) was an American composer.
		Extractions: Morton Feldman The Music Library of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York possesses a substantial amount of material related to the life and career of Morton Feldman (on the faculty at the University 1972-1987).
		Feldman then discusses the contemporary music scene that he grew up in, during the 1940s when there was a distinct absence of experimental music being presented.
	www.geometry.net /composers/feldman_morton.php (1289 words)

	Morton A. Feldman: the Silent Magician
		THE SILENT MAGICIAN, MORTON A. Morton A. Feldman is a deaf magician.
		Morton is known as The Silent Magician, but is known far and wide as "Morty" by his many fans and followers - young and old alike - faithful to him for more than 50 years.
		Morton was a member of the Junior Yogi Magic Club and is now an active member of The Society of American Magicians, International Brotherhood of Magicians, The World of Deaf Magicians and The Society of USA Deaf Magicians (of which he is a past Treasurer).
	www.mortsmagic.com (225 words)

	Morton Feldman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Through Cage, Feldman met many other prominent figures in the New York arts scene, among them Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston and Frank O'Hara.
		He found inspiration in the paintings of the abstract expressionists, and though the 1970s wrote a number of pieces around twenty-minutes in length, including Rothko Chapel (1971, written for the building of the same name which houses paintings by Mark Rothko) and For Frank O'Hara (1973).
		UPPER DARBY, PA Guns, knives, and swords confiscated by Upper Darby Township police are headed from police headquarters to a fiery furnace at a Delaware steel plant.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Morton_Feldman.html (1433 words)

	Amazon.com: Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel; Why Patterns?: Music: Morton Feldman,California EAR Unit,William ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Morton Feldmann: For Samuel Beckett ~ Morton Feldman
		Feldman: Piano and Orchestra; Flute and Orchestra; Oboe and Orchestra; Cello and Orchestra ~ Morton Feldman
		Feldman, a friend of the painter Rothko, constructed this tribute in four sections as "an immobile procession not unlike the friezes on Greek temples," to accompany the Houston exhibit of 14 canvasses in 1972.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000R2Z?v=glance (1493 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Morton Feldman *
		Feldman’s world of long durations, overlapping tones, and elusive harmonies is one that stills the listener, leading her gently away from the noise, speed, and pressure of daily life into a world of sonic secrets.
		As always in late Feldman, pitches shift slowly, at times almost imperceptibly, creating a hypnotic effect akin to gazing at the reflection of the sun on the nearly still surface of a pond.
		Feldman was one of the true geniuses of new music, and this lovely recording presents one of his finest works in vivid sonic detail with a masterful performance.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/659 (503 words)

	Morton Feldman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1949, Feldman met John Cage and developed an artistic association crucial to music in America in the 1950s.
		The painters in particular influenced Feldman to search for his own sound world, one that was more immediate and more physical than any Feldman had explored before.
		Feldman developed a graph notation form of music which relied heavily on player improvisation.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/mortonfeldman.html (350 words)

	Morton Feldman: for Philip Guston (1984) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Feldman, who died in 1987, had also befriended a number of New York art world luminaries and the painter Philip Guston was one.
		That listening to Feldman was akin to holding up an object, like a crystal, to the light and examining it from several angles for an extended time.
		Feldman makes you listen hard, by the very refinement of what he is doing; pitches or notes you might have take...
	www.freeglossary.com /p:B000003GK0 (645 words)

	Morton Feldman : Atlantis: Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester, Frankfurt - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They provide evidence en masse that Feldman's method -- as developed from his early graphic notation style to his composition by intuitive assemblage in the middle years to his absolute control over every timbre (while granting the performer and intuitive energy of interpretation) in his late works -- worked in any compositional or performance context.
		Feldman created a dramatic element that allowed for the soloist's phraseology to reflect the score from his own sense of tone and breath, whereas the orchestra followed the composer's notion of pitch to the letter.
		Hat has done its typically excellent job in its selection of performers and in its manner of recording, giving Feldman's work state-of-the-art treatment and, for now at least, a definitive recording of three obscure works by an under-celebrated 20th century master.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1044701,00.html (529 words)

	Photo Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Feldman and David Sussman at the Parc Güell, Barcelona, February, 1974, photograph by P. Gena.
		Feldman with Mel Powell (l to r: Philip Lorenz, Ena Barton, Powell, Gena and Feldman), at a party after a concert of Powell's music at CSU, Fresno, April, 1975.
		Feldman and Powell (l to r: Philip Lorenz, Ena Barton, Powell, and Feldman), at a party after a concert of Powell's music at CSU, Fresno, April, 1975.
	www.artic.edu /~pgena/photos.html (696 words)

	morton feldman Texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Morton Feldman (and Crippled Symmetry): Notes written by John Rockwell to accompany the CD recording of "Crippled Symmetry" by the California EAR Unit on the Bridge Records label (BRIDGE 9092A/B).
		Morton Feldman e l'Espressionismo astratto: An essay (in Italian) by Gianmario Borio which originally appeared in the anthology Itinerari della musica americana edited by Gianmario Borio and Gabrio Taglietti (Lucca: una cosa rara-Lim, 1996).
		Feldman on Feldman: A transcription by composer Rüdiger Meyer of a lecture Feldman gave at the South African Broadcasting Corporation, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, in August 1983.
	www.cnvill.demon.co.uk /mftexts.htm (4015 words)

	Morton Feldman/Ives Ensemble: String Quartet II: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Feldman fans have been waiting for a recording of String Quartet II since Feldman wrote it eighteen years ago.
		One of Feldman's agendas was to turn time into space: to make time feel not like a line, but like a landscape that the listener has dropped into.
		Feldman specifies many tonal colors that the musicians go to pains to reproduce accurately and engagingly.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/f/feldman_morton/string-quartet-ii.shtml (728 words)

	Amazon.com: Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman: Books: Morton Feldman,B. H. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Together with John Cage, Feldman is the principal representative of the New York School of composers, a group of American avant-gardists who in the 1950s and 1960s challenged the European music establishment with their use of graphic scores, chance techniques, and indeterminate compositions.
		Feldman's understanding of the need for a specifically US artistic and musical tradition--and how this tradition came about--is particularly illuminating, as is his writing about his colleague and friend John Cage.
		Feldman's writing style is clear and conversational--if it occasionally lacks in depth this is a minor sin in comparison to the wilfully obfuscatory writings of the young Boulez, for example.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1878972316?v=glance (1531 words)

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