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I've been listening to Morton Feldman's Second String Quartet over the last month. I still can't make up my mind. ekmeles captures some of that experience while listening to another work by the composer:
Even at the recent performance of Feldman’s For Samuel Beckett - which I found incredibly beautiful – moments of frustration set in, full of awareness of my thoughts and surroundings, rather than the music.
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I generally feel that way with those long Feldman pieces; they stretch and cycle forever in all those permutations tha you are forced to examine what's around you. I once listened to For Philip Guston in its entirety at work and found myself examining every corner of the room and item on my desk with mcroscopic focus. If I ever become a crime scene investigator, I'm putting that piece on my ipod.
In a way, he achieves the aims of Cage's "silence" - observing the world around you - better than Cage's music does.
Posted by: Alex V. Cook | March 08, 2011 at 06:10 AM