Morton Feldman - For Bunita Marcus (1985)

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Morton Feldman - For Bunita Marcus (1985)

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didierdada

11 жыл бұрын

for piano solo
Live at home in Marseille, July 3, 2005
"par un amateur"

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@rcoldman 6 жыл бұрын

I love this! To the 4 people who thumbs-downed this performance of this piece, I'd say go listen to something that suits your musicality. Don't waste your time trying to listen to music of this caliber.

@litbyrequest7348 29 күн бұрын

Duly unforgettable. This is the sonic equivalent of watching icebergs melt at night.

@gnikcohs 9 жыл бұрын

Feldman has found a kind of perfect timing to allow musical tones to simply be their beautiful selves and for us to experience them as deep mysterious entities. The graphic is a Brice Marden drawing which I think is the case of another artist trying to integrate the beauties of the calligraphies of the East into Western art. Even if it can never be entirely successful he's made a good job of it.

@gnikcohs 3 жыл бұрын

@Jeff Sylvester Sorry, I don't know. But it doesn't sound very prepared to me.

@gnikcohs 3 жыл бұрын

@Jeff Sylvester This was written 2 years before his death and he was a well known composer. But the recording system made it possible for composers to get their work into distribution without premieres and concerts. I don't know the history of this piece. I have to believe if it used prepared piano it would have been mentioned by someone, for example Hamelin. I don't pretend to be knowledgeable about the nuts and bolts of music so I hardly know what Feldman means by the following, but here it is anyway. "For me, rhythm doesn’t exist. I would rather use the term “rhythmicize.” I started to get interested in metre; for me, at the moment when you use it, it implies the question, “How do I get beyond the bar-lines?” I wrote down 4/4, left a little space, drew a bar-line and then I wrote over that bar-line. “The black hole of metre,” because some people shouldn’t come too close to the bar-line - there is a lot of music where the style tends to pull it across the bar-line. For Bunita Marcus mainly consists of 3/8, 5/16 and 2/2 bars. Sometimes the 2/2 had musical importance, like at the end of the piece. Sometimes the 2/2 acts as quiet, either on the right or the left or in the middle of a 3/8 or a 5/16 bar, and I used the metre as a construction - not the rhythm - the metre and the time, the duration which something needs. What finally interested me were the “development sections,” where I was using mixed-metre. It went 2/2, 3/4, 5/8 … so I used metre up to a certain point as a period of instability. I didn’t consider it a development section where I - I can’t find a better expression - developed the metre. Then, like every other composer, I thought, how much change is possible in this grid? And I said; accelerate it or slow it down. But I couldn’t make a definitive plan - that wouldn’t work. It can only work if you go along with the material and see how it is turning out."

@gnikcohs 3 жыл бұрын

@Jeff Sylvester You're welcome

@jamgjamg2807 Жыл бұрын

in your house and amateur? LIKE professional, its amazing

@alanburns538 10 жыл бұрын

Wonderful performance! I'm just discovering Feldman's works. I love how you can hear page-turning of the sheet music in this recording, it adds an extra intimacy, like you are sitting right next to the pianist.

@didierdada 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks ! I'm glad to share this intimacy.

@massimodemajo 3 жыл бұрын

beautiful. thank you very much!

@litbyrequest7348 29 күн бұрын

Duly unforgettable. This is the sonic equivalent of watching icebergs melt at night.

@mallinen0777 Жыл бұрын

Well done. Thank You.

@krismariasy9728 5 жыл бұрын

I love the abrupt cut-off and piano lid close.

@corrugateddesigner 2 жыл бұрын

This is transcendental in the best possible way. The composition is very aware of the tempered piano, sostenuto, etc.; the performance even more so. Thank you.

@armara70 10 жыл бұрын

Feldman deserves to be as well known as Cage.

@didierdada 10 жыл бұрын

It doesn't matter if he's not so famous, his marvelous music exist, that's the main thing...

@reverendbryan 7 жыл бұрын

I think Morton's reputation is the equal of John's to those who appreciate this type of music and research. A fine performance here as well. Many thanks.

@rogerantonybennett5272 4 жыл бұрын

MORTON FELDMAN is a much more enjoyable composer than Cage, and I really enjoy the prepared piano works of Cage immensely. I don't know what ALAN HOVHANESS thought of Morton Feldman's music, but I do know......

@DavidA-ps1qr 4 жыл бұрын

No, he should have been kept in one.

@rogerantonybennett5272 4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidA-ps1qr - KZfaq allerted me to this awful comment !! Morty's Sonic Realm will soon engulf you..... !

@wilhelmmatthies5921 9 жыл бұрын

a great choice of a painting to parallel with this piece didierdada. Structures that float and slide over each other, expand and contract...

@jackgalmitz1883 6 жыл бұрын

Bryce Marden "On Cold Mountain"

@feline1973 7 жыл бұрын

what a tune :)

@manroit 7 жыл бұрын

For Bunita Marcus was premiered by my friend Aki Takahashi, a japanese piano player, in 2010 she premiered my piano and electronics work Ashimakase, 10 minutes as an openinf to this wonderfull piece, it was an honor to open the concert for Feldman, one of my favourite composers, if any one is interested here is the link for Ashimakase soundcloud.com/artesonico/ashimakase

@noragoldberg-allen999 10 жыл бұрын

Lovely

@noragoldberg-allen999 10 жыл бұрын

Lovely x

@didierdada 10 жыл бұрын

thanks

@machida5114 2 жыл бұрын

so good...

@didierdada 11 жыл бұрын

thanks !

@FangYaGe 9 жыл бұрын

so you performed this yourself?fantastic, very well done!i've been thinking of playing this one, myselfi did a performance of palais de mari a few months ago, and it was very well received

@didierdasilva1653 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks ! Palais de mari is a splendor too...

@shakeerr 11 жыл бұрын

nice work!

@ixenakis 8 жыл бұрын

time as metaphoer  great alubum

@MegaCirse 6 жыл бұрын

spelling to see again! .................. ;-)

@rogerantonybennett5272 4 жыл бұрын

@@MegaCirse - Ars Aluminum

@user-ob9zo9cr4c Жыл бұрын

best

@MrInterestingthings 3 жыл бұрын

One has to ask after reading Feldman : much thought and reflexion but outside of the concert hall who will digest or take the time to listen to one hour , 90 minute and 2 hour pieces . I've forgotten Feldman's explanation on this point . His jewish jokes tell us a lot . He did what he wanted it was maybe a way too to carve out a space for himself alongside Cage, Carter, Babbit , Earle Brown and others . I d k .

@darylcumming7119 2 жыл бұрын

🙂

@rogerantonybennett5272 4 жыл бұрын

@MrInterestingthings 3 жыл бұрын

I love Feldman's masterclass transcripts . Poor kids what did they take away with all his joking . Jewish octaves ...hilarious !

@arrancrawford7817 2 жыл бұрын

What is the image used in this video?

@contemporaryart6752 8 жыл бұрын

May I ask about the painting, who is the painter?

@Likethecowjumpedover 7 жыл бұрын

Brice Marden

@contemporaryart6752 7 жыл бұрын

yes i searched and been able to know thank you :)

@Likethecowjumpedover 7 жыл бұрын

It's a very good painter. Best wishes to you

@darylcumming7119 2 жыл бұрын

Brice Marden image.

@emanuel_soundtrack 4 жыл бұрын

he alloweed any composer to compose acadfemic acceptable music

@MegaCirse 6 жыл бұрын

It is quite shallow, not at all evocative and just makes me think of the foam of soft waves under a sky dumb and sooty! Structures that float and slide over each other, expand and contract in vain peristaltic movements ! However, this poses an interesting idea, as to reinterpret the silence as a 'inter-pitch fill', a a meaningful musical element that occurs when all sounds cease. The musician not only plans the duration and rhythms of sounds but the rhythms and duration of silence, to compose with rests in mind. In this case, the idea reinterprets the silence not as a 'physical silence', but as a 'notation silence', not a literal silence but a figurative silence.

@markpx 5 жыл бұрын

I don't think Feldman is trying to be evocative of anythign so crude as ocean waves, etc. He's exploring structures of memory, lingering correspondances and deflections, neural stimuli that arise and diffuse without settling into fixed ideas, contemplations that bring about a state of passive alertness, etc. The silence idea you describe can be heard in the compositions of Feldman's friend and contemporary Christian Wolff.

@rogerantonybennett5272 4 жыл бұрын

Write on...

@docsketchy 5 жыл бұрын

More typical late Feldman. I've been surveying his music for a while now, and reading some of the books about him (8th Street, MF Says, Music of..., etc). The thing that interests me about Feldman is that this is the first "classical" music I've heard where I have thought, "I could have composed that." Indeed, this music is inspiring me to write some things myself. I really appreciate his intuitive, non-systematic approach. It basically negates the whole question of "artistic value" (by admitting up front that none is expected or demanded). Concerning the whole "me too" aspect of the Feldman/Bunita Marcus relationship, it is indeed regrettable. Who's going to be outed next? Every time I listen to music, now, I always think, "Gosh, I wonder who this composer abused?" It's all becoming quite tiresome. I just wish that men would behave more honourably.

@rogerantonybennett5272 4 жыл бұрын

Is Bunita Marcus a problem ? Feldman was often an unwanted name-dropper..... Nonetheless the music is fine.

@capxav726 3 жыл бұрын

Le piano semble mal accordé, dommage...

@stevehahn7064 7 жыл бұрын

piano is out of tune!

@MarcusHK1 5 жыл бұрын

The pianist may have chosen to play Feldman to get away with that more easily.

@cbklang4857 5 жыл бұрын

Morty loved to play pianos out of tune. No problem.

@marcosblanco7052 5 жыл бұрын

Fortunately

@josephcarlbreil5380 5 жыл бұрын

It's supposed to be.

@mattisyrtos5434 3 жыл бұрын

He doesn't know how to play the piano ...

@transcendentalgrunkle2898 3 ай бұрын

All abstract art regardless is the product of years/decades of "training" with "conventional" methods. Feldman studied piano since he was a toddler and learned from/with some of the most notable composers during his time.

@reveli 8 жыл бұрын

Feldman is tentative and, hence, gutless.

@mcevoycampbell3273 8 жыл бұрын

hence?

@brendavananna9117 7 жыл бұрын

In an Italian interview, Bunita Marcus accuses her mentor Morton Feldman of sexually molesting her and other women, wrecking her marriage and stealing her ideas. The two composers worked closely together for seven years until Feldman’s early death in 1987. Feldman’s work is widely performed, Marcus’s less so.

@marquitosbosteroo 7 жыл бұрын

Brenda Vananna ah

@mike8015 7 жыл бұрын

yikes

@MegaCirse 6 жыл бұрын

We bang her against the sink !!!