Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Form Finding - Sound Finding

Further inspiration from the Southbank Centre in this quote from Morton Feldman. His sound finding ==> my form finding (see previous posts of August, September and October 2013): simply replace the word 'sounds' with 'forms':

" Morton Feldman: Patterns in a Chromatic Field for cello & piano
Morton Feldman's epic Patterns in a Chromatic Field is widely acknowledged as one of his finest late compositions. It is profound, enthralling and infused with a melancholic feeling of departure.

Feldman wrote, 'I feel that I listen to my sounds, and I do what they tell me, not what I tell them. Because I owe my life to these sounds.' "