A really important document - so wonderful to see Mortan Feldman actually living and breathing and taking. Only ever heard an audio interview with him.
I wish that the filmmaker would have spent more time getting to know their equipment. The audio is not great, but it is ok for headphones. One thing future filmmakers need to learn is to make sure you ALWAYS have your audio correct. If not, you might as well toss the film in the trash. I'm glad someone recorded this, but they really could have done so much better for such an important documentation.
maybe at the time the guy didnt now how important it was. Why give attention to whom dont care so much about your attention with 5 hrs string quartet ;)
I think that what bothers me most about morton feldman is that he was far too greatly impressed with himself. I rather like some of his music, but to me he was an amateur with a smattering of talent. In the company of other composers, whether it was xenakis or carter, for example, he fails to realize that he’s just not in their league.
You are quite wrong, I think. He and Xenakis were is some sense both naives, their work sometimes dismissed by more academically trained composers who did not respect their extraordinary independence. Carter and Feldman, though stylistically opposite were both iconoclasts. Feldman always sounds like music. Carter and Xenakis rather push that boundary, in my opinion.
That's exactly how composers like Cage or Feldman were perceived during their lives - amateurs with zero ability to compose "proper, serious, academic music". The only strange thing here is that you still think the same way in 2021. In his book Morton touches upon this exact subject. He was never impressed with himself (a Kierkegaard believer), being just a very talkative person.
WOW fascinating. Wish it was easier to hear
very special! thanks for the upload!
The audio could be extracted so it can be improved and then merged again with the video
Amazing man, amazing music. He's like the Jack Nicholson of composing.
A really important document - so wonderful to see Mortan Feldman actually living and breathing and taking. Only ever heard an audio interview with him.
I'm not so sure about Morton's 'breathing' with that cigarette about.
A lot of thanks Ricardo!
Wonderful - Thank you!
Is there an audio document of this with improved audio quality?
I wish that the filmmaker would have spent more time getting to know their equipment. The audio is not great, but it is ok for headphones. One thing future filmmakers need to learn is to make sure you ALWAYS have your audio correct. If not, you might as well toss the film in the trash. I'm glad someone recorded this, but they really could have done so much better for such an important documentation.
maybe at the time the guy didnt now how important it was. Why give attention to whom dont care so much about your attention with 5 hrs string quartet ;)
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@@emanuel_soundtrack It's possible some AI might clean it up
edited transcription of this conversation is here:
ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/music/xenakisFeldman.pdf
Thx - but this link doesn’t work - probably a typo ??
@@SebastianGramsss preparedguitar.blogspot.com/2016/01/morton-feldman-and-iannis-xenakis-in.html
You messed the whole thing with very bad sound
looks like one of those locker rooms at a big water park on a beautiful summer day
By the end, the woman who asks Xenakis a question is Bunita Marcus, isn't she?
amazing document. I never seen Feldman before that. Do you have any reference, date, location from this event?
There is also a short vid of Feldman and Carter on youtube.
Friday, July 4, 1986 at De Kloveniersdoelen, Middelburg, The Netherlands.
im glad this exists
Wow!
Man, I tried using the Adobe AI but I couldn't get it. Feldman's accent was harder for the AI to understand than Xenakis' 😂
Why didn't Morton give up smoking when he knew full well how it was wrecking his health?
great document
bad sound
much smoke
I do wonder what prescription Morton had for his eyeglasses. Those were the days when people smoked, including me.
What a wasted opportunity.
Composer of "music" that AI nowadays can make.
the usual moron is here again
so? what an idiotic remark
I think that what bothers me most about morton feldman is that he was far too greatly impressed with himself. I rather like some of his music, but to me he was an amateur with a smattering of talent. In the company of other composers, whether it was xenakis or carter, for example, he fails to realize that he’s just not in their league.
You are quite wrong, I think. He and Xenakis were is some sense both naives, their work sometimes dismissed by more academically trained composers who did not respect their extraordinary independence. Carter and Feldman, though stylistically opposite were both iconoclasts. Feldman always sounds like music. Carter and Xenakis rather push that boundary, in my opinion.
That's exactly how composers like Cage or Feldman were perceived during their lives - amateurs with zero ability to compose "proper, serious, academic music". The only strange thing here is that you still think the same way in 2021.
In his book Morton touches upon this exact subject. He was never impressed with himself (a Kierkegaard believer), being just a very talkative person.