An interview with Morton Feldman, 1967
Elm Greenwood
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@NickVasallo 11 years ago
You can hear Morton light up a cigarette every 7 min.
@djwolffrankfurt 1 year ago
The interviewer is the late, great Charles Shere, composer, arts critic, and at that time music director at KPFA in Berkeley.
@alyoshaproductions 8 years ago
"...so is there a little bit of Hegel left in every body who begins?" fecking brilliant.
@ghost_note_chronicler 11 years ago
Wow, thanks. Wish there would be video interviews, but this is a wonderful substitute.
@hectorcavallaro 7 years ago
"You see, the reason my music is limitated is because I don't believe in Hegel" - Morton Feldman
@sergiohman 9 years ago
Escuchando esta entrevista mientras suena de fondo su Piano y cuarteto de cuerdas (1985).
@danyelnicholas 5 years ago
To those who draw false conclusions from this tape:
Feldman actually was one of the most witty people I ever met. (Even from a Hegelian point of view as Heinz Klaus Metzger, who adored Feldman, would have told you). It is important to realise that at that point he was very tired of quick wise-cracking as demonstrated by the interviewer who constantly interrupts him. He hated stereotypes and kept reflecting on art from all sorts of angles. Later it would even include nomadic rugs which he studied in-depth. Frequently he mentioned the heated discussions with his teacher Stefan Wolpe earlier in his life. Conversations with Rothko or Guston certainly introduced a degree of hesitancy, of questioning a standardised 'academic' discourse. That's also what he made responsible for the decline of Boulez and Stockhausen who were stuck in those schemes.
Feldman actually was one of the most witty people I ever met. (Even from a Hegelian point of view as Heinz Klaus Metzger, who adored Feldman, would have told you). It is important to realise that at that point he was very tired of quick wise-cracking as demonstrated by the interviewer who constantly interrupts him. He hated stereotypes and kept reflecting on art from all sorts of angles. Later it would even include nomadic rugs which he studied in-depth. Frequently he mentioned the heated discussions with his teacher Stefan Wolpe earlier in his life. Conversations with Rothko or Guston certainly introduced a degree of hesitancy, of questioning a standardised 'academic' discourse. That's also what he made responsible for the decline of Boulez and Stockhausen who were stuck in those schemes.
An interview with Morton Feldman, 1967
Elm Greenwood
48,857 views
No description available