Morton Feldman - Piano And String Quartet (1985)

[lockjaw6]

amazing.

[krakus5813]

I just fucking love this piece!

[loltheworld]

Death itself. static, lifeless, gently toward the everlasting light.

[vakhi1]

An hour of bliss!

[undergodot]

love the music, and love the film...enchanting!

[tondekruyff]

@undergodot Thanks, it's always a pleasure to read a positive comment :)

[4StringTheory]

Finally they're getting more acquainted with Morton Feldman in The Netherlands.

I was ecstatic when the Muziekgebouw aan't IJ held the Morton Feldman festival... still cannot believe I was part of the 20% of people left over that was actually awake by the end of his 2,5hr 1st string quartet endurance piece : ) Not to mention the flabbergasting Rothko Chapel!

PS. The Ives ensemble is performing this Piano & string quartet at the

Felix Meritis Nov 15. and I've got my ticket yea!

THX4posting! :)

[tondekruyff]

@4StringTheory I rediscovered Feldman because of that festival. They should do a repeat :)

Working on a "clip" for the string quartet that will put most people to sleep

Thanks for the Felix Meritis tip!

[4StringTheory]

@tondekruyff It would, most certainly, be splendid if they did : )

Although I do know for certain that the Ives ensemble have scheduled

more Feldman pieces in the near future...

...or at least that is what I read on their website.

THX again for posting it. Wonderful hearing it again after so many years.

And looks like the digital anomalies on the video are indeed a welcome

serendipitous error. Kudos.

[4StringTheory]

Finally they're getting more acquainted with Morton Feldman in The Netherlands.

Got the gift of a lifetime couple of years ago when the Muziekgebouw aan't IJ held the Morton Feldman festival... still cannot believe I was part of the 15-20% of people left over that was actually awake by the end of his 2,5hr 1st string quartet endurance piece : ) Not to mention the flabbergasting Rothko!

PS. The Ives ensemble is performing this Piano & string quartet at the

Felix Meritis Nov 15. Can't wait : )

[dchiapello]

Thanks for the commentary on the film. My hat is off to you and your girlfriend! So I take it that all the movement within the fields is just the play of light on the walls - but because of the low video resolution, we see lots of shifting grays. When I first watched, my brain was looking for a person or animal or some sort of animate being in those shadows. Wonderful!

[tondekruyff]

@dchiapello That's right, nothing was moving in the museum room when we made the initial films. The quality of the "image" also detetriorated every time a step or conversion was made. Had we made two more converions the image would just have dissappeared.

[dchiapello]

The visual is nearly as mesmerizing as the music. Information, please!

[tondekruyff]

@dchiapello Thanks for the comment. I added an explanation of how the visual was made to the description of the video.

[asliuf]

Thank you SO much for posting this. I've been dying to hear a full recording of this piece, it's one of my favorite feldman pieces now.