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Playing Feldman is like finding a room for myself, a transparent and bright place where the heartbeats slow down and deepen, and the movement gets precise, in my mind, in my breath, in my dance.This video has been taken by David Reid during a public performance in Conway Hall, London.

Besides the unpublished works of his youth (from the Feldman collection at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland), and the last great piano piece written shortly before his passing (Palais de Mari), I play the piano and do choreographic movement at the same time interpreting some pages written for dance in the 1950s.

Part of this project - which had its first performances in Venice, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, and in Padua, for the Centro d'Arte of the University - has been recorded in the USA on CD as a world premiere. The choreography of the Three Dances was performed for the first time in London in March 2006 for the launch of the book Morton Feldman Says, edited by Chris Villars.
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  • le pause sono silenzi e i morti non danzano

  • per tutti quelli che pensano che i movimenti non siano necessari nella musica di Feldman: QUESTA musica è stata espressamente scritta per una danzatrice, e il manoscritto (che ho l'onore di aver visto) è pieno di annotazioni sui passi di danza, e su come questi debbano riempire i silenzi.

  • ho rivisto il tuo video: non mi conviceva e non mi convince neppure adesso questa musica con questa danza: impoverisce di significato sia l'una che l'altra. che poi sia feldman che espressamente richiede questa danza non cambia le cose. altra cosa sono le musiche di cage con la danza di Cunningham. per il resto adoro sia feldman che la danza. imho.

  • Dici bene, altro è lavorare con l'autore (come Cunningham con Cage), altro è inventare ciò di cui non è rimasto traccia (il solo della Erdman).

    Semplicemente non è musica assoluta, ma integrata ad un aspetto visivo.

    Le pause di Three Dances non sono quelle di Palais de Mari. E il pensiero musicale di F. non deve esaurirsi nel solito clichè: il silenzio.

    Che il risultato sia poco convincente poco importa, per l'interprete. Importa che si sia fatto un passo in più nella comprensione dell'autore.

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  • will you be my girlfriend

  • è l'intenzione e l'intensità che hai, nella tua musica e nelle performance. c'è qualcosa di magnetico sempre, (quasi) ipnotico!

  • the very way to do the piano

    the very way to do

    a n y t h i n g

    there can be wisdom in silliness

    (just as much as there can be wisdom in silence)

    ((s i l e n c e usally being the option of choice though))

    we forgot to mention that we REALLY like that

    (合掌 gassho/namaste)

  • thanks for posting the thoughts about Feldman and for this inspiring video, yes, I liked the dance, too, ..... Feldman's music often helps me find a personal space

  • It's really amazing! Thanks a lot!

  • Bravo

    this reminds me of a peice I saw at the Bang on a Can Marathon this year.  Haemmerklavier III: One Man Band by Maurice Eggert. Shiau-uen who played it barely if ever struck the keys but instead hit the bench and strings making poly-rhythms in a dazzling display of skill. The only time I remember her hitting the keys was with her feet. Wild.

    Were the movements you made written in the score?

  • this is so beautiful. your movement is as graceful, as patient, as subtle as the music itself. beautiful!

  • I'm doing the same thing... heard a little bio on Feldman on public radio while driving across the country from Bellingham, WA to Chicago about 5 years ago and I pulled over to write down his name. Just getting around to looking him up.

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