Morton Feldman
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Sep 20, 2026
Linda Catlin-SmithGUEST
And I just, I went to town and I listened to almost everything I could find.
Linda Catlin-SmithGUEST
And that's where I first heard the music of Morton Feldman.
Linda Catlin-SmithGUEST
They had two of his recordings.
Linda Catlin-SmithGUEST
I'd never heard his music before.
Linda Catlin-SmithGUEST
It was either kind of the complexity stuff or it was the downtown Steve Reich, Philip Glass.
Linda Catlin-SmithGUEST
That was all happening at once and I didn't feel like either one was my world.
Linda Catlin-SmithGUEST
But when I heard those recordings of Feldman, it really made me sit up.
Linda Catlin-SmithGUEST
I have this experience when I hear something I've never heard before.
Claudio F. BaroniGUEST
In this period, we play with ensembles.
Claudio F. BaroniGUEST
We play music by Morton Feldman, mostly American composers and local composers.
Claudio F. BaroniGUEST
So of course, Sean Cage, Terry Riley, some of the keyboard pieces.
Claudio F. BaroniGUEST
So this I know for quite a long time.
Anne La BergeHOST
Pieces that were very, very long with minimal material? Because Sives is maximal material.
Claudio F. BaroniGUEST
Right, right.
Anne La BergeHOST
Feldman is minimal material, as is Terry Riley in a different sense.
Anne La BergeHOST
And
Joby BurgessGUEST
I don't think of them as separate instruments so much.
Joby BurgessGUEST
So if I'm working with, uh, a group of instruments, for example, if I was playing a piece of music like, there's a great piece of music by Morton Feldman called The King of Denmark, which is this incredibly soft piece of, um, contemporary music from 1960s, and you play everything very softly just with the hands.
Joby BurgessGUEST
Um, it's almost imperceptible at times.
Joby BurgessGUEST
But I don't think of the triangles and the vibraphone and the timpani and the gongs as separate things.
Joby BurgessGUEST
It's, it's one, it's one voice just using lots of different keys or different colors.
Joby BurgessGUEST
[instrumental music]
Brad WilliamsHOST
Do you think of your role as a percussionist the same playing Morton Feldman or Steve Reich as you would being in a recording studio working on a film score? How is your role to percussionist similar or different in those different landscapes?
Joby BurgessGUEST
Um, w- uh, it's...
Aaron BurnettGUEST
And he kind of like introduced me to some of these concepts, especially like the multimeter polyrhythmic concepts of polytonal.
Aaron BurnettGUEST
Like I started listening to Morton Feldman because I saw like I I think I got a message or something from Tyshawn.
Aaron BurnettGUEST
He was like, check out Morton Feldman.
Aaron BurnettGUEST
I checked out Morton Feldman.
Aaron BurnettGUEST
I was like fascinated by that music.
Aaron BurnettGUEST
I was like, this is like transformative in a way.
Christa CopperHOST
Mm-hmm.
Robert BlackGUEST
Cage and Morton Feldman, Earl Brown, and Christian Wolff.
Robert BlackGUEST
I think Christian is....
Robert BlackGUEST
Not sure about-- He's definitely a generation younger than John, but I'm not sure about Feldman, Earl Brown.
Nate BrownHOST
I thought there were just kind of these isolated sound events and And it surprised me that somebody was still writing that sort of stuff in 1987.
Nate BrownHOST
To me, it's associated more with the 50s or 60s, maybe with Morton Feldman, but also with somebody like Webern or some of his followers who maybe would have been more sparse.
Nate BrownHOST
Certainly not somebody like Boulez who likes to be more dense.
Nate BrownHOST
But the other thing was that it was really low.
Lucy JeffreyGUEST
It's definitely not that Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk.
Lucy JeffreyGUEST
It's a failed synth- synthesis of Morton Feldman's score and Beckett's text.
Lucy JeffreyGUEST
There's a vaguing going on, another one of Beckett's words.
Lucy JeffreyGUEST
And we're so used to technology clarifying things and simplifying things, but actually it's used, I feel, to increase the ambiguity between the sound and the source of that sound and the meaning.
Lucy JeffreyGUEST
It's definitely not that Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk.
Lucy JeffreyGUEST
It's a failed synth- synthesis of Morton Feldman's score and Beckett's text.
Lucy JeffreyGUEST
There's a Veganin going on, another one of Beckett's words, and we are so used to technology clarifying things and simplifying things.
Lucy JeffreyGUEST
But actually it's used, I feel, to increase the ambiguity between the sound and the source of that sound and the meaning.
Lucy JefferyGUEST
It's definitely not that Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk.
Lucy JefferyGUEST
It's a failed synth- synthesis of Morton Feldman's score and Beckett's text.
Lucy JefferyGUEST
There's a vaguing going on, another one of Beckett's words, and we are so used to technology clarifying things and simplifying things, but actually it's used, I feel, to increase the ambiguity between the sound and the source of that sound and the meaning.
Lucy JefferyGUEST
Music doesn't come in to alleviate or say what words cannot, but music, I feel, is a, a real disruptor.
Robert N. WinterHOST
He has also held senior roles at the Australian Institute of Music and the Australian National University, and is a pianist and composer.
Robert N. WinterHOST
His scholarly work on Morton Feldman argued that music, long assumed to be intuitive and free, was in fact built on a deliberate, hidden structure, which is, as it happens, a serviceable description of the Australian university, an institution that speaks the language of autonomy, while its most important variables are set in Canberra.
Robert N. WinterHOST
His own recent work, an album released this year called Solarization, consists of place-based investigations in experimental sound.
Robert N. WinterHOST
That is worth noting, because the argument he makes about universities is ultimately an argument about place.
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Alistair NobleGUEST
goes through my mind, you know, but okay.
Alistair NobleGUEST
I think one I think that, you know, has had some lasting value for me in my thinking is music.
Alistair NobleGUEST
a little piece by the composer, I think we mentioned earlier, Morton Feldman, I wrote my PhD about him, and he wrote this very small piano piece called Intermission 6.
Alistair NobleGUEST
And it's just a little series of individual notes and a couple of chords that are in the original sheet music are just scattered, looking a bit randomly on the page.
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