Conoisseurs of Chaos

Connoisseurs of Chaos alternates restless  group sections with intimate personal scenes. Each scene is swept up in  the swirl of constant change. Morton Feldman, hailing from Brooklyn,  does not employ theatrical and psychological devices that characterize  the music of Bartok and Ligeti. Instead he speaks of the influence of  painting on his composition. “My music takes an allover approach to the  time-canvas like a Pollock painting. Recurrent melody serves no  structural function. It comes back more as a memory than as something  that moves the work along. Situations repeat themselves with subtle  change rather than developing. A stasis develops between expectance and  its realization. As in a dream there is no release until we wake up, and  not because the dream has ended.”

Source: Armitage Gone Dance!

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