Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories (Aki Takahashi, piano)
XLD | FLAC + LOG + CUE | RAR | 202 MB | COVERS + BOOKLET (6 MB, JPG)
Avant-Garde, 20th Century Classical | ALM Records ALCD-33 | Released in 1989
XLD | FLAC + LOG + CUE | RAR | 202 MB | COVERS + BOOKLET (6 MB, JPG)
Avant-Garde, 20th Century Classical | ALM Records ALCD-33 | Released in 1989
| “ | "What Western musical forms have become is a paraphrase of memory. But memory could operate otherwise as well. In Triadic Memories, [...], there is a section of different types of chords where each chord is slowly repeated. One chord might be repeated three times, another, seven or eight - depending on how long I felt it should go on. Quite soon into a new chord I would forget the reiterated chord before it. I then reconstructed the entire section: rearranging its earlier progression and changing the number of times a particular chord was repeated. This way of working was a conscious attempt at "formalizing" a disorientation of memory. Chords are heard repeated without any discernible pattern. In this regularity (though there are slight gradations of tempo) there is a suggestion that what we hear is functional and directional, but we soon realize that this is an illusion; a bit like walking the streets of Berlin - where all the buildings look alike, even if they're not." Morton Feldman, "Crippled Symmetry," Res (Autumn 1981) | ” |
