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Morton Feldman: “Why does music travel?”
Morton Feldman (Middelbourg Conference, 1985)
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Meeting Pauline Oliveros
In the late ’90s, I was working as a ghostwriter and arranger for film and TV soundtracks in Los Angeles. My best client in those days was Graeme Revell, who had made a name for himself by scoring films in…
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Maps and Scores
“You know, there are all kinds of maps. There are maps that don’t show any small towns between the big cities, and then there are military maps that tell you everything within a fifteen-meter radius. Really, all kinds of maps.…
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Music and Painting (Brian Eno)
“Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.”…
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Luciano Berio about electronic music
Electronic music only became possible once music ceased to exist as a fixed language and linguistic metaphor, when composers began to invent and develop phonemes (in the sense already indicated by Debussy, for example) rather than manipulating ready-made, ready-to-use words;…
