“The discovery that sound in itself can be a totally plastic phenomenon, suggesting its own shape, d
“The discovery that sound in itself can be a totally plastic phenomenon, suggesting its own shape, design and poetic metaphor, led me to devise a new system of graphic notation–an ‘indeterminate’ structure allowing for the direct utterance of the sound, unhampered by compositional rhetoric. Unlike improvisation, which relies solely on memory in selecting the most empirical and sophisticated examples of a style, or styles, the purpose of the graph is to erase memory, to erase virtuosity–to do away with everything but a direct action in terms of the sound itself.” –David Cline, The Graph Music of Morton FeldmanImages: Examples of Morton Feldman’s graph scores -- source link
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