New Directions In Music 2

Description

Morton Feldman is a legendary figure in modern classical music • It goes without saying that his first album from 1959, New Directions in Music 2, is a significant release in the genre • Feldman's association with the New York abstract expressionist scene is explicitly represented by the cover by Philip Guston • However, the minimalism of his music and his emphasis on tonal color most revealingly express the spirit of his fellow visual artists • Feldman was influenced by, and influenced, John Cage • Cage's experiments with chance composition and performance methods resonate in Feldman's graphic notation, which left performers with choices of rhythm and pitch in his pieces "Projections" and "Intersections" • First reissue of sequences and original works • Pressed at Gotta Groove Records