#feldman

We're back in my medieval hood...but I needed to disable Reshade, because my game kept crashing with it...

To end Crazy Week, I thought, instead of describing the chaotic and stressful day-to-day we all experience, I’d rather listen to music that emphasizes stillness and being ‘unrushed’. There are plenty of things that come to mind, maybe more traditionally I would think of some music by Schubert. More modern, I wanted to listen to Morton Feldman’s 1986 piano piece Palais de Mari. It was his last solo piano piece. The music Feldman is most known for can span Wagnarian lengths, but is mostly slower and thinner textures. This piece is more reasonable in length (the recording shared here by Aleck Karis is about 20 minutes) but has the same atmosphere he created in his larger works: stillness, focus on intervals, and the colors and resonances of the instrument. On the piano it sounds like soft bells. If you are feeling rushed, stressed, and “crazy”, this is the kind of music you can put on to help feel focused on the present, and let go of worry, expectation, and doubt.

A look at the man behind the longest chamber music ever written.

When they invent time travel, Jamison had better get his ass back to the 80s and co-star in all The Two Corey’s movies because 

A.) We need more young Jamison content

and B.) The chemistry between the three of them is golden.