#feldman

You have Harold, don't you? 🤔

I suppose you could see Feldman's role as mentor as a somewhat father figure to MC. He'll be there in his typical no-nonsense, tough love sort of way. MC might look up to him because he's really good at guitar and I see instances of them bonding in that way. You might just soften his old, hardened heart throughout the years.

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.