A major figure in 20th-century music, Morton Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman’s works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating; pitch shadings that seem softly […]
continue readingTerry Riley – A Rainbow in Curved Air
Terry Riley is what I call a music portal. When I listen to A Rainbow in Curved Air the third album by the experimental music and classical minimalism pioneer I am pulled into a world of unlimited musical possibilities and potentials. A keyboard virtuoso, Riley plays all the instruments on the title track: electric organ, electric harpsichord (Rock-Si-Chord), dumbec (or goblet drum), and tambourine. The largely […]
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