Palais de Mari

Music composed by Morton Feldman, interpreted by Hugh Hinton. (Info about the composer and performer here http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=92)

This is fascinating music to explore, so far from "entertainment," needing time to enter into (sure to keep the "mad-zappers" unsatisfied). It is so apparently bare, it brings one back to oneself, it almost forces us "... to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time" (T.S. Eliot, Little GIdding, Four Quartets).

Morton Feldman and I share something special: we both worked at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, he from about 1968 to 1973, I from 1978 to 1984.
That was before the time when the school became a degree-granting institution, possibly losing much in the process ("Punished by Rewards?").

Working with this music came out of preparations for concerts done with Belgian pianist Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven.
The theme is the "trance," more info on that here
http://www.vudici.net/movies/Transe_Demo/Transe_Intro_en.html