Dr. Takt über Morton Feldmans „Triadic Memories“ / Takt 111 bis - Deutsche Oper Berlin
Dr Takt is our man behind the score. He is very familiar with the work and reveals to us its special moments. This time:
Dr. Takt über Morton Feldman's „Triadic Memories“ / measure 111 to
This is the 12th episode in our series of videos with Dr Takt
Waldesruh
A campsite without trees – with Morton Feldman; Documentary music theatre (interviews with foresters, tree experts etc.); Music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert; Arranged by Michael Wilhelmi
Director: Anna-Sophie Mahler
1, 3, 4, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 October 2020
Morton Feldman views musical form, the "paraphrasing of memory", as a basic tenet of Western music: individual sections are repeated and recognised. But Feldman wants to "disorient" memory. This is helped by the extreme length of some of his pieces, with his piano piece "Triadic Memories" from 1981, at 60 to 120 minutes, being aphoristically short compared to other pieces of the time. The listener is drawn into the current of individual, very lightly played sounds that each build up on what came before, virtually "fading away" in the memory of the listener. Each measure is understood as a rhythmically nuanced chord that repeats but is slightly changed so as to give the impression, "as though we were walking through the streets of Berlin, where all of the buildings look the same even though they aren't."
