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Chris Villars' new collection of Feldman interviews and lectures, MORTON FELDMAN SAYS, is truly wonderful! I've been reading it randomly, and I'm always coming across surprises. Feldman was a great talker. And, with that raw Brooklyn accent, he could say the most intriguing things. For example, there's this wonderful interview with Charles Shere in 1967.
But he wasn't just enteraining. He had some really important things to say about music. For one thing, I learned that considered attitude more important than musical procedures. He said, in 1980: "For any music's future, you don't go to the devices, you don't go to the procedures, you go to the attitude. And you do not find your own attitude; that's what you inherit. "
I've been thinking about that statement quite a lot lately. That's perhaps what is ultimately revealed in any artist's work: an attitude.
Well, this book is 239 pages of attitude. Plus some very revealing images of his scores, and a detailed chronology. Read this book! And, there's a great companion book: Give My Regards to Eighth Street, his collected writings, edited by B.H.Friedman (no relation).
I plan to have more to say about the Villars collection soon. But I'm enjoying every page.
