Music by MORTON FELDMAN

Pianist-composer JARED REDMOND performs MORTON FELDMAN’S 1981 masterpiece Triadic Memories for piano solo. Described by the composer as “the biggest butterfly in captivity”, Triadic Memories typifies Feldman’s late style: a dreamlike work woven of hypnotically shifting, mosaic-like patterns, unrelentingly fragile and quiet, and of great length. Influenced deeply by the abstract visual art of his time, Feldman uses resonance, repetition, and register as colors, and speaks of the influence of painter Cy Twombly, whose gesso brushwork inspired Feldman to “smudge” the music’s hypnotizing harmonies into “a kind of precarious rainbow”.

oakland reductionist orchestra performs their unique interpretation of MORTON FELDMAN’S  Intersection #1 (1951).

MUSICIANS

tom djll, trumpet
ron heglin, tuba
monica scott, cello
matt ingalls, clarinets
lisa mezzacappa, bass
kyle bruckmann, oboe, english horn
kevin corcoran, percussion
kevin ck lo, violin/flute/piano
kanoko nishi-smith, koto
joshua marshall, tenor saxophone
john ingle, saxophones
john bischoff, electronics
jacob felix heule, percussion
isabelle waldner kalb, viola
diane grubbe, flutes
danishta rivero, voice
cody putman, bassoon
chris cooper, guitar, electronics
cheryl e leonard, natural-object instruments