I am reporting this insight from Frank regarding a writing by Feldman (I didn't want it to get lost in the reports.
Frank wrote:
Feldman writes: “I think there are three things that work with me: my ears, my mind, and my fingers. One of the reasons I work at the piano is that it slows me down and I can hear the time element much better, the acoustic reality. I am inside the acoustic reality: for me, there is no such thing as compositional reality”. With these words, Feldman positions himself as the precursor to a way of composing in polemical contrast with the great European tradition.
First of all, I would like to know who uses the piano and who uses it less... and why?
But then I was wondering, the comment of the person who wrote the article says: "With these words, Feldman positions himself as the precursor to a way of composing in polemical contrast with the great European tradition"
It is my understanding that Stravinsky played the piano and has always been considered a Russian composer, I don't know how much of a European... what do you think?
In my opinion it is subjective and if the approach to composition is not properly traditional, it could result in being superfluous; think if I were to start from an audio track, at that point what would the pf be for?
Even if at a certain point people began to create pieces increasingly detached from equal temperament and anyway from a strictly "musical" conception of the pieces. I mean that processes intervened outside of musical, improvisational instinct... more conceptual, where it is enough to have a functioning "brain". Anyway, a good ear also compensates for the lack of the instrument.
