Mr. Feldman,
most of your music is very soft,
at the limit of audibility,
which means technically,
in the case of a record,
at the limit of tape-piece.
I should say your music is,
there's a contradiction between your
music and the world in which we live.
The world is much louder.
Would you agree that your
music is negative in a sense,
that it's a negation of the existing world,
that is the meaning of it,
and that your particular technique to
negate the world is soft?
If I may be presumptuous,
I could say that all important forms
negate the world,
or are
in contradiction.
I feel that my music is important.
I feel that my music is important
But
I find
that various attitudes in the world
is making it more possible for my music
to exist
than, for example, 20 years ago,
where the environment seemed totally hostile to the music.
My music is quiet,
but the audiences in the past 20 years have become more quiet.
Of the environment,
technically.
It's another thing than people.
To see the world is a technique.
Am
I right when I say that your music implies
the postulate that the world must change,
or that it must be changed,
that it must be arranged in a manner that it is even acoustically
possible to listen to a piece of you?