«I have a problem with too little notes.»
«Last Sunday I was with an artist friend in the Metropolitan Museum and we were talking about the late work of Degas. It turned out that as the painter got older and more secure, the more thin he painted. Where in his middle ages it was this thick and when he was young it was like… [Feldman makes very broad gestures]. It is very difficult to paint thinly because you don’t know if it wilt become too flat. And that’s the problem that I have with too little notes, that I feel that my music is going to become more or less like a poster, you see, that it is just on the surface, that it is not going to have a kind of impasto, depth; that the sound complex itself is not going to have a dimension inward and outward.»
Morton Feldman, In conversation: Morton Feldman and Iannis Xenakis
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