Morton Feldman was a composer who decided graph paper could set his music free. He created a whole new way of notating music in the 1960’s. It included a lot of scribbled marks in rows of little boxes. The music scholar David Bernstein and percussionist Jan Williams describe how Feldman’s graph music worked. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.
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