Why Patterns?; Crippled Symmetry

by Morton Feldman

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Hat ART
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 2:02:34
  • Community rating: 4.13/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This essential Hat ART release documents two of the American avant-garde composer's mesmerizing, late-career chamber works. Featuring flute, piano, and glockenspiel, the compositions unfold through extreme minimalism and quiet, shifting rhythmic asymmetries, creating a profoundly meditative acoustic environment.

Genres

Descriptors: chamber, minimal, repetitive, flute, piano

Tracklist

  1. Why Patterns? (1978) (31:20)
  2. Crippled Symmetry (1983): Part 1 (26:00)
  3. Crippled Symmetry (1983): Part 2 (1:05:13)

Credits

  • Eberhard Blum - flute, alto flute, bass flute
  • Jan Williams - glockenspiel, vibraphone

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