Some years ago we performed the Cage Thoreau Drawings work at dawn break in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park on a rather chilly November morning
begins with a long series of loud cracks done by placing the instrument on a table and executing precise tiny movements of the bow with very high pressure on the strings
He opened up a whole new world of sound and forms of expression that inspired me to begin composing
search for the intimacy you mention within an orchestra and thus convert it as an interesting paradox
my thinking is also influenced by Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities
Morton Feldman Catherine Lamb Some years ago we performedDisc One: 1. Two Pianos (1957) 10: 00 John Tilbury & PhilipThomas, pianos 2. Four Instruments (1965) 11: 58 John Tilbury piano, Anton Lukoszevieze cello, Mira Benjamin violin, Rodrigo Constanzo chimes 3. Vertical Thoughts 1 (1963) 7: 58 John Tilbury & Philip Thomas, pianos 4. Between Categories (1969) 11: 44 John Tilbury & Philip Thomas pianos, Anton Lukoszevieze & Seth Woods cellos, Mira Benjamin & Linda Jankowska violins, Rodrigo Constanzo & Taneli