My teacher Stefan Wolpe was a Marxist and he felt my music was too esoteric at the time. And he had his studio on a proletarian street, on Fourteenth Street and Sixth Avenue. . . . He was on the second floor and we were looking out the window, and he said, “What about the man on the street?” At that moment . . . Jackson Pollock was crossing the street. The crazy artist of my generation was crossing the street at that moment. – Morton Feldman
Piano and String Quartet (1985) performed by Aki Takahashi and the Kronos Quartet
This episode was inspired in part by Alex Ross's essay American Sublime [https://www.therestisnoise.com/2006/06/morton_feldman_.html].
The soundscapes are based on these recordings [https://freetousesounds.bandcamp.com/album/new-york-city-sound-effects-soundscape-vol-01] .
