Morton Feldman

What happens when we listen to the same piece of music over and over again—and allow it to change the way we hear the world?

In *Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus*, French author, musician, and publisher Guillaume Belhomme explores one of Morton Feldman’s most enigmatic late works: the expansive, almost whispering composition *For Bunita Marcus* for solo piano, composed in 1985.

The starting point is Hildegard Kleeb’s acclaimed recording, to which Belhomme returns time and again—in private spaces, on streets and in squares, traveling from Prague and Vienna to Morocco and Mauritania. Every encounter transforms the music. Sounds intrude into its pauses; repetitions return in a transformed form; memories and places become part of what we hear.

In fifty short, fragmentary chapters, Belhomme moves between music criticism, travel writing, philosophical reflection, and personal experience. Feldman’s exploration of time, silence, and repetition leads to Samuel Beckett and John Cage, to Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, and the artists of the New York School.

Bunita Marcus herself offers a unique perspective: She recounts the seven years of her close artistic collaboration with Feldman and explains why he included her name in the title of this extraordinary work.

The volume concludes with “One Minute, Just One,” Belhomme’s imagined letter from Morton Feldman to Philip Guston—a literary miniature about friendship, art, distance, and disappearance.

Morton Feldman. *For Bunita Marcus* is not a conventional program note. Rather, the book invites readers to listen, to lose themselves, to start anew—and to discover how music changes each time they return to it.

The book will be released on October 15 and is available for pre-order now!

Published by Wolke Verlag by the same author: Eric Dolphy – Biographical Sketches