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This composer literally changed my life. It follows me for the last 10 years. The more I dig into him, the better person I become. Need to give him time, as like his works which they are quite sparse and lengthy, but he promises a great satisfaction for the soul. From Wikipedia: A major figure in  20th-century music , Feldman was a pioneer of  indeterminate music , a development associated with the experimental  New York School  of composers also including  John Cage ,  Christian Wolff , and  Earle Brown . Feldman's works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating; pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused; a generally quiet and slowly evolving music; recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also explore extremes of duration. Here is one of my favourite works: Piano & String Quartet