Postulate Songtext
von Thomas Dybdahl

Mr. Feldman, most of your music is very soft at the limit of
Audibility, uh, which means technically, in the case of the
Record, uh, at the limit of tape hiss. I should say your music
Is, uh, there′s a contradiction between your music and the
World in which we live. The world is much louder. Would you
Agree that your music is negative in the sense that it is a
Negation of the existing world, that this is the meaning of it
And that your particular technique to negate the world is softer?


If, um, if I, if I may be presumptuous, I could say
That all important things negate the world or are in
Contradiction to the world. I feel that my music is
Important. I feel that my music is important to the world

Uh, but I find that various attitudes in the world is making it more
Possible for my music to exist than, for example
Twenty years ago, where the environment seemed totally
Hostile to the music. My music is quiet, but the
Audiences in the past twenty years have become more quiet

Well, the environment is the technique. It's another thing than
People. To see the world is a technique. Am I right when I say that
Uh, your music implies the postulate that the world must change or
That it must be changed, that it must be arranged in a manner that
It is, uh, even acoustically possible to listen to a piece of you?