‘What needs to be done’

Abstract

Earle Brown's music suggests a return to the beginnings of modernity within the American experience, how composers came to terms with the ‘events’, the innovations of the 1950s. Jackson Pollock and the concept of flatness was one such ‘event’, but also the ‘unknown’, the indeterminate, ‘voids’ and ‘spaces’, mobile and static, as from Alexander Calder's work. In this article the discussion is limited simply to paradigms and contexts that the author found in early Brown, where his creativity began, and only two of his works, placed in a more philosophical context, speaking about the ‘working through’ of an idea and where it may have originated.

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