The Possibility of A New Work for Electric Guitar: Feldman/Wolff/Eisenberg (EP)

Other Minds is proud to present The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar, a new limited-edition 12” 45 RPM vinyl disc of music by Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff, performed by Wolff and Wendy Eisenberg. Side A features two performances of Morton Feldman’s The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar, written for Wolff (who professes to be “not really a guitar player”) in 1966 as an experiment on the instrument.On his way to perform The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar a fourth time at Yale, after performances in New York, San Francisco, and at Harvard, Wolff’s guitar was stolen from his car, along with the only copy of Feldman’s score. In 2002, when the music archive of KPFA was being digitized by Other Minds, a recording of Wolff’s 1966 performance of the piece in San Francisco surfaced. This recording is included on Side A of this record, followed by a 2022 recording of the piece by Wendy Eisenberg performed from Seth Josel’s transcription of Wolff’s 196