In the spring of 2004, photographer Steven D. Foster, pianist Louis Goldstein and writer Clark Lunberry came together to create a unique interdisciplinary program that celebrates and explores the music and ideas of American composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) and his masterpiece for solo piano, Triadic Memories (1983). Their project, Triadic Memories: Images, Music, Text, included an exhibition of more than 50 of Foster’s Feldman-inspired Repetition Series photographs, a rare performance of Feldman’s Triadic Memories by Goldstein, and a lecture by Lunberry, “Remembrance of Things Present: Steven Foster’s Repetition Series Photographs, Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories,” that investigates many of Feldman’s ideas about time, memory and perception in relation to Feldman’s music and Foster’s photographs.

The Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, through its Institute of Visual Arts (Inova), is planning to tour this cross-disciplinary collaboration to venues throughout the United States. The Peck School is also preparing a publication featuring an extended version of Lunberry’s essay, reproductions of Foster’s work, and a copy of the Goldstein recording of Triadic Memories.