4 am - 5 am

4 A.M. Eyes are closing despite your struggle. Morton Feldman's almost seamless fabric of music for piano and string quartet is both hypnotic and transporting. I use the word "fabric" with good reason. The composer is said to have written in admiration of tapestries with just the occasional fascinating imperfection. The recording Piano And String Quartet is by The Kronos Quartet and Aki Takahashi (Nonesuch).
As you drift between the conscious and unconscious worlds, you may glance at a mute television to find that Oliver Postgate's Clangers is being aired. If you can't find a channel showing these stop-frame animated parables of the wonderful armadillo-like creatures and their planet, you can always use Vernon Elliot's lovely score (Trunk) to dream your own version.

1. Morton Feldman - Piano and String Quartet (Kronos Quartet) pt 1
    Morton Feldman - Piano and String Quartet (Kronos Quartet) pt 2
2. *The Clangers - Dialogue From Episode 1 (3:33)
3. The Clangers - The Start Of Music (4:30)
4. The Clangers - Musical Sequences (2:30)
5. The Clangers - From "The Seed" (3:18)
6. *The Clangers - From "Music Of The Spheres" (3:19)
7. The Clangers - A Clangers Opera - Act One (Compiled By Oliver Postgate) (11:34)