#György Ligeti

[jackiebranc]

FIVE CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS

GIACINTO SCELSI, GYÖRGY LIGETI, PIERRE BOULEZ,

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

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Ligeti: None

Lentz:

To quote my mum who took my ticket to see the premiere because I had rehearsal (musician problems I guess) "it was like he got so tired of her (Arabella Steinbacher) asking him to write this, he just made it as hard as possible". And tbh shes not wrong its so insanely difficult. score video for reference: https://youtu.be/mpjSYK_yvRY?si=sAvdj96BOEQ3MTkg very modern! inspired by the idea of like angels apparently, but what I really hear is the sound of the aussie outback. Lentz does say this but like. yeah. especially with creepy sounding percussion, thats exactly what some of it is like out there. bit spooky, very very very empty. so empty but also its australia so its beautiful but could 100% kill you if you're not careful

#violin concerto bracket #violin concerto #violin #györgy ligeti #georges lentz #classical music

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01. 0:00:00 - Hoahio "Happy Mail" 02. 0:03:43 - Arve Henriksen "Planting Trees Creating Beauty" 03. 0:08:02 - Maurice Ravel "Rapsodie Espagnole, prélude à la nuit" 04. 0:11:40 - Sinead O'Connor "Feel So Different" 05. 0:18:04 - Alog "As Complicated And As Beautiful As Always" 06. 0:24:49 - Ikue Mori "Hive" 07. 0:29:55 - Jamie Saft "Chet" 08. 0:34:31 - Portishead "Machine Gun" 09. 0:39:10 - Wibutee "Lookout" 10. 0:43:58 - François Couturier "L'éternel Retour" 11. 0:47:36 - Béla Bartok "The Miraculous Mandarin, Third Seduction Game" 12. 0:49:16 - J.S.Bach "Komm, Jesu, komm" 13. 0:56:02 - Maurice Ravel "Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte" 14. 1:02:15 - Olivier Messiaen "Le Banquet céleste" 15. 1:08:10 - Brian Eno "2_1" 16. 1:16:27 - Ligeti "Lux aeterna" 17. 1:24:20 - David Lewiston "Padmasambhava Tsechu Sadava" 18. 1:37:13 - Fred Gianelli "Contemplation Part 2" 19. 1:48:16 - Mari Boine "Áhccái (Mix by Future Prophecies)" 20. 1:56:56 - Monolight "Red Mystic" 21. 2:02:18 - Alog "Drunk Dj's" 22. 2:07:00 - Hoahio "Chatchat" 23. 2:09:16 - Ikue Mori "Clapper" 24. 2:12:00 - Wibutee "Up And Away" 25. 2:14:59 - Roberto Gerhard "Hymne À La Muse-Gerhard" 26. 2:15:54 - Arve Henriksen "White Gravel" 27. 2:17:53 - Massacre "South Orange Sunset" 28. 2:21:58 - Tetsu Inoue "All Natural" 29. 2:23:38 - Schoenberg "Pierrot Lunaire, Sérénade" 30. 2:25:59 - Olivier Messiaen "Mode De Valeurs Et D'intensités" 31. 2:29:47 - Schoenberg "Chamber Symphony #1 in E" 32. 2:59:10 - Edward Artemiev "Mirror - Exodus" 33. 3:05:50 - Robert Henke "Signal to Noise II" 34. 3:14:12 - Ligeti "Etude pour Orgue" 35. 3:20:14 - Philus aka Mika Vaino "Kuvio 4" 36. 3:29:02 - Ikue Mori "Recipe" 37. 3:33:01 - Tore Elgaroy "Jellybrain" 38. 3:34:56 - Ennio Morricone "Once Upon A Time In The West (revisited by John Zorn)" 39. 3:43:00 - Gabor Szabo "Azure Blue" 40. 3:47:12 - Dolly Parton "Jolene" 41. 3:50:39 - Mahler " Symphony #9 In D, Adagio" 42. 4:11:48 - Mozart "Masonic Funeral Music" 43. 4:17:13 - Mozart "Requiem In D Minor, Introitus" 44. 4:21:49 - Edward Artemiev "Solaris - Dream" 45. 4:28:19 - Bill Laswell "Aghora" 46. 4:38:00 - Phonophani "Cook Islands" 47. 4:40:45 - Jamie Saft "T'khelet" 48. 4:47:09 - Hoahio "Less Than Lovers, More Than Friends" 49. 4:53:28 - TV Victor "Agai" Mixed by Dj Bouto #contemporary #electronic #avantgarde #improvisation #jazz #trance #chillmusic #classical

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Lontano

György Ligeti (28 maggio 1923 - 2006): Lontano per orchestra (1967). Wiener Philharmoniker, dir. Claudio Abbado. Lontano è una delle opere fondamentali di Ligeti, risale al periodo in cui decise di sperimentare procedure compositive totalmente nuove e inusitate. Il titolo (in italiano) fa riferimento a una lontananza intesa in senso non solo spaziale, ma anche “storico” e soprattutto musicale: i…

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Musique Concrète and Other Experimental And Electronic Music

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Musique Concrète and Other Experimental And Electronic Music

In the subject Creative Music Technology at university last semester, I was asked to listen to a collection of experimental and electronic music to stimulate my creative imagination, and to write what I liked and didn’t like about it. Here’s my rather cynical take on the genre.

Musique Concrète

Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry – Symphonie pour un Homme Seul

This piece reminded me of Strauss’s Symphonia Domestica; only less musical. I’m a Homme Seul (single man) and my life doesn’t sound anything like this. In his book La musique concrète, Schaeffer described the work as “an opera for blind people…”. Haven’t they suffered enough?

Edgard Varèse – Poème Électronique

The audio equivalent of Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali’s Un Chien Andalou.

Does to my ears what the asbestos coating on the walls of the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair for which it was commissioned, would do to my lungs.

György Ligeti – Artikulation

George Lucas must owe Ligeti millions in royalties for R2D2’s sound effects. Initially I thought I was joking when I first wrote that, but I’ve since discovered that he was actually trying to create a sort of phonetic speech in electronic music, which pretty much fits R2D2’s dialogue. Plus, the title is German for “articulation”. That should have been a giveaway.

I thought this piece might make more sense to me if I played it backwards, so I dropped it into Logic Pro X and reversed it. I couldn’t tell the difference. Perhaps I would have enjoyed it more if I listened to it in the original quadraphonic. I’ll just end noting that Ligeti abandoned electronic music after composing this piece.

Iannis Xenakis – Concret PH

2 minutes and 44 seconds of breaking glass to my ears. I think I’d rather listen to Kraftwerk.

Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kontakte

It’s long. It’s too long. I think this is how Jacob Collier learned to play piano in his mother’s womb; but look at him now. The title is German for “Contacts”, which I think Stockhausen interpreted as “Just hit the things.” Maybe it sounds better in the original quadraphonic.

Stockhausen was evidently a pioneer of the extended dance remix, as the work exists in several versions: “Nr. 12”, “Nr. 12½” and “Nr. 12⅔”

Bernard Parmegiani – Accidents / harmoniques

Parmegiani had studied mime before turning his hand to electro-acoustic composition, and in this piece it really shows. From the album De Natura Sonorum (the nature of sound). I felt like there were Martians in my head listening to this. Surely he’s just playing a joke on us.

Pauline Oliveiros – Bye Bye Butterfly

Bids farewell to the institutionalized oppression of the female sex while also providing inspiration for the sound of the Theramin. Gave my new monitor speakers a good workout; I hope the neighbours enjoyed it too.

Tape Loops

Steve Reich – It’s Gonna Rain

I’ve got this pervasive feeling that it’s going to rain. I’m not sure why. I liked the way the meteorological message panned left and right. More like It’s Gonna Have An Acid Trip.

Halleluiah Part II is over. I’m not sure how I lasted the full 18 minutes.

Terry Riley – Mescalin Mix

Parts of this sounded to me like an industrial version of native Australian bush sounds. I felt like I was on a camping trip in the 23rd century.

Brian Eno – 1/1

From his album Music For Airports/Ambient 1, which apparently coined the term Ambient Music. Brian Eno has a lot to answer for. However, this track put me in a relaxing state, ready to fall asleep on the plane; so I liked it.

Sampling

Luc Ferrari – Ronda, Spain, June 2001

After being jolted awake by the sound of a loud sliding door opening to greet the day, I was drawn into this by the sweet sound of a French woman’s voice. I imagined she was Ferrari’s lover, speaking to him in bed after awakening on a warm Spanish summer Sunday morning. I wanted to know what she was saying, but my French isn’t good enough. In my mind’s eye, they head to a busy market together to buy some croissants for breakfast, where we hear a man’s voice repeating “numero quatro”, which I assumed is Spanish for “number 4”. As the voices fade, the sound becomes more musical and we return to the soft sound of Ronda speaking to her beloved back in their villa together. I quite liked it.

My interpretation, however, is not what the composer had in mind. According to him, the point of Les Anecdotiques (The Anecdotals) is to dispense with the story altogether. My busy market was, in fact, the sound of Spanish tourists in a museum. While he describes the woman’s words as “Spontaneous and intimate”, in this context they are simply words in a foreign language with no narrative purpose. Just another one of Pierre Schaeffer and Michel Chion’s sound objects, if you will. My narrative interpretation of what was intended as an explicitly anecdotal work is testament to the human brain’s tendency to make meaning out of nothing. It turns out Rhonda is a village in Spain, not a woman.

Still, I enjoyed my little fantasy, thank you Luc.

John Oswald – Manifold

Wow, this was short. I didn’t even have time to eat breakfast while listening to it. It was only about as long as the Spotify ads, but certainly more fun. I recognised a couple of songs, like U2’s With or Without You and Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares To You. Artists who use samples liberally often sample obscure works, sometimes affording them attention they would otherwise have missed; but in this work Oswald went mainstream. It sounded to me like the soundtrack to a sample-abusing hip-hop artist from the 1990’s being beaten up in a boxing ring by all the artists who reckoned he’d ripped off their work.

Tod Dockstader – Water Music: Part III

I quite liked this piece. The cuteness of the sounds and the stereo effects bouncing between the left and right channels really drew me in. I’ve recently got myself some decent monitor speakers for my home studio and this piece really worked on them. Pretty amazing for something released in 1963.

Dockstader started out in the 1940’s, prior to the invention of magnetic tape, editing his steel wire recordings with a lit cigarette. That makes me realise how much I take the piece-of-crap Logic Pro X File Editor for granted. Listening to this, I found myself wanting to know what was going to happen next, like I was watching a soap opera on TV; only with no actual story.

Synthesis

Karlheinz Stockhausen – Studie I

I found this quite disorienting to listen to. I guess it was revolutionary in 1953 but I reckon now you could whip it up in Ableton in about 5 minutes using the Random MIDI Effect and some automation.

Eliane Radigue – Jetsun Mila (Pt.1) / Birth and Youth (Excerpt)

I liked how the pulsing ambient drone sound in this grew over time; it drew me in and had me wondering what was going to happen next. Unfortunately the answer was: not much. Gradually a rhythmic element with some high pulsing tones which grew over time came in. It was a bit like listening to a very slow EDM dance track from underwater in a diesel-powered submarine going at full throttle for 12 minutes.

Laurie Spiegel – Appalachian Grove: I

I liked the pulsing stereo effects in this piece and the way the tonal characteristics of the sound varied while the pitch changed. It’s much more melodic than the other tracks we’ve listened to and that made it more enjoyable to my ears. It got a bit harsh in the middle though. This piece puts the musique in musique concrète.

Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples of the Moon – Part A

Perhaps the sound designer for Star Wars had this in mind when creating the sound effects for R2D2. I kind of lost the flow of the conversation without the witty English-accented retorts from C3PO though. Morton Sobotnick is described as The Mad Scientist in one interview, and I think if I listen to this too often I’ll end up fitting one of the DSM-5 diagnostic categories I’m learning about over in PSYC1002.

Suzanne Ciani – Concert at Phil Niblock’s Loft

This piece had some funky sounds that I liked. The start reminded me a bit of Kraftwerk but without the rhythm and melody; although it did get more melodic later. I’d probably give it a Distinction for its use of technology given it was made in 1975, but only a Credit for musicality.

Barry Schraeder – Lost Atlantis: Introduction

At first, I thought this sounded a lot like a modern ad for KFC; then I realised I was hearing a Spotify ad.

I liked the ambient sounds in this piece and the way it surged in and out with its “mysterious tone colors”. It slowly builds to a crescendo until we get the drop that EDM lovers crave, and then built more quickly to the ultimate drop at the end. I kept wondering what was going to happen next; I’d still rather listen to Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp or Queen though.

Contemporary Examples

Amon Tobin – Foley Room

DJ & producer. Retain percussive quality through sounds. Horsefish & Esther’s. Create beauty and delicate textures from sounds. Pitched percussive material. Fast loops. New textures. Funky beats. Check out the Foley Room Documentary.

Aphex Twin – 1ST 44

Acid house DJ in rave scene. Intelligent Dance Music. More complex sampling, polyrhythms, rhythmic patterns. From Collapsed album. Polyrhythms sounded funky. Lots of variation.

Holly Herndon – Chorus

Intersection of humanity and technology. Recorded web browsing. Stereo ping-pong effects. Here’s a talk she gave about her creative process.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Riparian

This was my favourite out of these three, largely because it sounds the most musical to my ears. I liked the pulsing beat in this track. I can hear a bass line for instance, melodies played on the synth and lyrics, although I can’t tell what they are saying. I also like the way the soundscape swirls around when listened to with headphones. It feels ambient, immersive and musical all at the same time. I get the sense that she’s using the electronics at her disposal in service of the music rather than the other way around. There’s even a great video about how she uses modular synthesis.

Graham Stoney – Foster le Concrète

“How hard can it be?”, I asked myself. And since I had an assignment to do, I wrote my own musique concrète track based on the drum rhythm from one of my favourite songs, Coming of Age by Foster The People. I even made a breakdown video showing how I did it; because that’s what the assignment required.

Conclusion

I didn’t take too easily to some of the more experimental musique concrète pieces we studied at the beginning of this semester. The weekly listening tasks felt harsh to my untrained ears and I would think mean things like:

“Didn’t the Geneva Convention ban cruel and unusual punishment?”

Perhaps these tracks will never be my preferred go-to pieces for chilling out on a Friday night, but when I look back at some of my cynicism-laced early comments in these discussion threads, I cringe. I just didn’t appreciate the historical significance of these pieces and how they might have influenced later electronic music that I do enjoy, like Kraftwerk say.

Then in Angharad Davis’s Music Colloquium Series talk on George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique, when she played a snippet of the work I heard sounds reminiscent of musique concrète. Sure enough, they were roughly contemporaneous, and Antheil had been living in Paris at the time musique concrète was just getting started. You never know when something you study in one arena will pop up elsewhere.

Another thing I’ve learned in this subject is about taking creative risks and learning to follow my gut instincts without worrying whether a concept will work, or other people will like it. This has been an opportunity for me to explore that. My Formative Skills Assignment piece Foster le Concrète was in part a reaction to my frustration at the lack of discernible rhythm in some of the early pieces we studied. However, I really didn’t know whether the concept was going to work, and that was a little anxiety-inducing; especially given that I was doing it for an assignment which would be graded. I was quite touched to hear other students say they liked the end result, and I feel more confident about following my gut instincts in future and seeing what I end up.

Finally, I’ve been really inspired by the creativity of the other students in this subject. It’s been a weird experience studying online this year without ever meeting them in person, but I’ve really enjoyed hearing the creative works everyone came up with. They’re all so distinctive and amazingly different, it’s incredible; yet they were all products of the same brief. I can’t wait to hear everyone’s works on the radio, TV, movies, video games, Spotify, or whatever audio technology is around when we all graduate: live streaming direct to our neurons perhaps?

#Amon Tobin #Aphex Twin #Barry Schraeder #Bernard Parmegiani #Brian Eno #Edgard Varèse #Electronic Music #Eliane Radigue #Experimental Music #György Ligeti #Holly Herndon #Iannis Xenakis #John Oswald #Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith #Karlheinz Stockhausen #Laurie Spiegel #Luc Ferrari #Morton Subotnick #Musique Concrète #Pauline Oliveiros #Pierre Henry #Pierre Schaeffer #Steve Reich #Suzanne Ciani #Tod Dockstader #Music

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György Ligeti, May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006.

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Gyorgy Ligeti - Atmosphères: François-Xavier Roth conducting the LSO in 2016

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Thorvaldsdottir, Pärt & Ligeti

A last minute choice after a frustrating workday. Another Julliard concert, this time AXIOM, the new music group conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky and it was free! And pretty well attended -- contemporary music isn't always forbidding, at least in NYC!

Thorvaldsdottir's "Hrim" was first. It was shorter and more 'wispy' than expected. The notes talk about it being inspired by 'dispersion' (in the biological sense). Moments don't bounce around the small ensemble (12 players) or even evolve as much as they slowly creep, with different players taking up the mantle at different times. Very rarely does it feel like everyone is playing. It's appropriately mood setting in a unique way, though I'm unclear about how substantial it is.

And then it was on to the new music 'warhorses' -- Pärt & Ligeti!

Pärt's "Tabula Rasa" -- I wrote down "God, how meditative". With a gentle rocking accompaniment, it's a piece for 2 solo violins, prepared piano and strings. It is simple, trance inducing, hypnotic and beautiful. It feels like a ritual, and yet it's harmonies (his tintinnabulation) feel modern. The first movement feels more vital and outward facing, while the second movement inspires so much contemplation. (I thought of Reneta Adler's memorable 2001 movie review -- "between hypnotic and immensely boring".) But then I rejected that -- it isn't boring, just repetitive. Milarsky 'conducted' several bars of silence before putting down the baton and even then the audience refused to break the silence until a cough started the wave. I own this, but I've never heard it live. Pärt's music (and he's still alive!!) is surprising even now in it's power.

Ligeti's "Violin Concerto" I have heard before (if my memory is correct -- in Carnegie Hall). I remember it before from it's interesting harmonies, it's effective alternate tuning. Here it came out as more of a summation of musical influences combined w/ mourning and a deep wailing pain. It even veered into Black Angel territory with the violinist screaming out in agony at the end of his massive cadenza in the last movement. (I don't remember that at all!) We still get lots of folk influences & harmonies. It doesn't so much tell a story and seem to relieve emotional territory from movement to movement. (How much the heavily biographical notes here are influencing me isn't completely clear, but it's still agonizingly immediate.)

The violinist, Dylan Hamme (a 3rd year Julliard undergraduate!) did it all from memory. His performance and musical presence were incredible! And as expected great conducting from Milarsky and the ensemble members.

8 April 2024, AXIOM, Jeffrey Milarsky conductor, Alice Tully Hall.

#julliard #axiom #anna thorvaldsdottir #györgy ligeti #arvo pärt

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Ligeti - Artikulation

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Miklós Lukács Cimbiosis Trio & Ligeti Ensemble “Responses to Ligeti”

BMC Records, 2024 Na albumie nagranym z okazji stulecia urodzin György Ligetiego Miklós Lukács Cimbiosis Trio i Ligeti Ensemble sięgają po „Dziesięć utworów na kwintet dęty” autorstwa węgierskiego kompozytora łącząc ich interpretację z własnymi muzycznymi odniesieniami. OUR REVIEW IS AVAIABLE IN ENGLISH Współpraca tria cymbalisty Miklósa Lukácsa oraz dętego kwintetu  Ligeti Ensemble  podjęta…

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Tchaikovsky:

- the first movement orchestral tutti is SO BEAUTIFUL every time I listen to it I cannot help but smile. it waters my crops and cleans my pores. I don't know how one moment in a piece is able to hold such emotional power over a person but that's Tchaikovsky for you ig. - also the trill where it resolves at the end of the cadenza. and then the flute comes in with the main melody. it's so comforting - almost hopeful?? - the melodic lines and countermelodies are so nice there's really nice bassoon and cello lines in the first movement I'm thinking of and there's also a moment in the third movement where the melody gets passed between the clarinet and oboe - the entire concerto is like a warm hug :)

I've left the submission form tab open for three days and I still can't find words to describe how beautiful Tchaik VC is. THE TUTTI IN MVT 1 MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME

Ligeti: None

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Metamorfosi - VI

György Ligeti (1923 - 2006): Quartetto per archi n. 1, Metamorphoses nocturnes (1953-54). Kodak String Quartet.

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Sonic Matter Festival: Valade/Dollberg: Ligeti/Ben-Shabetai/Fallah/Fedele - Tonhalle Zürich 01.12.2023

Sonic Matter Festival: Valade/Dollberg: Ligeti/Ben-Shabetai/Fallah/Fedele - Tonhalle Zürich 01.12.2023 #konzert #tonhallezürich #festival #leap #musicwasmyfirstloveanditwillbemylast #concert

Auch in diesem Jahr bietet das “SONIC MATTER – Festival für experimentelle Musik Zürich” sehr interessante Konzerte – das Motto dieser Ausgabe lautet LEAP. Die Welt ist in Aufruhr – Armut, Krieg, Pandemie, Klimawandel. In diesem Jahr nimmt das Festival deshalb Bewältigungsstrategien in den Blick. Wie kann die Vernetzung der Welt genutzt werden als Chance, das Andersartige kennenzulernen? Welche…

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