Very great stuff! I'm getting much more into this kinda stuff as well as free jazz/avant-garde, etc. - better than most rock/pop shit out today! Though, I have a wide variety of tastes- I'm into lots of indie stuff that's been around in the past 25 years or more, older "classic" rock, "new wave", "punk", etc. etc...but this avant-garde classical stuff, like Xenakis or Varese or Penderecki (I suppose Varese is more "Musique Concrete") - but the more I discover the more I get and the more complete my music collection gets -it's a never ending work in progress!
Haden Plouffe I have a few Stockhausen CDs, etc, but I haven't actually heard of Berio. But, I'm always up for new (to me), interesting/exciting music to get into, so I'll check out Berio, e.g., look through the internet. Thanks
I'd recommend starting with his Sequenzas, they're an extremely unique take on the idea of virtuoso works for individual instruments. Really everything he did is extraordinary, but I think the Sequenzas are probably in the top five most significant contributions to solo instrument repertoire since the beginning of the 20th century.
Among the orchestral works of Xenakis, "Lichens" is pergaps one of the less speculative. Listening to this piece is probably less difficult than yo others written by the composer. We are always disoriented by Xenakis works, but if we liten carefully to his outputs, we can gear various styles, variuos progressions, etc. This piece is one of the most "intuitive" of the composer.
Gérard Begni Thanks for your comment. But I honestly think that there are other "less speculative" works like Jonchaies, Ata and Keqrops. Actually, his works from the eighties onwards tend to sound very similar to Lichens.
Just played this for my five year old. She hated it, I asked why “because it wasn’t very pedetting.” Pedetting, what’s that? “It’s a word that queens use, it’s not very nice or charming.” Well she’s not wrong- but I happen to quite like it despite it being not very pedetting. In fact because of it.
One of the most brutal piece of music i've ever heard.Masterpiece! Pure intensity!
Very powerful composition , wonderful performance and beautiful painting by Andre Masson.
Perfect to listen to with the lights off. An epic piece!
Killer piece.
Very great stuff! I'm getting much more into this kinda stuff as well as free jazz/avant-garde, etc. - better than most rock/pop shit out today! Though, I have a wide variety of tastes- I'm into lots of indie stuff that's been around in the past 25 years or more, older "classic" rock, "new wave", "punk", etc. etc...but this avant-garde classical stuff, like Xenakis or Varese or Penderecki (I suppose Varese is more "Musique Concrete") - but the more I discover the more I get and the more complete my music collection gets -it's a never ending work in progress!
Have you gotten into any Stockhausen or Berio yet? Those guys are also stunning.
Haden Plouffe I have a few Stockhausen CDs, etc, but I haven't actually heard of Berio. But, I'm always up for new (to me), interesting/exciting music to get into, so I'll check out Berio, e.g., look through the internet. Thanks
I'd recommend starting with his Sequenzas, they're an extremely unique take on the idea of virtuoso works for individual instruments. Really everything he did is extraordinary, but I think the Sequenzas are probably in the top five most significant contributions to solo instrument repertoire since the beginning of the 20th century.
Haden Plouffe ...really? Thanks. I will keep an eye out for Sequenzas by Berio.
I agree. The sequenzas by Berio are an excellent experience and an excellent introduction.
loved it!
thank you!!
良い曲だ！
Among the orchestral works of Xenakis, "Lichens" is pergaps one of the less speculative. Listening to this piece is probably less difficult than yo others written by the composer. We are always disoriented by Xenakis works, but if we liten carefully to his outputs, we can gear various styles, variuos progressions, etc. This piece is one of the most "intuitive" of the composer.
Gérard Begni Thanks for your comment. But I honestly think that there are other "less speculative" works like Jonchaies, Ata and Keqrops. Actually, his works from the eighties onwards tend to sound very similar to Lichens.
I agree with you. This is the resason why I wrote that Xenakis had several periods.
Speculative? wtf, name one "speculative" work?
I am thinking mainly to the works in which he used statistical laws, in particular Bolzmann law, or dendritic rotation -projection.
1:30 is the same as the opening to Alax
Just played this for my five year old. She hated it, I asked why “because it wasn’t very pedetting.”
Pedetting, what’s that?
“It’s a word that queens use, it’s not very nice or charming.”
Well she’s not wrong- but I happen to quite like it despite it being not very pedetting. In fact because of it.
what a pick-me-up！