If you really want to mess with someone, get a loud speaker, and a fog machine. Pick your victim, fill their yard completely with fog, put this song on, and slowly turn the speaker to full volume
tu peux toujours rester sous l'eau pour dancer , la musique de ligeti est idéale pour cela , et après une heure de dance sous l'eau en pratiquant l'apnée tu verras un monde nouveau auquel tu n'avais pas pensé ce qui t'aidera à oublier ton mariage ,, écoute claude françois tu pourras te trémousser à loisir
How about you realize english isnt the only language. You probably only speak one language so why are you expecting them to learn another? Get it together or change your username from "love" to "self-centered"
Somebody told me this wasn't in the actual Godzilla movie prior to its release. The second I heard the choir start up again in the HALO jump scene I nearly jumped out of my seat and applauded.
This piece, and Lux Aeterna, prove that the human voice remains the most beautiful, versatile, and moving of all musical instruments. Meditation music.
He had returned to us, but he was different. His face had been altered ever so slightly. None of us could quite pinpoint what it was. Perhaps it was his mannerisms, or his smile, or the way his eyes....oh my god. His eyes. I was too frightened but I had to look closer. There was no mistaking it. His eyes were a different color. He must have noticed my fearful expression because he too recoiled in confusion. "What's wrong?" He asked innocently. The crew's murmurs of success had died away, and all were looking at me. I looked the being straight in its wrong, inhuman eyes and exclaimed, "Who are you?" For what happened next, I blame myself, for daring to utter those words so boldly
I love this work, the first time I had the privilege to hear it, I was coming out from a bookstore in Bogota- Colombia, I remember I was in my way to a meeting, but it was so different so magical, that I decided to listen to the entire work...I was late to the meeting, but, I found Ligeti's wonderful work.
"Gentlemen, you are being sent in via HALO jump. Now I realize not all of you have had hands-on experience...but frankly, none of us have ever faced a situation quite like this one before. But I would not be asking any one of you to take this leap if I did not have complete faith in your ability to succeed. Your courage will never be more needed than it is today."
Kevin Sandoval There are actually four of them, and two movies (based on the first and second book each). I recommend you to read them if you find them!
If an intellectual is someone who can listen to Rossini's William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger, what is someone who can listen to this without thinking of monoliths.
DON'T listen to it at night shortly before going to sleep, unless you can really cope with that. You won't have a chance of falling asleep, and if you will, you're going to have such a nightmare you'll regret you ever fell asleep tonight.
***** Good question.. Nothing but that which is already present in myself. I don't believe that music can create visions, it can only trigger individual responses. A lot of those are nothing but the repetition of visual trash accumulated during your life. If you manage to lay that up, by not trying to relate the music you are listening to to anything you already know true visions may come.
I watched A Space Oddessy several months ago and it was quite incredible, hadn't seen anything like it! Creative and original like nothing else. Has any movie since really taken the next step in film making? Perhaps not!
The movies amazing until you get to the part with this song, the music amazing, but the situation of the astronaut randomly in some perfect looking room makes no sense whatsoever.
@@MasterChiefSha I think it makes more sense if you read the book. The Monolith is supposed to be this incomprehensible thing that completely messed with his mind. He was enlightened to the secrets of the universe and was unable to comprehend it.
Salty Shunk Yes. The book is incredible, written in tandem with his script. Clark brings a schoolboy enthusiasm to nature, space and space exploration, and science fiction. I love the film, but they are two completely different beasts.
You may or may not like this music (I personally don't), but I am an experienced chorister, and this choir (and soloists) are absolutely outstanding. Very few choirs and solists (even professional ones) can pull this off!
I don't understand. It's so eerily relaxing. I can lay in my room. In the darkness. Calm and energetic. The rush that gives off from this song is so chillingly cold. It runs up my spine and through my hair. "Tap. Tap." Breathing becomes heavier, pulling me into my bed deeper as if someone were to stand above me. The blunt smell of my cigarette I had before becomes a fog of haziness. So it continues
I have the full score it is about 3 feet long....and is an incredibly dense piece to analyse! I am currently studying this piece....and I anticipate listening to it 50-70 times...before I can get a handle on it...I recently performed Brittens War Requiem...That is Kindergarten compared to this...This must be diabolical....and yes I purposely used that word...to perform! I have "just" the vocal score too, and it is like 2 feet by 2 feet squared...it and of itself is a large score!
Wow! I never heard this whole piece before. If it is in 2001 Space odyssey I heard a bit of it and now know why it was a perfect fit for what was happening in the movie. Pure genius. I like it.
Si Debussy, Malher o Stravinsky no hubieran arriesgado e inventado nuevas fórmulas musicales, seguiríamos escuchando lo mismo de hace 200 años. ¡Magnífico!
I see this music for many things. For Godzilla, this music fits perfect.Godzilla was created by man's thirst for nuclear power.Created by us, humans, and our never ending hunger and thirst for nuclear power, nuclear weapons, the list goes on.Godzilla is a symbol of us humans.He causes destruction to cities, just like us humans in modern war, bombing runs, naval shelling of coastal towns, etc.When he fights his adversaries, he attacks with brute force, mercy is rare when he fights, just like us humans, but we have the emotions to spare.He represents both Mother Nature, as a vengeful beast wishing to take back a industrial people, and man, trying to overcome himself with violence,destruction, and sorrow.He truly represents us humans.What songs would come to your mind if he attacked? For me, this. As for a 2001, it also fits for the wormhole. Being sucked into a place for what seems like days, weeks, months & even years.Going faster, and faster, and faster.Continuing in until the universe ends itself. As it seems to go on a loop created by the devil himself. As the Erie choir sings on.Never ending, no end in sight, continuing on forever, as if the word "End." Never existed.Seeing the evolution of man, in its brightest, and darkest days. It fits for the wormhole, perfectly. But, in my opinion. These songs represent everything.Everything bad. Everything good.War, death, disease, famine, sacrifice, occult, fear, sadness, anger. Happiness, love, luck, peace, evolution, religion, development, family, shelter, food, water. They all come together as one. Just like us, humans. (That took long to write, also I really am a big fan of the Godzilla series, I don't mind if you dislike it, and I really want to watch 2001 at some point in the future,Ok you can leave now ._. Also really quick, someone should make a counter on how many times I wrote "Human." Lol.)
The Alan Parsons Project recorded a piece called "Total Eclipse" off their second album I Robot from 1977. It bears an uncanny resemblance to "Requiem" which meant the piece was clearly inspired by Ligeti. I remembered "Total Eclipse" frightened me as a child (as my father bought I Robot early in 1984 when I was 11). Watching 2001 that Ligeti choir music is even more frightening.
At the time I posted that comment, I didn't realize that Andrew Powell actually studied with Ligeti while in Germany, so it's likely no coincidence that Ligeti was a big inspiration while recording "Total Eclipse".
what other music reflects the thousands of years of atrocities we have committed against one another... and continue to do so in this young century? it is a requiem for the species.
I would not wish to be the poor bastards singing this with so many passages without instrumental references. Hell, even WITH reference, pieces like this demand the highest personal focus to maintain pitch just in terms of the tonal tapestry itself. Add to that the various crescendos/decrescendos, legatos, staccatos and Mithras knows what else, and the skill required to perform this blows my mind. On an unrelated note, if creative high schools forced the little wieners in detention to listen to this at full volume throughout the entire 1hr/3hr/whathaveyou span (with repeat on; ffs, how would they know?), I think it might finally work as the deterrent it fails to be.
This is still the most powerful piece I have ever heard. Like it is diving thru all of the depths over the entirety of the universe itself. The Atonalities reinforce the alien qualities of our creators and progenitors.
this is strangely calming. it's like a negative space. for all my life I have heard harmony in almost all music. Even the most impressionistic music has chords that return to harmonizing and rhythm. I never realized how tired I was of that until I heard music with the utter lack of harmony and rhythm like this work. This is like the Yin to the Yang of the rest of music.
I saw this live in London in 1989. Ligeti was on the aisle opposite me signing "2001" emblemed programs for kids. And look! There was Oliver Knussen leaning rrrright over the orchestra from the balcony, dangling some plastic bags which probably contained his groceries...
Of course this intense spacey music stands alone but I can't not think of 2001 Odyssey in Space (1968) when I hear this. Those beautiful, perfect, black alien obelisks amid the lunar desolation while the music seemed to bring swarms of alien spirit creatures almost to the point of a breakthrough.
la musique de ligeti d'abord flippante est d'autant plus fascinante ;; pour cela il vaut mieux fermer les yeux et en grand passionné de science fiction je me laisse transporter à travers l'espace intersidéral , j'allais dire vide intersidéral mais après la découverte récente d'une matière noire , c est à dire inconnue , je me garderais bien de parler de vide entre les galaxies , et sur ce qui existe au delà laissons voguer notre intuition , merci
This piece just grips you very forcefully like it is plumbing the depths of universe itself. The atonalities are beautiful and yet utterly alien at the same time. As infinity can't reach the end.
I don't like atonal music that much, but this is when it actually works. Because this doesn't just sound like distortion, random notes or pointless noise (or at least the beginning doesn't). It's a coordinated choir, coordinated microtonality or something, and... fuuuck oh god this is trippy and scary as hell. when it starts crescendoing at 8:30-ish it's like lovecraftian-level terror. EDIT: And then 12:25 simultaneously scared the shit out of me and made me start laughing. Wonderful.
David Foster Wallace used this word in his book Infinite Jest to describe a feeling of affliction. I was sublimely afflicted by this piece, i.e. grasped dimensions of insanity.
newvultraz There is actually quite a lot of atonal music that sounds really good and although it may not have memorable melody, it does have memorable "effects" or timbre. Berg imo is by far the best of the second Viennese school, his Violin Concerto is genuinely beautiful, and some of his more "free atonality" stuff over serialism like his String Quartet Op. 4 (or some low number like that) is also very beautiful, you can hear the romantic phrasing even amongst the atonal voices. His Piano Sonata Op. 1 (not atonal but getting close) is amazing.
Ligeti sait bien retranscrire ce qu'il entend par "inhumanité". La seule humanité connue est la nôtre, mais tant et tant de mystères et de frayeurs nous attendent, des formes de vie à coup sûr totalement différentes de nous
I think this is perhaps, along with 'The Rite Of Spring' and perhaps some of the Symphonies of Mahler, the GREATEST piece of music of the 20th century!!! I love Birtwistle's album 'Night's Blackbird' with 'Night's Blackbird', 'The Shadow Of Night' and 'The Cry Of Anubis' on it. Composers like Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, and Peter Maxwell Davies have saved 20th century music!!! Cheers - Mike
Luiz Duczmal I've just listened to 'Nomos', Luiz. A magnificent piece!!! Birtwistle's music has so much more depth to it than the pop stuff!!! Although I do like Duran Duran, particularly as they remind me of about 20 minutes one afternoon spent in the NEC in Birmingham, and the lovely dull, empty, cool, building!!! Particularly as they were soon to play there. A happy memory!!! I basically love orchestral music though!!! Cheers - Mike
Daniel Hodge Thanks Dan!!! Your a 'Gentleman'!!! I think perhaps 'The Planets' ( 1914 - 1916 ) although played a hell of a lot, is a stand out suite of GREAT music!!! Although Holst ( 1874 - 1934 ) wasn't all that thrilled with 'The Planets' ( 1914 - 1916 ), he rated 'Saturn ( The Bringer Of Old Age )' as by far the most original piece, which I agree with, although I like 'Venus ( The Bringer Of Peace )' best!!! On 'Classic FM', which I quickly got to hate, it's like, what's the ideal piece of music to play just under 8 minutes, oh yea' 'Jupiter ( The Bringer Of Jollity' )', needless to say, wonderful music as it is, they played it as much as possible, as it is so popular!!! I've never heard them play Birtwistle's ( b.1934 ) fantastic music all the time I listened to the show. Even very famous operas like Mozart's ( 1756 - 1791 ) 'Marriage Of Figaro' ( 1786 ), it tended to be the overture that they played!!! That programme has become me and my father's pet hate!!! I have entered some lesser regarded masterpieces for their 'Hall Of Fame' though. One was this, Ligeti's ( 1923 - 2006 ) 'Requiem' ( 1965 ). One was Auber's ( 1782 - 1871 ) 'Crown Diamonds Overture' ( 1841 ) and the other was Cesar Cui's ( 1835 - 1918 ) 'Kaleidoscope'.
Perfect haunted house background music, or for when its time to clear out house guests who have over stayed their welcome. Would not recommend to anyone on prescription medication for mental disorders
The soundtrack of millions of damned souls being driven into the icy depths of Hell at the crest of the coming Judgement Day. If there is a God, he is apathetic.
Recent trip to California, hitting the 405 Northbound across Sepulveda Pass on the early side of rush hour. Me (California Native moved to Arizona some 20 years previous): "It's gotten a little crazier since the last time I was here" My wife, Indiana native who grew up in Florida: Frozen in the passenger seat in abject terror, this music coursing through her consciousness.
If you really want to mess with someone, get a loud speaker, and a fog machine. Pick your victim, fill their yard completely with fog, put this song on, and slowly turn the speaker to full volume
lol you are awesome
Dylan S got hem
'This one goes all the way up to eleven.'
@Oliver Eales Magnets, my friend. Very strong magnets.
"pick your victim" got me
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." - William Shakespeare
Tempest, I, 2
This is what I have my alarm clock set to. It gets me up every morning energized and ready to tackle the new day.
Rick Diaz nice idea
Interesting, I use it to put me to sleep.
Ready to launch!!!! Good idea. Set for the journey of the day.
hahahahaha.
It looks lije tge day tackled you
The whole crew be lit af when this song play in da club.
"Y'all ready for some of that unreleased shit?"
-Clubs in 1965, probably
You mean in da cult?
@@randomaccessfemale da cult!
@@randomaccessfemale Yes, and occult.
Hey! This was my wedding song. Man, this was hard to dance to.
I might try that!
tu peux toujours rester sous l'eau pour dancer , la musique de ligeti est idéale pour cela , et après une heure de dance sous l'eau en pratiquant l'apnée tu verras un monde nouveau auquel tu n'avais pas pensé ce qui t'aidera à oublier ton mariage ,, écoute claude françois tu pourras te trémousser à loisir
suayasia learn some fucking english
How about you realize english isnt the only language. You probably only speak one language so why are you expecting them to learn another?
Get it together or change your username from "love" to "self-centered"
bligly actually I'm Dutch and speak 5 languages, replying in french to an english comment is ridiculous on several levels imo.
Reading Lovecraft with this music is perfection.
"The Colour out of Space"
Dude, Watching "Event Horizon" to this piece is quiet an atrocious cosmic horror hell ride.
Whew! Strong lady. My shadowy closet would fill up with .... I'd better not even say their names...
Playing Minecraft with this music is perfect
How about Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights?
When I open my refrigerator door, I hear this. When I close the door, it stops.
That made me laugh - now I feel slightly psychopathic, thanks mate
You can try to use your dishwashing machine. It seems your meditation expierence can be extended ...)))
The is no Dana, only Zuul.
Ligetigerator?
And it say "ZUL"
I just want the complete works of Ligeti the man was clearly a musical genius
Somebody told me this wasn't in the actual Godzilla movie prior to its release.
The second I heard the choir start up again in the HALO jump scene I nearly jumped out of my seat and applauded.
It's also at the airport roar scene; as the camera is panning upwards to Godzilla's face, this is playing
King Gojira , it's good to see someone knows how Godzilla is pronounced in Japanese. The r sounds L-ish, for clarification.
its such a good choice
This piece, and Lux Aeterna, prove that the human voice remains the most beautiful, versatile, and moving of all musical instruments. Meditation music.
Interruptions by a commercial in the middle of such music, is an absolute NO-GO!
use musi, ios only but well worth it for free music with no ads
I can only describe this as... monolithic :)
LOL
Operatic Vlogs
Eldritch monoliths.
The Monolith Builders: the only fictional characters that I can imagine driving the Lovecraftian eldritch abominations mad.
badum tss
He had returned to us, but he was different. His face had been altered ever so slightly. None of us could quite pinpoint what it was. Perhaps it was his mannerisms, or his smile, or the way his eyes....oh my god. His eyes. I was too frightened but I had to look closer. There was no mistaking it. His eyes were a different color. He must have noticed my fearful expression because he too recoiled in confusion. "What's wrong?" He asked innocently. The crew's murmurs of success had died away, and all were looking at me. I looked the being straight in its wrong, inhuman eyes and exclaimed, "Who are you?"
For what happened next, I blame myself, for daring to utter those words so boldly
The King of the Penguins Is this from something? If so I'd like to read it. If not you could have fooled me.
Big Urrn You flatter me. I made this up off the top of my head while listening to this. It's pretty inspiring
This is very similar to Lovecraft. I like it.
That is brilliant and quite creepy. I agree, it strongly reminds me of Lovecraft.
You, sir, are an excellent penguin.
I have loved this since I was kid in the 60s. Often admired any chorus that could perform it.
Spinetingling...I can almost feel the universe watching me when I listen to this....it's overwhelming
I recognized this immediately from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. A must see for all you post baby boomers! A haunting composition indeed!
imagine how well versed in 20th century classical music Stanley Kubrick must have been to use it only 3 years after it had been composed.
0:00 "Introitus"
6:06 "Kyrie"
12:25 "Dies Irae"
21:17 "Lacrimosa"
Thank you so much. :')
Kyrie is making me transforming into sand. Logic no?
imagine listening to this while in a bad trip
Don't.
Ha ha.
imagine listeningto this while in a good trip
Or a good one.
Yeah on mushrooms.
I love this work, the first time I had the privilege to hear it, I was coming out from a bookstore in Bogota- Colombia, I remember I was in my way to a meeting, but it was so different so magical, that I decided to listen to the entire work...I was late to the meeting, but, I found Ligeti's wonderful work.
Thank you TheLozano066 !!!!
¿Qué edad tienes?
This music is so special... I wouldn't be able to listen to it wight lights off and home alone... scares me a lot!!! but I'm also loving it
Tijn van Seeters You're so brave!!!
+Rey Benkos How do you know? He could literally be doing anything.
I always tried doing this but I can't go ahead of around 4:30 without pausing at least once.
This sends me to sleep, it's so relaxing. I only ever listen to this with lights off, home alone, or at least only one awake.
"Gentlemen, you are being sent in via HALO jump.
Now I realize not all of you have had hands-on experience...but frankly, none of us have ever faced a situation quite like this one before.
But I would not be asking any one of you to take this leap if I did not have complete faith in your ability to succeed.
Your courage will never be more needed than it is today."
The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control, and not the other way around...
Let them fight...
My god, it's full of stars!
GibbSaw I was about to say that. What a great book saga
Kevin Sandoval There are actually four of them, and two movies (based on the first and second book each). I recommend you to read them if you find them!
Dave: What's the problem HAL? HAL: Dave! This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye!
The thing's hollow,
it goes on forever,
and,
If an intellectual is someone who can listen to Rossini's William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger, what is someone who can listen to this without thinking of monoliths.
An uncultured swine.
A Madman!
Me. I watched Space Odyssey, but I just don't associate this music with it. Lovecraft is what comes to my mind when listening to this
Super intellectual.
DON'T listen to it at night shortly before going to sleep, unless you can really cope with that. You won't have a chance of falling asleep, and if you will, you're going to have such a nightmare you'll regret you ever fell asleep tonight.
Duhh! i'm going LUCID!
What do you see when you close your eyes closely after or even while listening to it?
***** chaos.
***** Good question..
Nothing but that which is already present in myself. I don't believe that music
can create visions, it can only trigger individual responses.
A lot of those are nothing but the repetition of visual trash accumulated during your life. If you manage to lay that up, by not trying to relate the music you are listening to
to anything you already know true visions may come.
The universe is expanding...
And faster for a long time.
"That should help with the traffic." - Steven Wright.
What has that go to do with anything? You're here in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is not expanding!
From 10 minutes it's getting really scary.
"I'm afraid I can't do that Dave."
I watched A Space Oddessy several months ago and it was quite incredible, hadn't seen anything like it! Creative and original like nothing else. Has any movie since really taken the next step in film making? Perhaps not!
You'll enjoy Tree of life then.
The movies amazing until you get to the part with this song, the music amazing, but the situation of the astronaut randomly in some perfect looking room makes no sense whatsoever.
@@MasterChiefSha I think it makes more sense if you read the book. The Monolith is supposed to be this incomprehensible thing that completely messed with his mind. He was enlightened to the secrets of the universe and was unable to comprehend it.
Salty Shunk
Yes. The book is incredible, written in tandem with his script. Clark brings a schoolboy enthusiasm to nature, space and space exploration, and science fiction. I love the film, but they are two completely different beasts.
@@MasterChiefSha Yes, but that is precisely what makes it so interesting.
You may or may not like this music (I personally don't), but I am an experienced chorister, and this choir (and soloists) are absolutely outstanding. Very few choirs and solists (even professional ones) can pull this off!
I don't understand. It's so eerily relaxing. I can lay in my room. In the darkness. Calm and energetic. The rush that gives off from this song is so chillingly cold. It runs up my spine and through my hair.
"Tap. Tap."
Breathing becomes heavier, pulling me into my bed deeper as if someone were to stand above me.
The blunt smell of my cigarette I had before becomes a fog of haziness.
So it continues
I imagine this must be a pain in the ass to conduct.
I have the full score it is about 3 feet long....and is an incredibly dense piece to analyse! I am currently studying this piece....and I anticipate listening to it 50-70 times...before I can get a handle on it...I recently performed Brittens War Requiem...That is Kindergarten compared to this...This must be diabolical....and yes I purposely used that word...to perform! I have "just" the vocal score too, and it is like 2 feet by 2 feet squared...it and of itself is a large score!
@@jonathanmosebach7107 what did you study? :P
@@jonathanmosebach7107 but paper is 8x11 inches...
@@DreamlessSleepwalker you think all paper is the same size? Are you high or something
@@powerinmisery Yep.
Wow! I never heard this whole piece before. If it is in 2001 Space odyssey I heard a bit of it and now know why it was a perfect fit for what was happening in the movie. Pure genius. I like it.
Ray Tutaj Jr same composer but different piece
Bravo bellissima musica
HAL 9000 brought me here...
Si Debussy, Malher o Stravinsky no hubieran arriesgado e inventado nuevas fórmulas musicales, seguiríamos escuchando lo mismo de hace 200 años. ¡Magnífico!
Debussy es el hijo revelde de Saint Saëns.
I can't even imagine how someone can be able to compose music like this… Amazing!
Perhaps the greatest Requiem mass ever
Who's afraid of this? I'm not. Gorgeous music. Absolutely amazing and powerful. From the guts.
When you put the program into the music, this is the result.
Mike Fuller's Party Album.
SIDE 1
1, Panic ( 1995 ) - Harrison Birtwistle ( b.1934 )
2, Requiem ( 1963 / 1965 ) - Gyorgy Ligeti ( 1923 - 2006 )
3, Aventures ( 1962 ) - Gyorgy Ligeti ( 1923 - 2006 )
4, Nouvelles Aventures ( 1962 / 1965 ) - Gyorgy Ligeti ( 1923 - 2006 )
SIDE 2
1, The Rite Of Spring ( 1913 ) - Stravinsky ( 1882 - 1971 )
2, Atom Heart Mother ( 1970 ) - Pink Floyd
Are We All Having Fun Yet?!
Mike Fuller Man, I am going to make an Spotify Playlist with your party album. You must be really fun at parties, and so am I.
Cheers - Dude!
Happy New Year!
Mike Fuller .
Delia Derbyshire - Falling (1964)
How can this be so beautiful and unearthly and the same time?
This is not a fucking Godzilla music ! Respect for magister Ligeti.
Your right. It's not from Godzilla. It's from 2001.
Beyond The Infinite 3061
IT'S FROM LIGETI - IT'S HIS PIECE AND HIS ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see this music for many things.
For Godzilla, this music fits perfect.Godzilla was created by man's thirst for nuclear power.Created by us, humans, and our never ending hunger and thirst for nuclear power, nuclear weapons, the list goes on.Godzilla is a symbol of us humans.He causes destruction to cities, just like us humans in modern war, bombing runs, naval shelling of coastal towns, etc.When he fights his adversaries, he attacks with brute force, mercy is rare when he fights, just like us humans, but we have the emotions to spare.He represents both Mother Nature, as a vengeful beast wishing to take back a industrial people, and man, trying to overcome himself with violence,destruction, and sorrow.He truly represents us humans.What songs would come to your mind if he attacked? For me, this.
As for a 2001, it also fits for the wormhole.
Being sucked into a place for what seems like days, weeks, months & even years.Going faster, and faster, and faster.Continuing in until the universe ends itself. As it seems to go on a loop created by the devil himself. As the Erie choir sings on.Never ending, no end in sight, continuing on forever, as if the word "End." Never existed.Seeing the evolution of man, in its brightest, and darkest days. It fits for the wormhole, perfectly.
But, in my opinion. These songs represent everything.Everything bad. Everything good.War, death, disease, famine, sacrifice, occult, fear, sadness, anger. Happiness, love, luck, peace, evolution, religion, development, family, shelter, food, water.
They all come together as one.
Just like us, humans.
(That took long to write, also I really am a big fan of the Godzilla series, I don't mind if you dislike it, and I really want to watch 2001 at some point in the future,Ok you can leave now ._. Also really quick, someone should make a counter on how many times I wrote "Human." Lol.)
Capolavoro assoluto. Tra le musiche più belle di sempre.
Music of the D.N.A. of the Universe,A Masterpiece. 2001=Stanley Kubrick and LIGETI Were Visionarys of The Whole Time of Human Kind!!!
The Alan Parsons Project recorded a piece called "Total Eclipse" off their second album I Robot from 1977. It bears an uncanny resemblance to "Requiem" which meant the piece was clearly inspired by Ligeti. I remembered "Total Eclipse" frightened me as a child (as my father bought I Robot early in 1984 when I was 11). Watching 2001 that Ligeti choir music is even more frightening.
At the time I posted that comment, I didn't realize that Andrew Powell actually studied with Ligeti while in Germany, so it's likely no coincidence that Ligeti was a big inspiration while recording "Total Eclipse".
This song exudes very efficiently the general atmosphere typical of Sci-fi/Cosmic Horror novel.
Incredible wonderful and 2001 exceptional.. hear the future ..
what other music reflects the thousands of years of atrocities we have committed against one another... and continue to do so in this young century? it is a requiem for the species.
a tribe called quest rapped over this on their new song called ego and that's awesome. it has a bass line and drums too not just this but still.
I would not wish to be the poor bastards singing this with so many passages without instrumental references. Hell, even WITH reference, pieces like this demand the highest personal focus to maintain pitch just in terms of the tonal tapestry itself. Add to that the various crescendos/decrescendos, legatos, staccatos and Mithras knows what else, and the skill required to perform this blows my mind.
On an unrelated note, if creative high schools forced the little wieners in detention to listen to this at full volume throughout the entire 1hr/3hr/whathaveyou span (with repeat on; ffs, how would they know?), I think it might finally work as the deterrent it fails to be.
Thanks, AnkleSpur, dozens of comments and finally yours which suggests that someone understands what Ligeti is doing. It is, after all, a requiem.
I guess people who step into Hell after death, are welcomed there by this musical work.
I cant tell if this is beautiful or frightening
True beauty is frightening
I think it's more the sublime than the beauty.
Beauty is the beginning of terror.
It's from Rilke, dind't it ?
It's both
This is still the most powerful piece I have ever heard. Like it is diving thru all of the depths over the entirety of the universe itself. The Atonalities reinforce the alien qualities of our creators and progenitors.
otherworldly - beyond beauty and terror
this is strangely calming. it's like a negative space. for all my life I have heard harmony in almost all music. Even the most impressionistic music has chords that return to harmonizing and rhythm. I never realized how tired I was of that until I heard music with the utter lack of harmony and rhythm like this work. This is like the Yin to the Yang of the rest of music.
It doesn't have "an utter lack of harmony and rhythm", it's just unconventional harmony and rhythm.
FranckByNature I don't hear harmony in this. I hear dissonance.
There is far more harmony in it than there is dissonance.
@@Fear_the_Nog Texture. Voice lying on the others. Rhythm.
GENIUS!
God, rehearsing this must be a nightmare!
Boy, I'll bet the director for GODZILLA 2014 fought tooth and nail with the studio suits to get this incredible music into the film.
I saw this live in London in 1989. Ligeti was on the aisle opposite me signing "2001" emblemed programs for kids. And look! There was Oliver Knussen leaning rrrright over the orchestra from the balcony, dangling some plastic bags which probably contained his groceries...
Jonathan Melia .
It is a scandal that the" Kyrie" from Legeti's Requiem was not used in the Highway of Death sequence in the movie Jarhead.
Does the conductor just go up and make _really_ intense faces for 30 minutes?
I find this to be incredibly comforting and soothing when I sleep.
Love this music and Gyorgi Ligeti's brilliant work! :)
Undoubtedly the best music work written and played ever .
I honestly love this piece
Of course this intense spacey music stands alone but I can't not think of 2001 Odyssey in Space (1968) when I hear this. Those beautiful, perfect, black alien obelisks amid the lunar desolation while the music seemed to bring swarms of alien spirit creatures almost to the point of a breakthrough.
+gnikcohs This pretty much WAS the monoliths theme.
Same composer, different work
@@josephsummer777 no, this is the same piece.
@@josephsummer777 no it’s the same work
@@joeyjbeck yes. I was incorrect in thinking it was from another piece.
I believe this might be:
Chorus - Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor [Chorus] - Wolfgang Schubert (2)
Conductor [Orchestra] - Michael Gielen
Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Barbro Ericson
Orchestra - Sinfonie-Orchester Des Hessischen Rundfunks*
Soprano Vocals - Liliana Poli
An amazing work of art.
Godzilla 2014 actually brought me here. The HALO jump scene. Pretty much descending into hell and this was a perfect match.
é medonho, é insano, é doente e musical ! logo... MARAVILHOSO!
la musique de ligeti d'abord flippante est d'autant plus fascinante ;; pour cela il vaut mieux fermer les yeux et en grand passionné de science fiction je me laisse transporter à travers l'espace intersidéral , j'allais dire vide intersidéral mais après la découverte récente d'une matière noire , c est à dire inconnue , je me garderais bien de parler de vide entre les galaxies , et sur ce qui existe au delà laissons voguer notre intuition , merci
Masterpiece !
Thanks a lot
This piece just grips you very forcefully like it is plumbing the depths of universe itself. The atonalities are beautiful and yet utterly alien at the same time. As infinity can't reach the end.
I don't like atonal music that much, but this is when it actually works. Because this doesn't just sound like distortion, random notes or pointless noise (or at least the beginning doesn't). It's a coordinated choir, coordinated microtonality or something, and... fuuuck oh god this is trippy and scary as hell. when it starts crescendoing at 8:30-ish it's like lovecraftian-level terror.
EDIT: And then 12:25 simultaneously scared the shit out of me and made me start laughing. Wonderful.
Lovecraftian-level, well put. It gave me the howling fantods.
br34
What are 'Fantods'???
David Foster Wallace used this word in his book Infinite Jest to describe a feeling of affliction. I was sublimely afflicted by this piece, i.e. grasped dimensions of insanity.
Very well said!
newvultraz There is actually quite a lot of atonal music that sounds really good and although it may not have memorable melody, it does have memorable "effects" or timbre. Berg imo is by far the best of the second Viennese school, his Violin Concerto is genuinely beautiful, and some of his more "free atonality" stuff over serialism like his String Quartet Op. 4 (or some low number like that) is also very beautiful, you can hear the romantic phrasing even amongst the atonal voices. His Piano Sonata Op. 1 (not atonal but getting close) is amazing.
Ligeti sait bien retranscrire ce qu'il entend par "inhumanité". La seule humanité connue est la nôtre, mais tant et tant de mystères et de frayeurs nous attendent, des formes de vie à coup sûr totalement différentes de nous
I love this
I think this is perhaps, along with 'The Rite Of Spring' and perhaps some of the Symphonies of Mahler, the GREATEST piece of music of the 20th century!!! I love Birtwistle's album 'Night's Blackbird' with 'Night's Blackbird', 'The Shadow Of Night' and 'The Cry Of Anubis' on it. Composers like Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, and Peter Maxwell Davies have saved 20th century music!!!
Cheers - Mike
I think Holst's 'The Planets' Suite is one of the GREATEST pieces of music of the 20th century too!!!
Cheers - Mike
Thanks for the suggestions, Mike. Birtwistle's "Nomos" is also great.
Luiz Duczmal
I'll check that out now Luiz!!!
Cheers - Mike
Luiz Duczmal
I've just listened to 'Nomos', Luiz. A magnificent piece!!! Birtwistle's music has so much more depth to it than the pop stuff!!! Although I do like Duran Duran, particularly as they remind me of about 20 minutes one afternoon spent in the NEC in Birmingham, and the lovely dull, empty, cool, building!!! Particularly as they were soon to play there. A happy memory!!! I basically love orchestral music though!!!
Cheers - Mike
Daniel Hodge
Thanks Dan!!! Your a 'Gentleman'!!! I think perhaps 'The Planets' ( 1914 - 1916 ) although played a hell of a lot, is a stand out suite of GREAT music!!! Although Holst ( 1874 - 1934 ) wasn't all that thrilled with 'The Planets' ( 1914 - 1916 ), he rated 'Saturn ( The Bringer Of Old Age )' as by far the most original piece, which I agree with, although I like 'Venus ( The Bringer Of Peace )' best!!! On 'Classic FM', which I quickly got to hate, it's like, what's the ideal piece of music to play just under 8 minutes, oh yea' 'Jupiter ( The Bringer Of Jollity' )', needless to say, wonderful music as it is, they played it as much as possible, as it is so popular!!! I've never heard them play Birtwistle's ( b.1934 ) fantastic music all the time I listened to the show. Even very famous operas like Mozart's ( 1756 - 1791 ) 'Marriage Of Figaro' ( 1786 ), it tended to be the overture that they played!!! That programme has become me and my father's pet hate!!! I have entered some lesser regarded masterpieces for their 'Hall Of Fame' though. One was this, Ligeti's ( 1923 - 2006 ) 'Requiem' ( 1965 ). One was Auber's ( 1782 - 1871 ) 'Crown Diamonds Overture' ( 1841 ) and the other was Cesar Cui's ( 1835 - 1918 ) 'Kaleidoscope'.
My god... It's full of stars...
they are talking to us
I love this piece.
I am a buddhist and listening to this made me came
same
2001年宇宙の旅に寄せ過ぎな動画。
レクイエム全編通して聴くのは初めて。
CDが欲しいな。
That such cluster based verticality should be a platform for the human voice ! Brilliant unearthly relative resolutions. Inspired . Ligeti .
Indeed! And also another piece... Atmospheres, I think?
Did you know, Ligeti wasn't asked beforehand if they could use his music!
Beautiful choice of images, cuddles on the video.
6:17 Long for "The Space Odissey". Watching the DVD, right now!
This is amazing!
Listen to this with "Rothko Chapel" by Morton Feldman & "Kontakte" by Stockhausen playing at the same time :-)
That's a very good combination. Thanks man!
Sergio H. Mandujano U guys are sick xD
wow, that's awesome!
Stanley Kubrick ne pouvait pas faire un meilleur choix pour 2001 Une musique géniale pour un film génial
Ambientación idónea para leer un relato de Lovecraft.
Came here after Steven Wilson recommended it on Instagram. Not disappointed
The words Exaudi Deprecationem Meam in 3:15 is one of the best moments in the music I know.
Perfect haunted house background music, or for when its time to clear out house guests who have over stayed their welcome. Would not recommend to anyone on prescription medication for mental disorders
The soundtrack of millions of damned souls being driven into the icy depths of Hell at the crest of the coming Judgement Day. If there is a God, he is apathetic.
Or maybe it's just Godzilla.
Captain Quarters or maybe it's a giant black slab that screams at you if you try to take pictures next to it
DralionROBLOX Or maybe it's a... monolith.
Mmmh the universe has no place for hell. .|.
***** Perhaps this is meant to instill the confusion of a soul that knows not for whence it is bound. That's what I get from it, anyway.
Reminds me of a Spongebob episode. The one with squidward in the future.
They actually used this song in the Caveman episode when CaveBob was figuring out the benefits of fire. It's a reference 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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@@larrywprice2 hahaha I'm so done
A tue masterpiece !
Thanks
Creepiest music I've ever heard, and I listen to experimental black metal ...
cool dude!!!!!!!!
Me too!
Because black metal is anything other than corny noise. ;)
reminds me of Sun o)))
@@BromidicCompound this piece is anything other corny noise too
2001 Spaceodissey
This sends me to a beautiful place....a place more beautiful than any of my many victims have gone
I feel the same way about Darude's Sandstorm
Recent trip to California, hitting the 405 Northbound across Sepulveda Pass on the early side of rush hour. Me (California Native moved to Arizona some 20 years previous): "It's gotten a little crazier since the last time I was here"
My wife, Indiana native who grew up in Florida: Frozen in the passenger seat in abject terror, this music coursing through her consciousness.
Genius! and Kubrick also used it brilliantly. It really starts to take off at the 7 minute mark.
The music for "2001 - A Space Odyssey" when the astronauts went down into the pit on the Moon to investigate TMA-1." Starts at around 7:00 minutes.
Totally astonishing. Complete genius.
Was this the song in Halo 3? This reminds me of HR Giger too.