Ligeti, György (1923-2006)
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"The idea behind the work for orchestra 'Atmosphères' is as follows: a texture of sound is to be developed that will demonstrate the phenomenon of acoustically standing still. The old kind of thematically developing music as well as the structural music that everyone has been talking about since the 1950s are both defined by the interchange of acoustic events and pauses. In 'Atmosphères' this alternation is virtually cancelled. Event and pause occur conceptually at the dame time, while, as in the atmosphere, a constant, uninterrupted vibration occurs, but remains merely as background, in front of which nothing happens - as little, in fact, as in actual pauses. This idea is fixed acoustically right at the beginning of the work: with a blurred complex of sound, a cluster, that appears to be stationary. And yet within it there is movement, as of breathing; the volume diminishes like a breath streaming out and tending to die away. Moreover, it reveals a kind of web-pattern: in the middle it is fairly dense, while the intensity of sound tapers off in the low and high registers. The spatial concept of sound which at the beginning is rather vague is therefore specified with the greatest accuracy in a very detailed score and static sound is actually composed with great precision." — Harald Kaufmann
[info, ircam.fr] :: "PERHAPS no composer of the generation that came of age in the 1960's had a greater impact on the music of that unruly period than Gyorgy Ligeti. His ''Atmospheres,'' which appeared in 1961 at the avant-garde festival in Donaueschingen, was one of the first important works to break out of the straitjacket of rigid Serialism that constrained most of his European colleagues. Shortly thereafter came his ''Aventures'' and ''Nouvelle Aventures,'' a pair of phantasmagorical theater pieces that exploited the voice in arrestingly novel ways and which continue to hold fascination today, when most music of the period is as outdated as the Nehru jacket." — nytimes, MUSIC: 'LIGETI IN 'HORIZONS' OPENING. By DONAL HENAHAN
György Ligeti described the process of harmonic transformation in his orchestral work "Lontano" (1967) as a kind of polyphony of light. Paul Klee in his "polyphonic paintings", [Paul Klee, Spiel auf dem Wasser, 1935] translated elements of music into pictorial equivalents. Kandinsky tried to achieve an artistic synthesis by using methods from each art in his stage work "Der gelbe Klang" (1912). Writing in "Der blaue Reiter", he gave detailed instructions for the colors and some indications of the music.
Listen: Lontano.mp3
(1967) für grosses Orchester (Ernest Bour, Dirigent - SWF-Sinfonieorchester
Baden-Baden)
Listen: Désordre.mp3
(Études pour piano - Nr. 1, 1985)
Listen: bbc.co.uk : John Tusa Interview with Gyorgy Ligeti | Listen
to the interview with Gyorgy Ligeti (44:07)
The art of the repetition and the variation. Ligeti in light of Mondrian and Klee - Ligeti's works often demonstrate references to visual phenomena. This can be seen in several titles and also by the fact that they have often been inspired by pictures and even visions. This paper investigates these references. It examines, among other things, the similarities between the effect that the observation of rhythmical condensing in Piet Mondrian's work had on his work as well as the effect of the evolutionary repetitions and polyphonic mutations in Paul Klee's work, and of the effects that are aroused by such works of Ligeti's as Ramifications, Continuum or the Kammerkonzert. The correspondence betweeen the works that Ligeti example, is astonishing. The techniques of repetition, of polyphonic mutation and of slow, chromatic layering create a special effect in the eye or in the ear of the observer or listener: The beginning motion expands, brings to light a third dimension and finally creates a so-called »trompe-l'oeil«.
Listen/watch :: ubu.com :: Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes (Arrangement)
On Monday morning, the Austrian-Hungarian composer György Ligeti died in Vienna at the age of 83 after suffering from a serious illness. With him, we have lost one of the most effective and potent composers of the 20th century.
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Joseph Beuys
Pierre Boulez
Luc Ferrari
Egberto Gismonti
Charles Edward Ives: Central Park in the Dark
Gyorgy Ligeti
Olivier Messiaen
Steve Reich
Ad Reinhardt
Terry Riley
Jean-Claude Risset
David Tudor
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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[11] · Piano drone #1 [04:40]
[10] · Piano minimal #2 inspired by quaggy [13:06]
[09] · Piano minimal #1 [04:46]
[08] · Train Sonor: Piano NYC Subway #4 [10:17]
[07] · Cluster medicine [pianodrone #2] [18:54]
[06] · Flute stream [09:54]
[05] · Supernatural drone [guitardrone reverse] [17:02]
[04] · Piano minimal #3 [simultaneous] [08:50]
[03] · For Marjan K. [excerpt three] [05:44]
[02] · For Marjan K. [excerpt two] [05:40]
[01] · For Marjan K. [excerpt one] [06:21]
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