Arditti Quartet. Iannis Xenakis: Tetras 1/2

[muslit]

so glad modernism is over

[Megajosh2]

That does NOT look easy to play.

[kandinskaya]

Yesterday I saw Arditti Quartet performing live in Milan (Italy) musics by Lachenmann! (Sede 24 ORE)

Great performance! They are 4 but are also ONE !!

[shpoffo]

on of the most common things I notice about Xenakis' works: the human organism is not comfortable producing his compositions. I wonder about the long-term perceptual / cognitive effect of these ergonomics. Certainly - like all surreal, dada, and likewise - a heightened consciousness is produced of the arrhythmia. Until this is put in context, though, Xenakis work will remain one fiddle and an Orchestra Invisible.

[Kneam]

Xenakis is one of those composers who create artless noise through the process of mental masturbation and then dare to call it music.

[cephalopod]

@Kneam To call any work of art or music artless is just a tired, moot, inherently wrong statement these days, and this isn't even aleatory or dadaist, where incoherence and nonsense is a given. On the contrary, Xenakis had a very clear, well-represented and intelligent idea of what he was doing, and he expressed it, and it resulted in a music unlike any other. You simply don't like it. There's no need to harbor some futile, closed-minded animosity towards it.

[Kneam]

@cephalopod Xenakis was an intelligent man, but this, sadly, resulted in a lot of mental masturbation noise. My statement isn't wrong, you just don't like it. I have the right to reject and accept, and to express my views. I could just as well take a shit from the 2nd floor and call this art. It's this pseudo-open-mindedness that lead to tons of perversions, some of which ignoring the human perception. He has some good stuff, though. "Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny" - Zappa once said.

[Aempsz8]

Fantastic, Love it! and thank you Ashot for introducing me this music!

[ilmare2004]

好难听啊！受不了要写两句！

[NewMusicXX]

Very very nice! Thanks for the video!!

[Ylvaon]

Arditti - Masters of the Universe

[cephalopod]

oh yes

[johnteshreturns]

yes