Ligetti fue el primero en inventar este poema pero también será el ultimo. Los calculos que tomó para sincronizar todos estos metrónomos no han sido fáciles. Reparen que un metrónomo a cuerda puede durar funcionando continuamente mucho mas de 1 hora. Sin duda este poema tendrá sus misterios sin resolver y no es una perdida de tiempo el escucharlo varias veces con objeto de descubrir la profundidad analitica de esta composición.
While this piece is not my sort of thing, any listener would have to admit that it's a hell of a lot more creative and pleasant to listen to than hiphop.
@yenyenlim1 Eventually, it just runs out of force, it hasn't got any power to keep its motion going, as with all physics, when something starts eventually it stops.
As the metronomes wind down one after another and stop, periodicity becomes noticeable in the sound, and individual metronomes can be more clearly made out. The piece typically ends with just one metronome ticking alone for a few beats, followed by silence, and then the performers return to the stage
@ShiningDesertEagle Joy is not the matter, here. It is like saying you would only watch "joyful" movies. Other emotions, and displeasure included, ought to be represented to have a whole.
What do you mean, worst performance of this you've heard? The third metronome from the left in the fifth row from the top is a tick too slow....otherwise, it's perfect.
hahaha xD well, this is really funny^^ I think it's a kind of sarcasm and hate that leads to creations like that. and I hate timbre! timbre is voll der Fuck! I would kill timbre, right after eating timbres whole family in front of timbres eyes. I'd blitzkrieg timbre until timbres' species is exterminated.
It's interesting how many of them die out at around the same time.
I can't say I "like" it, but it does leave me with a couple of questions: were they all wound equally? Did he set out specific speeds for all of them?
As with most twentieth century classical experiments, I find the idea interesting but too boring and specific to listen to repeatedly (meaning, further listenings aren't going to reveal much more but that it might be used in an interesting way as part of another work, perhaps).
I found a similar experience once before with rain, combined with the dripping from my gutters and roof. After a while it became hypnotic with some rhythm patterns repeating. Thinking that it was an anomily, i taped it, but i was super high and forgot what i did with the tape.
This would work, I think. Except for if the metronomes were hypothetically perfect.
To the rest of you - No One Appreciates Timbre. Imagine a world without it? Everything would be icky. Someone was going to try to display it by itself eventually. With Ligeti there was more to music than just the sound.
I have a question - can just a regular speaking voice be called music if that voice were to be instructed in a composition similar to the one displayed here?
I think that the point of this is to show that nothing is really unorganized. Even if it seems totally chaotic, it is really still very organized, even simply so. And what's more simple and organized in music than a beat alone, such as one on a metronome? I also think this piece was meant with some amount of humor, even a lot of humor, but that doesn't make it totally meaningless or inartistic. For some reason it reminds me of looking at the stars and seeing them all twinkle at different times..
The actual paper on this piece says that the metronomes should be set off in groups of 10 by the different preformers, all at the same time. In this video, they were not set off at the same time, giving the viewers the wrong impression of the piece.
It's funny that people think Ligeti really thought this one out to the last degree, but in reality he just jotted this down as an idea in his notebook one day. He never saw it "performed" and most likely thought of it with a sense of humor rather than a stroke of genius, which many are taking him for or fighting against on these responses. Oh well
I'm pretty sure the idea was aimed to show that amidst the world of chaos that we live in, there are moments of synchronicity. @ caqtv: I believe when they actually did this the first time, something like that did happen. There was one sinuglar moment where all the metronomes lined up together for one beat, and then immediately returned to a cacophony...
This piece is a gimmick and it's way too long. After the initial 30 seconds of novelty, the rest is boredom. The metronomes eventually wind down at different times, big whoop. There's not much else they can do.
If he'd put them on a platform that could move, so that they synchronize (as you can view in other videos), THAT would be much more interesting.
If you like LIGETI, check his opera LE GRAND MACABRE + 50 other operas by 50 other composers in my play list 20th CENTURY OPERA ( including the world premiere of ARIA DEL CIRUJANO from Opera Opus Operatorum by Roberto Rius & Pedro Ipuche Riva )
20th CENTURY OPERA : the MOST VIEWED and MOST COMPLETE last century opera playlist in YOU TUBE !
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è evidente oramai come qualsiasi sorta di stronzata venga spacciata come creatività o peggio come arte. Al posto di questo buonismo dilagante io inviterei l'autore del progetto a ficcarsi tutti i metronomi su per il culo per ritrovare la sua naturale regolarità.
Non è escluso che l'abbia già fatto. Anche tu arrivi troppo tardi amico, ormai, il buco del culo è infinitamente anteriore alla tua miserrima esistenza di individuo con la moto nell'avatar. Brum brum.
Mi raccomando, ora rispondi usando tutti gli epiteti che indicano i genitali e gli orifizi che conosci.
Se ti piace la moto compratela. Io l'ho fatto. Sempre che tu abbia un cervello per fare quello che ti piace piuttosto che cagare il cazzo agli sconosciuti. La libertà di pensiero (anche volgare) fa parte del mio credo. Non insulto nessuno se non sento insultata la mia intelligenza. E non fare giochini psicologici infimi che non sei alla mia altezza lottedyscroto.
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what a waste of time. i can't believe anybody would find 'beauty' in a bunch of clicks from a hundred metronomes. that's like saying puke, if put on a picture frame, is art. give a hundred kids drumsticks and the same thing'll happen. hooray for modern art!!!
The point of this piece is not beauty. It is ingenuity.
Since you obviously don't know, I will tell you that there are four elements of music: melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. Melody, harmony, and rhythm can all stand on their own and be called music, so why can't the same be said for timbre? That is what Ligeti is doing here, he is creating musical equality by letting timbre stand alone, without melody, harmony, or rhythm.
@kablamxafi : Exactly !!! So , if music have 4 elements ( let´s say parameters ) , try to do music with just one of them sound´s to me a little ..... naive .
I remember when Mozart said : " Music , when is TRUE art , should NEVER offend the auditor "
@vailmsteen Naive? Knowing enough to separate a piece into only one of those fields is the exact opposite of naive. It takes a great deal of experience to know what you're doing in post-modern music.
And Mozart isn't the be-all end-all of composers. Besides, he offended his commissioners time after time again with his operas by choosing inappropriate topics. All new music offends the auditor, even his when it was first performed.
@WizMystery I guess this quote may be just part of the phenomenon of attributing a convenient - and in the case - stupid idea to a famous person with the purpose of making it more plausible.
"Gimme ur pussy, girl! Mozart said that pussy, when TRUE pussy, must be fucked by who wants it...."
If these went on forever, they would all tick at exactly the same time, just briefly, once within a cacophony of irregular noise, creating a moment of clarity surrounded by silence, before they lose sync again. What a beautiful moment that would be.
@caqtv if these were connected via a base that was not static but could also oscillate, then they would all tick at exactly the same time, repeating forever. Inanimate objects communicating, natural pendulums of different frequencies vibrating together in unison.
@caqtv not to be a philistine but i think your talking crap. The sound is similar to rain though aggressively human, i believe the 'moment of clarity' would only be beautiful in contrast to the irregularity we disassociate with a metronome and the chaos of this piece. this guy wanted to find rhythm in chaos, in an already utterly chaotic world. If you find beauty in clarity following choas look no further than your next rainfall followed by the silence of still air.
I find this kind of art particularly irritating as it is simply making something so common in the world apparent, that it must be aimed at idiots, or people that simply don't look or listen until they are told to... then again its also for the people who think liking obscure art will make them look cultured and intelligent (I call emperors new clothes syndrome). you can paint a canvas all blue.. but its not the first time I've observed the colour
@caqtv Unless you demand exact synchrony, it will do it within a finite time of about (1/w)^n where w =size of "window" the beats have to fit into and n= number of metronomes. So if all hitting a beat within 20 ms is ok, then the length of the piece to give an evens chance of it happening is (1/0.02)^100 = 50^100 =5 x 10^200 seconds. More than googol but a lot less than googolplex ! And of course that's just peanuts to eternity....
@caqtv This could happen if there are no two metronomes hitting at different times but running at the same tempo, or at any consistently synced multiple\fraction of that tempo. The tempos need to be different in order for the phase to change. Knowing the tempo and starting time of each metronome you could calculate whether or not they will eventually come into sync, though it'd be more fun to just create a hundred tracks of different tempo clicks in a piece of software and play with phasing. :)
@caqtv Not necessarily...it would probably have to be planned that way. All the (multiples of the) cross-rhythms would eventually have to coincide on the same hyper-downbeat, which is not likely at all to happen by chance.
i like the way the camera homes in on the last metronome and we watch till it stops..... for more experimental music please check out HEADHIT LIGHT WORKS
The rhythmic structure of the piece evolves and creates very interesting textures. I honestly find this far more interesting to listen to than most popular music. Also, just because something is hard to follow doesn't mean it isn't worth trying.
ya.......its just annoying and hard to follow. i appreciate random litttle sixth graders playing chords more than this. sorry....hard work tho i can tell
all you assholes saying this is chaos noise and not music are fucking stupid. none of you morons even listened to the whole damn thing did you fuckers? you would have heard the patterns and awesome rhythms if you did. morons. 5 stars bitches
You can hear a lot of different patterns if you listen closely, especially towards the end there's a lot of both triplet and duple syncopated patterns.
Wow, I was looking forward to something good but this was really just a waste of 8 minutes of my life. Don't waste yours as well. Sorry, you just can't hear anything that makes any sense.
the outraged audience of the debut of the rite of spring has been magically teleported to another space and time: this thread. it is 2008 guys. this is really not that far out there.
i should make a video of me pissing in the sun. id only show the drops... then id call it art and sell it to idiots. this may be art, but it is of the "wishing i could make good art" school of blah.
do i have to tell anyone i didnt sit here for 8 minutes? no.
I'd rate Ligeti higher than Strauss (assuming you mean Richard) based on his fantastic Requiem, String Quartets, Concertos & Études *alone* not to mention his opera "Le Grand Macabre", which is hilarious, and a pure delight to listen to. Stick to your childish dismissals and make sure you're never led into anything that may potentially get you somewhere interesting in your musical life.
Think of this as a practice in "Chance." Each person will begin to hear different rhythms inside of the cacophony of sound going on, something that no one can predict or recreate. Besides, what in life is ever really all that synchronized?
I had the honour of performing in Ligeti's 'Clocks and Clouds'. Ligeti creates new 'poly-harmonies' by making all performers sing and play in different rythmes and pitches at the same time. There is no coincidence. And the result is repeatable and spectecularly beautifull! All composers need to practise on something....I don't think the metronomes sound that bad, just people and instruments are more interesting, more colourfull!
laurion, how far down are you on your "list of modern composers who's Youtube videos I have to leave negative comments on"? You really seem to be intent on letting people know that you are right, and they are wrong.
One metronome had Duracell batteries in it.
tobleramone 1 week ago
4'48'' best part!!
jesuissurdecequejedi 2 weeks ago
must be amazing live! not quite doing it for me on my small crappy laptop speakers..
popovapop 2 weeks ago
What the fuck am I just watching?
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10 justin bieber and 10 stockhausen song at the same time
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andrewillis21 1 month ago
It's a pity, there isn't more compozitions for this ensemble!
LiSaiFun 1 month ago
I'm singing in the rain...
LeonaInnocentia 2 months ago 2
i think it's 4/4
jalfke 2 months ago 6
I can hear the rythm !
Camishhhful 3 months ago
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jihonation 3 months ago
Ligetti fue el primero en inventar este poema pero también será el ultimo. Los calculos que tomó para sincronizar todos estos metrónomos no han sido fáciles. Reparen que un metrónomo a cuerda puede durar funcionando continuamente mucho mas de 1 hora. Sin duda este poema tendrá sus misterios sin resolver y no es una perdida de tiempo el escucharlo varias veces con objeto de descubrir la profundidad analitica de esta composición.
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While this piece is not my sort of thing, any listener would have to admit that it's a hell of a lot more creative and pleasant to listen to than hiphop.
MrGutley 3 months ago 3
@MrGutley I wouldn't have to admit that. This piece is entirely my sort of thing, but I like hip hop too.
debrucey 3 months ago
how can the metronome stop by itself???? battery or something?? that's thing that I'm curious about..
yenyenlim1 3 months ago
@yenyenlim1 Eventually, it just runs out of force, it hasn't got any power to keep its motion going, as with all physics, when something starts eventually it stops.
Zimplony 3 months ago
@yenyenlim1 the friction of air.
TALLL85 1 month ago
Bof. Autant écouter la pluie qui tombe...
tricello69 3 months ago
encore! this time, with ONE.... MILLION??? METRONOMES?????
octopuscollective 4 months ago
As the metronomes wind down one after another and stop, periodicity becomes noticeable in the sound, and individual metronomes can be more clearly made out. The piece typically ends with just one metronome ticking alone for a few beats, followed by silence, and then the performers return to the stage
Vesivian 4 months ago
@ShiningDesertEagle Joy is not the matter, here. It is like saying you would only watch "joyful" movies. Other emotions, and displeasure included, ought to be represented to have a whole.
Beaudereck 4 months ago
I am really digging the turnaround on the 4th bar of the bridge. Wild stuff.
scopaz 5 months ago
It's raining.
scopaz 5 months ago 9
Starting from time 1:56 a metronome in the centre of the image and another one in the bottom seem to be still ! ;))
Maybe an effect of the quality of the video compression?!
andreapireddu73 5 months ago
Seems like popcorn...
matematicaufes 5 months ago
Polyrhythms anyone?
ruiolas 6 months ago
Aren't they supposed to start at the same time? There's a definite delay using their method. Ruined the whole piece.
kerumble 6 months ago
Lovely noise.
SxSDeath 6 months ago
like raindrops
frankbraker 6 months ago
lol i love how people are gettin all in to their comments and shit.
cosmoman360 6 months ago
worst performance of this i've heard :P
slaytesics 6 months ago
@slaytesics
What do you mean, worst performance of this you've heard? The third metronome from the left in the fifth row from the top is a tick too slow....otherwise, it's perfect.
PaterTenebrarum1 5 months ago
this is one screwed up performance
HenkBroekstee 7 months ago
me podrian explicar como apreciar esta obra?por favor!
allegrettoful 7 months ago
my only complaint, too much talking from the woman
forcystus4 7 months ago 2
hahaha xD well, this is really funny^^ I think it's a kind of sarcasm and hate that leads to creations like that. and I hate timbre! timbre is voll der Fuck! I would kill timbre, right after eating timbres whole family in front of timbres eyes. I'd blitzkrieg timbre until timbres' species is exterminated.
IIIIIawesIIIII 7 months ago
This would go well with a raging migraine.
smjenkin 7 months ago
Why are there so many dislikes on this video??
This is absolutely awesome.
nonners21 7 months ago
Ι think this is a ...joke piece ! Ligeti was not only an innovative composer but also a ...teaser... a bit of ...Frank Zappa, before ...Frank Zappa !
theo9952 7 months ago
The point of this piece is that all people are different, that's why the metronomes are in different speed . I like it :)
nanaflute4ever 8 months ago
I wake up with it.
v4liumfrance 8 months ago
It's interesting how many of them die out at around the same time.
I can't say I "like" it, but it does leave me with a couple of questions: were they all wound equally? Did he set out specific speeds for all of them?
As with most twentieth century classical experiments, I find the idea interesting but too boring and specific to listen to repeatedly (meaning, further listenings aren't going to reveal much more but that it might be used in an interesting way as part of another work, perhaps).
MaestroTJS 8 months ago
Sounds like a rain.
zhmenia 8 months ago
Could you send me the sheet music, please?
PuresMusic 9 months ago 15
@PuresMusic haha nice one
deadlysaxmachine 8 months ago
?????????????????????????????
JamesraynorII 9 months ago
Einfach nur GENIAL !!!
beethovensgeist 9 months ago
I found a similar experience once before with rain, combined with the dripping from my gutters and roof. After a while it became hypnotic with some rhythm patterns repeating. Thinking that it was an anomily, i taped it, but i was super high and forgot what i did with the tape.
gotohell714 9 months ago
i don't get it.
stehedman 9 months ago
@caqtv
This would work, I think. Except for if the metronomes were hypothetically perfect.
To the rest of you - No One Appreciates Timbre. Imagine a world without it? Everything would be icky. Someone was going to try to display it by itself eventually. With Ligeti there was more to music than just the sound.
I have a question - can just a regular speaking voice be called music if that voice were to be instructed in a composition similar to the one displayed here?
searchfgold6789 9 months ago
puajj
AnaVeronica86 11 months ago
My food processor sounds like that. Nice job. Now make it sound as a car.
Laudan08 11 months ago
I think that the point of this is to show that nothing is really unorganized. Even if it seems totally chaotic, it is really still very organized, even simply so. And what's more simple and organized in music than a beat alone, such as one on a metronome? I also think this piece was meant with some amount of humor, even a lot of humor, but that doesn't make it totally meaningless or inartistic. For some reason it reminds me of looking at the stars and seeing them all twinkle at different times..
AyumuVanguard 11 months ago
@ShiningDesertEagle Are you claiming that music's only purpose is joy?
Breadallelogram 11 months ago
False note at the 57th measure :-)
kima57 11 months ago
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kima57 11 months ago
@unclegusyo LMFAO Right on.
wardupyo 1 year ago
The actual paper on this piece says that the metronomes should be set off in groups of 10 by the different preformers, all at the same time. In this video, they were not set off at the same time, giving the viewers the wrong impression of the piece.
TheCrackergirl 1 year ago 2
Nice!!! just to much talking from the lady!!! Would be nicer to only hear the piece!!!
Thanks anyway for uploading it!!!
papanoche 1 year ago
It's funny that people think Ligeti really thought this one out to the last degree, but in reality he just jotted this down as an idea in his notebook one day. He never saw it "performed" and most likely thought of it with a sense of humor rather than a stroke of genius, which many are taking him for or fighting against on these responses. Oh well
humpster89 1 year ago 2
Superb film, amazing music.
markzemusic 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure the idea was aimed to show that amidst the world of chaos that we live in, there are moments of synchronicity. @ caqtv: I believe when they actually did this the first time, something like that did happen. There was one sinuglar moment where all the metronomes lined up together for one beat, and then immediately returned to a cacophony...
McQuads87 1 year ago
I like it a lot when it dies away.
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GOOD ISH U SHOULD CHECK ------physocological word play with no metronome"""
rico010589 1 year ago
Well, you win some, you lose some. Sorry Ligeti, but this sucks.
mrpankau 1 year ago
It's like a stadium of nuns waving at Jesus.
catchersmitt0 1 year ago 16
@catchersmitt0 or jihadists in Mecca waving bayonets.
marcoamedrano 1 year ago
@catchersmitt0 Lol :D
gonrolgonrol 1 year ago
This is clapping.
imover18gotityube 1 year ago
I think onlyonedogcando makes a valid point. He is experimenting with stereophony and he's thinking like an artist. Usermaatrey's mind can't get it.
MrAkihiros 1 year ago
awesome
jmk170393 2 years ago 3
This piece is a gimmick and it's way too long. After the initial 30 seconds of novelty, the rest is boredom. The metronomes eventually wind down at different times, big whoop. There's not much else they can do.
If he'd put them on a platform that could move, so that they synchronize (as you can view in other videos), THAT would be much more interesting.
onlyonedogcando 2 years ago
Shut the fuck up.
UserMaatRey 2 years ago
I don't take orders from monkeys
onlyonedogcando 2 years ago
If you like LIGETI, check his opera LE GRAND MACABRE + 50 other operas by 50 other composers in my play list 20th CENTURY OPERA ( including the world premiere of ARIA DEL CIRUJANO from Opera Opus Operatorum by Roberto Rius & Pedro Ipuche Riva )
20th CENTURY OPERA : the MOST VIEWED and MOST COMPLETE last century opera playlist in YOU TUBE !
upatoia 2 years ago
Buy a sheet of plastic and stand in the rain with it over your head... same sound, same result. Well, OK so you get a bit wet too... bonus! ;O)
coldstorageman123 2 years ago
Or sit in a car and enjoy the sound of the drops.
PjodII 2 years ago
haha funny
jmk170393 2 years ago
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è evidente oramai come qualsiasi sorta di stronzata venga spacciata come creatività o peggio come arte. Al posto di questo buonismo dilagante io inviterei l'autore del progetto a ficcarsi tutti i metronomi su per il culo per ritrovare la sua naturale regolarità.
acselros 2 years ago
Non è escluso che l'abbia già fatto. Anche tu arrivi troppo tardi amico, ormai, il buco del culo è infinitamente anteriore alla tua miserrima esistenza di individuo con la moto nell'avatar. Brum brum.
Mi raccomando, ora rispondi usando tutti gli epiteti che indicano i genitali e gli orifizi che conosci.
Lottedyskolia 2 years ago
Se ti piace la moto compratela. Io l'ho fatto. Sempre che tu abbia un cervello per fare quello che ti piace piuttosto che cagare il cazzo agli sconosciuti. La libertà di pensiero (anche volgare) fa parte del mio credo. Non insulto nessuno se non sento insultata la mia intelligenza. E non fare giochini psicologici infimi che non sei alla mia altezza lottedyscroto.
acselros 2 years ago
Ligeti, ma gli devi dei soldi a sto poveretto?
Lottedyskolia 2 years ago
Sto poveretto è AxelRose, che in realtà si scrive acselros.
Lottedyskolia 2 years ago
Questa è arte ragazzi... quasi come le mie scorregge quando stringo il buco del culo e faccio il verso del tubo dell'acqua. MA fottetevi dio crucco!
acselros 2 years ago
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what a waste of time. i can't believe anybody would find 'beauty' in a bunch of clicks from a hundred metronomes. that's like saying puke, if put on a picture frame, is art. give a hundred kids drumsticks and the same thing'll happen. hooray for modern art!!!
mindlesswaffle 2 years ago
Dearest mindlesswaffle:
The point of this piece is not beauty. It is ingenuity.
Since you obviously don't know, I will tell you that there are four elements of music: melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. Melody, harmony, and rhythm can all stand on their own and be called music, so why can't the same be said for timbre? That is what Ligeti is doing here, he is creating musical equality by letting timbre stand alone, without melody, harmony, or rhythm.
kablamxafi 2 years ago 58
There's definitely a rhythm here, in fact i think this piece might even make use of polyrhythms at some point.
moses2792796 2 years ago 5
@kablamxafi I begg to differ. There's a whole lot of rhythm in here
Demoliti0nLover 1 year ago 2
@kablamxafi Mais c'est super ! sauf que c'est inécoutable !
Nazgulinet021 7 months ago
@kablamxafi ok then 100 metronome making a cacophony means timbre ?
Nazgulinet021 7 months ago
@kablamxafi : Exactly !!! So , if music have 4 elements ( let´s say parameters ) , try to do music with just one of them sound´s to me a little ..... naive .
I remember when Mozart said : " Music , when is TRUE art , should NEVER offend the auditor "
vailmsteen 6 months ago in playlist György Ligeti
@vailmsteen Naive? Knowing enough to separate a piece into only one of those fields is the exact opposite of naive. It takes a great deal of experience to know what you're doing in post-modern music.
And Mozart isn't the be-all end-all of composers. Besides, he offended his commissioners time after time again with his operas by choosing inappropriate topics. All new music offends the auditor, even his when it was first performed.
I also just searched that quote and got nothing.
WizMystery 6 months ago
@WizMystery I guess this quote may be just part of the phenomenon of attributing a convenient - and in the case - stupid idea to a famous person with the purpose of making it more plausible.
"Gimme ur pussy, girl! Mozart said that pussy, when TRUE pussy, must be fucked by who wants it...."
Great idea! Gonna try it at da streets.
gustavoturm 5 months ago
@WizMystery I also read on Musimathics that some mozart's song were a little dissonant to his time.
gustavoturm 5 months ago
@WizMystery It's fun because he remember when mozart said that. He was there!
gustavoturm 5 months ago
@vailmsteen Music has only one element: sound.
FernieCanto 2 months ago
@kablamxafi But that is not ingenuity^^ Every music student can you tell that before he is start to study...
hpudgp 4 months ago
he wasn't AUSTRIAN - NOR was he WEGIAN..! He was a Hungarian - he did live in austria for a time however.
C4ContemporaryArt 2 years ago
Really interesting, but I dislike the reverberation of the hall.
Thanks for this amazing video :-)
lhiasczkter 2 years ago
Amen.
PetrushkaDead 2 years ago
If these went on forever, they would all tick at exactly the same time, just briefly, once within a cacophony of irregular noise, creating a moment of clarity surrounded by silence, before they lose sync again. What a beautiful moment that would be.
caqtv 2 years ago 105
I believe that's the point of the work... I've seen it live twice, and that happened both times...
eoghdes18 2 years ago
@caqtv if these were connected via a base that was not static but could also oscillate, then they would all tick at exactly the same time, repeating forever. Inanimate objects communicating, natural pendulums of different frequencies vibrating together in unison.
qarave 1 year ago
@caqtv not to be a philistine but i think your talking crap. The sound is similar to rain though aggressively human, i believe the 'moment of clarity' would only be beautiful in contrast to the irregularity we disassociate with a metronome and the chaos of this piece. this guy wanted to find rhythm in chaos, in an already utterly chaotic world. If you find beauty in clarity following choas look no further than your next rainfall followed by the silence of still air.
gobacktorussia 1 year ago
I find this kind of art particularly irritating as it is simply making something so common in the world apparent, that it must be aimed at idiots, or people that simply don't look or listen until they are told to... then again its also for the people who think liking obscure art will make them look cultured and intelligent (I call emperors new clothes syndrome). you can paint a canvas all blue.. but its not the first time I've observed the colour
gobacktorussia 1 year ago
@caqtv and if an infinite number of monkeys were to hit random letters on typewriters forever, they'd produce the complete works of Shakespeare...
unclegusyo 1 year ago 3
@caqtv Unless you demand exact synchrony, it will do it within a finite time of about (1/w)^n where w =size of "window" the beats have to fit into and n= number of metronomes. So if all hitting a beat within 20 ms is ok, then the length of the piece to give an evens chance of it happening is (1/0.02)^100 = 50^100 =5 x 10^200 seconds. More than googol but a lot less than googolplex ! And of course that's just peanuts to eternity....
GodOverDemon 1 year ago
@caqtv I'm pretty sure they wouldn't... but the thought is poetic :)
flumpyo 11 months ago
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thetwentyfourth 11 months ago
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thetwentyfourth 11 months ago
@caqtv This could happen if there are no two metronomes hitting at different times but running at the same tempo, or at any consistently synced multiple\fraction of that tempo. The tempos need to be different in order for the phase to change. Knowing the tempo and starting time of each metronome you could calculate whether or not they will eventually come into sync, though it'd be more fun to just create a hundred tracks of different tempo clicks in a piece of software and play with phasing. :)
thetwentyfourth 11 months ago
@caqtv Not necessarily...it would probably have to be planned that way. All the (multiples of the) cross-rhythms would eventually have to coincide on the same hyper-downbeat, which is not likely at all to happen by chance.
ChicagoTheory 8 months ago
@caqtv Yeah but before that moment comes i will have already turned the computer off
ContraereaSerba 6 months ago
che minchiata
ilgrandemazzinga 2 years ago
That is simply being clever for cleverness' sake, a terrible idea, sounds dreadful, don't tell me this is art!
Maddy4Me 2 years ago
This is art.
pelodelperro 2 years ago 6
i like the way the camera homes in on the last metronome and we watch till it stops..... for more experimental music please check out HEADHIT LIGHT WORKS
stanmoonetc 2 years ago
The rhythmic structure of the piece evolves and creates very interesting textures. I honestly find this far more interesting to listen to than most popular music. Also, just because something is hard to follow doesn't mean it isn't worth trying.
SamnJohnson 2 years ago 2
HOLY FUCK. THAT GUY IS A FUCKING GENIUS. What other pieces has he done?
IIThesaviour 2 years ago
I'm sure Ligeti cringed at this "piece" years later.
distortingjack 2 years ago
sounds better with 3
pbforandrew 2 years ago
Only the french....
10oooo01 3 years ago
Ligeti was Austrian.
GraigRussell 2 years ago
My mistake! Only the Austrians ;-)
10oooo01 2 years ago
amen, brother
urikon 2 years ago
@10oooo01 hehe
JamesraynorII 9 months ago
I enjoy avant garde music, including Ligeti, but, I could never stand this.
michael918273645 3 years ago
thats because you're a fake. i only enjoy true norwegian avantgarde music and i love this one
crackyoup 2 years ago
No that's because art is subjective.
michael918273645 2 years ago
appreciate the idea..but get bored after a while sorry
mltg32 3 years ago
rain on a tin roof
gspaulsson 3 years ago 7
ya.......its just annoying and hard to follow. i appreciate random litttle sixth graders playing chords more than this. sorry....hard work tho i can tell
geekbeeterupper 3 years ago
my, i just love that noise..
apollomwj 3 years ago
I'm surprised this has more views than the genius requiem
09090707 3 years ago
Whole noise, no music ever, sorry.
LatheanLamerushaLat 3 years ago
ну послушал я эти 100метрономов и что7
ilya632 3 years ago
ok, he got his money and fame, he is in the history. but nobody123r is so damn right!
Lis2388 3 years ago
dumb ass !!
jhstha 3 years ago
this is shit.
nobody123r 3 years ago
It's strange how every foolish nonsense can always have a large following among idiots.
laurion69 3 years ago
You're an idiot! ;p
eth3rn4l 3 years ago
Oh no...
It's you having a brain just to share your ears!
laurion69 3 years ago
I didn't say anything zbout the music ;þ
eth3rn4l 3 years ago
Nor I did.
I said just you use your brain just to separate your ears each other.
laurion69 3 years ago
oh oh !!! one of the metronomes was out of tune !!!
riffraff6259 3 years ago 4
this is no music.
XLuckieX 3 years ago
all you assholes saying this is chaos noise and not music are fucking stupid. none of you morons even listened to the whole damn thing did you fuckers? you would have heard the patterns and awesome rhythms if you did. morons. 5 stars bitches
LackingLack0 3 years ago
just great!
Gast1234567890 3 years ago
why??
lilmoose17 3 years ago
1:30 lead in wtf? rain on a tin roof sounds better...
teddirez 3 years ago 2
Very nice Tick-tack!
As hundred of the nun, is not it?
article9jp 3 years ago
You can hear a lot of different patterns if you listen closely, especially towards the end there's a lot of both triplet and duple syncopated patterns.
progvortex 3 years ago
Well if I could choose, I'd rather listen to John Cage's 4'33''.
110011010100 3 years ago
hahaha, finally a smart comment!
victoryradio 3 years ago
seem chaotic
Pentatleta 3 years ago
Very weird! Not particularly beautiful to listen to, but interesting! Probably sounded better in person.
meerlyb 3 years ago 2
Wow, I was looking forward to something good but this was really just a waste of 8 minutes of my life. Don't waste yours as well. Sorry, you just can't hear anything that makes any sense.
yourmotherhome 3 years ago
music it's the art of COMBINE THE SOUNDS it's not a combination and it's not sound (it's noise), so we are right
gabrielfernandez92 3 years ago
the outraged audience of the debut of the rite of spring has been magically teleported to another space and time: this thread. it is 2008 guys. this is really not that far out there.
pezmanpockyfan 3 years ago 4
sounds like popping popcorn
file0save0studios 3 years ago
for me is like a sond of water drops from rain on the car window, when you going fast in freeway. lol
zerodoze 3 years ago 3
Fantastique!
kvmusic 3 years ago
utterly pointless
Killian1234567890 3 years ago
i should make a video of me pissing in the sun. id only show the drops... then id call it art and sell it to idiots. this may be art, but it is of the "wishing i could make good art" school of blah.
do i have to tell anyone i didnt sit here for 8 minutes? no.
nazaxprime 3 years ago
This is a Symphonic poem!? Strauss would have killed Ligeti. One star.
SamueleVV 3 years ago
I'd rate Ligeti higher than Strauss (assuming you mean Richard) based on his fantastic Requiem, String Quartets, Concertos & Études *alone* not to mention his opera "Le Grand Macabre", which is hilarious, and a pure delight to listen to. Stick to your childish dismissals and make sure you're never led into anything that may potentially get you somewhere interesting in your musical life.
TheBlackPage1 3 years ago
I like it, it`s interesting to listen to the random rhythm. Indeed, like rain, or clapping, especially in the second part.
ruszi2 3 years ago 2
whatever you say
DUNYAYIKURTARIN 3 years ago
Yea, thats music
Jimmytom83 3 years ago 2
awesome, i wouldn`t think about to do this!!
thx loox and sounds nice-very different rythms for everybody XD
polyhexamethyl 3 years ago
Think of this as a practice in "Chance." Each person will begin to hear different rhythms inside of the cacophony of sound going on, something that no one can predict or recreate. Besides, what in life is ever really all that synchronized?
sklrjkt 3 years ago
Good... Good? Awesome! The fact is not only to do this, is to think: "Let's do this".
unholy1988 3 years ago 5
???:D
dubaikok 3 years ago
sounds like rain
w0xy 3 years ago 3
You got it... Rain... Rain is not a logical secuence... Random envolves our lives.
unholy1988 3 years ago 2
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What the FUCK is this crap? I hate this kind of esoteric "artistic" bullshit. There's no talent here.. 0 Stars if I could.
DrBjamin 3 years ago
it has nothing to do with esotericism! it should rather be an experiment with the uncontrollable of the music.
one thing: only judge about an piece of art after you really have examined the artist's intention.
buxheimerorgelbuch 3 years ago 3
I had the honour of performing in Ligeti's 'Clocks and Clouds'. Ligeti creates new 'poly-harmonies' by making all performers sing and play in different rythmes and pitches at the same time. There is no coincidence. And the result is repeatable and spectecularly beautifull! All composers need to practise on something....I don't think the metronomes sound that bad, just people and instruments are more interesting, more colourfull!
MartinaVonTrapp 3 years ago
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How smuggle to the fools a crap for a work of art.
laurion69 3 years ago
laurion, how far down are you on your "list of modern composers who's Youtube videos I have to leave negative comments on"? You really seem to be intent on letting people know that you are right, and they are wrong.
tubafatness 3 years ago 2