WOW! As exciting and brutal as Threnody. Look at the date .Would love to have been an aware present adult when this was first heard . Again Penderecki helps us go where war and brutality and madness and originality may if we dare.Extreme states but how do you notate these amazing things?
I know Pendercki, like any composer is serious about his music, and it's mind blowing, but I have to wonder if the ending note C in unison was meant as a "Ta da!" A sort of tongue-and-cheek ending that creates this safety boundary from the previous 10-minute sonic assault. Either way, it's great! Thanks for posting this.
One of the most impressive apsects of this piece is the massive earth rumbling ground swell achieved by the low strings alone; no brass or percussion needed. Amazing!
Love the last note, to bring you back from the edge to a common reality. Really worried that i 'get this'. A whole new world of sound to discover and understand.
This is art. Art can be expressed in different kinds of forms, as it also can express different types of emotions. As you noticed, by listening to this "garbage" this terrifies you, messes with you head and absolutely creeps the fucking shit out of you (atleast for me) BUT STILL THIS IS ART. It is beautiful in it's own way. I personally find this amazing, but it also gets me a little insane and delirious. And no we can't be happy all the time it's boring.
@intervalkid If that was the case, then all kids' fingerpaintings could be called art too. Kids express themselves that way. Defining art in this way is possible too, no objections from me. If, however, we're talking about Art with a capital A, as it is often understood, then the concept of beauty must come into play too. A work of art might be called a study of the concept of beauty;by discovering new angles to the concept, the artist shapes and creates new reality, new beauty, ART
I don't know where you get the idea that Art must be beautiful. If that is the case then this is not Art then. You will end up calling ugly and scarey things beautiful so as not to discredit their Artistic merit, which is detrimental. The Art is not detrimental, yet calling all Art beautiful and therefore lowering standards of beauty to include whatever atrocious form certain Artworks take into that definition is most certainly detrimental.
@AnnoNihilus You are erring in several ways. Me saying that "art doesn't have to be beautiful it just has to express", certainly does not include unskilled dabblings such as finger painting, the definition doesn't exclude skill of expression. Making finger paintings would be about like someone making vocal utterances without words going "uh uh uh" that certainly doesn't express much of anything effectively. Art is built from skill in expression.
@intervalkid I agree,whereas there is to say,there can be an aesthetic harmony of the beautiful as well as of the disturbing.It is like comparing a brilliant chord played by a string quartet with a highly overdriven guitar chord.there is ugliness in the distorted, in the disfigured shape.but on a higher level,looked upon in a wider frame,there is a consonance and structure even in seemingly denaturalized,dehumanized forms of expression which can be called aesthetic pleasure.
I think that polymorphy is very cool sounding. Cool is a positive aesthetic but it is certainly not the same as beautiful. Fire and explosions look cool. They do not look beautiful however. Overdriven guitar chords aren't necessarily ugly nor beautiful but they can sound cool. Cool is a different aspect entirely not a degree in a gradient between ugly and beautiful.
@ARobinsonization, there's nothing good about expressing terror and insanity. We need to create new, life-supporting classical music instead of nightmare after nightmare. Nightmares are like violent movies; they lose their shock value after awhile, and thus lose their attractiveness.
@KhagarBalugrak Seems to me that you're too closed-minded to appreciate music, especially if you write something off based on it being scary. Depression and fear are the strongest human emotions from an artistic standpoint.
@gustavoturm, well, I'm making a declaration that applies to all musicians. I'm not saying everyone reading this comment wants to avoid creating nightmarish music, much less that all people reading this agree with me. I'm saying all musicians SHOULD avoid making nightmarish music, because it disturbs and harms the body and mind and lowers consciousness.
@masterofpaint, nice bit of sarcasm there. What if music harms the listener? Because atonal music absolutely does harm living things. People have done experiments that prove it. Just because something isn't ugly and horrifying doesn't mean it's superficial. Actually, negativity is limited in its depth because of its tension and inability to expand or transcend.
Something is very wrong when writing life-supporting music is indefensible in the eyes of most classical musicians.
@KhagarBalugrak I would like to see some of these experiments. And without a drip of sarcasm, I'm very sure atonal music does cause stress in some people. But so does opera, at least for me. And what about all the other cultures with less-tonal traditions? Don't you think it would, in some occasions at least, be appropriate to cause less pleasant sonority as a mean of artistic expression? I personally find chaotic music very useful in processing the unexplainable madness of WW2 for example.
@MrBoiseau, except, of course, that I'm not arguing against tritones. I'm arguing against ugly, nightmarish music like this. I can see that you think of all musical limits as evil; but there must be some limitations if music is to remain life-supporting. The same is true of every area of life. There must be limits in our behavior, or else we'll become murderers, rapists, etc. There must be a limit to how many people we have on this planet, or we'll kill the ecosystem. And so on.
This entire process is like descending into madness while your brain feels like it's about to explode and horrifying and maddening hallucinations dance around in front of you.
I imagine this is the kind of music you hear during a REALLY bad trip.
Some people I'd imagine, would be actually scared by this music in a dark room at night.. Forget your happy, uplifting stuff. Music is at its most powerful when it's at its darkest..
@logybear86 There is room for all different emotions and ideas to be expressed through any medium of art. Within music however: tonality inhibits the expression of fear and depression. Listen to any Goth rock or Emo band you care to; they can't hold a candle to the modern avant-garde. At the same time, atonality gets in the way of positive emotions. Any "uplifting" piece of atonal music pales in comparison to any GOOD tonal music. There is room and need for both.
This is so weird, its all ouf of tune from the begging till near end, and then in fishishes with a perfect candeza! I don´t get it!! 20th century music is aberrant!!
What do you guys think of this? The piece is about the world being created, and all of the noise we hear before the triad is all of the work that's going on when our world is being created. Then when it is done, the major chord is the feeling of satisfaction.
I am not going to lie, contrary to most people that commented on this, the ending felt totally fitting to me. I loved it. The entire piece put me on edge, and that last chord was EXACTLY what I wanted to hear after the suspense. Amazing.
I have a couple of Penderecki's cd's........."Matrix 5" and "St Luke Passion". I play the Matrix 5 cd every year at Halloween time for the kids, at the front door as they're trick-or-treating !!
I think I understand the major triad at the end. Usually, people hear atonal music and it is unsettling and strange. But Penderecki understands the musicality of it.
And when we listen to his entire piece, by the time we hear the ending chord, we are so used to hearing the atonal sounds that the Major Triad itself, the sound that music was based on for so many years, sounds strange and alien. Maybe it's a sort of irony.
@AnAmericanComposer, I have only marginal knowledge of music theory, but I'm willing to guess some of the sounds were made by literally striking or slapping the instrument. In other cases they simply mute the strings.
@AnAmericanComposer - string instruments can make some strange sounds...there's the "col legno" technique, which is where you hit the strings with the bow like a percussion instrument - it makes a hollow sound, very creepy. there's another variant where one uses the back of the bow which makes a screechy sound. wikipedia has an entire article on it, pretty comprehensive actually - "Bowed string instrument extended technique", check it out (:
@AnAmericanComposer Studying his score will help you understand all those techniques. There are usually a few pages dedicated to deciphering his notation. It's a bit of a task at first, but you get used to it. It is FASCINATING to say the least.
A lot of the effects are done by playing the notes between the bridge and the tailpiece, playing four-stringed arpeggio, using rapid tremolo, playing glissandos on quarter tones, playing on 'dead' or low pitches, thumping/tapping the wood of the violin, aand playing vibrato at different lengthwaves at once. There are others - but those are the basic ones that Penderecki put to good use.
wow- kinda makes you wonder what penderecki had going on in that brilliant mind of his, huh?
I mean this is not sad, or happy, or anything else but BIZARRE, DISTURBING,
TERRIFYING, UNSETTLING- I've-just-been-stabbed-and-I'm-being-chased-through-a-very-old-large-spooky-as-fuck-house-with-very-little-lighting-and-hallways-and-stairs-like-mazes-with-only-a-lightning-storm(along with the clapping of ever more frequent thunder)-and-sporadic-candles-along-the-castle-like-walls-to-guide-the-way-SCARY
An avalanche, "the Birds", a plague from the sky, a stampede - the power of mother nature . . . and . . . something else? Sooooo evocative, and powerful. Amazing. Enlightening. This is Music! Not a criticism, but (and it's probably just me) is the final resolve slightly incongruous? Or is it meant to be, and I just didn't quite "get it"? I Love this - have to give another listen. Thanks for the upload.
I have to agree. It's a quizzical ending...I've tried listening to the ending a couple of times but I still find it puzzling. Unless it's supposed to be sarcastic --which I assume it isn't due to the serious nature of the work -- I can't for the life of me understand why he'd use a major triad in the end...
Messiaen's music ends abruptly too-Chronocromia,oiseaux works-not all-The two composers use slightly different instruments to announce ,this is the end'.
WOW! As exciting and brutal as Threnody. Look at the date .Would love to have been an aware present adult when this was first heard . Again Penderecki helps us go where war and brutality and madness and originality may if we dare.Extreme states but how do you notate these amazing things?
MrInterestingthings 2 weeks ago
No. He did not just write a piece like that, and then end on a normal chord like none of that madness just happened. xD
RulesofPotterdom 2 weeks ago
Q: What key signature is this in?
A: ALL OF THEM!
DJTurkeyneck 3 weeks ago 3
Hello teenagers, wanna scare your parents shitless? learn to play classical music not heavy metal or goth or industrial!
jukeboxbaby1 1 month ago 7
fix the audio, is wrong, it's one pitch higher than normal.
mauryelhombremono 1 month ago
@mauryelhombremono thats i think due to 240p :(
SOEINEGAUDI 3 weeks ago
@SOEINEGAUDI no he is cheating th e wmg
racistman3D 2 weeks ago
Spiders....Spiders everywhere.
Apollomasque 1 month ago 3
this makes death metal sound like richard clayderman
Hexachloraphine 1 month ago 3
The music made me do it.
musich10 1 month ago 2
I love this so much. It's dissonant, chaotic and beautiful. It doesn't sound even remotely dated.
CodyRicheson 2 months ago in playlist penderecki
Primera vez que escucho esto, la primera de muchas que lo haré. Es perfectamente impresionante
Palazueloss 2 months ago
every time i listen, i crack an evil little smile.
Poisonbl4dder 2 months ago
my teeth hurt
Mondayislame 2 months ago 2
I know Pendercki, like any composer is serious about his music, and it's mind blowing, but I have to wonder if the ending note C in unison was meant as a "Ta da!" A sort of tongue-and-cheek ending that creates this safety boundary from the previous 10-minute sonic assault. Either way, it's great! Thanks for posting this.
bennoach 3 months ago
One of the most impressive apsects of this piece is the massive earth rumbling ground swell achieved by the low strings alone; no brass or percussion needed. Amazing!
bennoach 3 months ago
Love the last note, to bring you back from the edge to a common reality. Really worried that i 'get this'. A whole new world of sound to discover and understand.
felixfatfunk 3 months ago
I LOVE THAT SHIT !!!
sENoZ93 3 months ago
i find this easy to masturbate to
schwarzlose 3 months ago
@schwarzlose Fuck this even being a thing; every youtube video has this same comment
mukashakapaka1 3 months ago
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@schwarzlose i bet you do
pillowsinmypants 2 months ago
OMG THIS MUSIc so DEPRES I CNAT LISETN TO THS GARBAGE SAD IS STUPID Y WE CANT JUST BE HAPPY ALL THE TIM
kamilww92 3 months ago
@kamilww92 If we were happy all the time, life would be so boring. Especially art.
frankentomato 3 months ago
@kamilww92 Dear, what-ever-your-name-is,
This is art. Art can be expressed in different kinds of forms, as it also can express different types of emotions. As you noticed, by listening to this "garbage" this terrifies you, messes with you head and absolutely creeps the fucking shit out of you (atleast for me) BUT STILL THIS IS ART. It is beautiful in it's own way. I personally find this amazing, but it also gets me a little insane and delirious. And no we can't be happy all the time it's boring.
MyLoveForTheStreets 2 months ago 2
@MyLoveForTheStreets
I agree that this is art and good art at that, but why would you call it beautiful? Art doesn't have to be beautiful, it just has to express.
intervalkid 2 months ago
@intervalkid If that was the case, then all kids' fingerpaintings could be called art too. Kids express themselves that way. Defining art in this way is possible too, no objections from me. If, however, we're talking about Art with a capital A, as it is often understood, then the concept of beauty must come into play too. A work of art might be called a study of the concept of beauty;by discovering new angles to the concept, the artist shapes and creates new reality, new beauty, ART
AnnoNihilus 1 month ago
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@AnnoNihilus
I don't know where you get the idea that Art must be beautiful. If that is the case then this is not Art then. You will end up calling ugly and scarey things beautiful so as not to discredit their Artistic merit, which is detrimental. The Art is not detrimental, yet calling all Art beautiful and therefore lowering standards of beauty to include whatever atrocious form certain Artworks take into that definition is most certainly detrimental.
intervalkid 1 month ago
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intervalkid 1 month ago
@AnnoNihilus You are erring in several ways. Me saying that "art doesn't have to be beautiful it just has to express", certainly does not include unskilled dabblings such as finger painting, the definition doesn't exclude skill of expression. Making finger paintings would be about like someone making vocal utterances without words going "uh uh uh" that certainly doesn't express much of anything effectively. Art is built from skill in expression.
intervalkid 1 month ago
@intervalkid No, I never erred in any way. It is only now that you are making your message clearer, your initial message was not as explicit.
AnnoNihilus 1 month ago
@intervalkid I agree,whereas there is to say,there can be an aesthetic harmony of the beautiful as well as of the disturbing.It is like comparing a brilliant chord played by a string quartet with a highly overdriven guitar chord.there is ugliness in the distorted, in the disfigured shape.but on a higher level,looked upon in a wider frame,there is a consonance and structure even in seemingly denaturalized,dehumanized forms of expression which can be called aesthetic pleasure.
snufkin789 1 month ago in playlist fraying in a golden breeze
@snufkin789
I think that polymorphy is very cool sounding. Cool is a positive aesthetic but it is certainly not the same as beautiful. Fire and explosions look cool. They do not look beautiful however. Overdriven guitar chords aren't necessarily ugly nor beautiful but they can sound cool. Cool is a different aspect entirely not a degree in a gradient between ugly and beautiful.
intervalkid 1 month ago
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intervalkid 1 month ago
2001 space odyssey theme in the infinity voyage of dave bowman
darknessblackened 4 months ago
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The music is beautiful! And I don't find it scary, I find it uplifting and enlightening.
xxImRightBehindYouxx 4 months ago
The music is beautiful! And I don't find it to be scary, I find it uplifting and enlightening.
xxImRightBehindYouxx 4 months ago
Amazing! How is this possible to play this accurately?!
PAGANlNl 5 months ago
There is video of a live performance of this piece, conducted by the composer. Although, the quality is not very good. Search for:
Krzysztof Penderecki - Polymorphia (live @ European Culture Congress 2011)
rtyyy23 5 months ago
Yeah, masterpiece from Poland...
beerh 5 months ago
Google Autechre
claus4 6 months ago
@ARobinsonization, there's nothing good about expressing terror and insanity. We need to create new, life-supporting classical music instead of nightmare after nightmare. Nightmares are like violent movies; they lose their shock value after awhile, and thus lose their attractiveness.
KhagarBalugrak 6 months ago
@KhagarBalugrak Seems to me that you're too closed-minded to appreciate music, especially if you write something off based on it being scary. Depression and fear are the strongest human emotions from an artistic standpoint.
FlyingFuckstorm 5 months ago
@KhagarBalugrak We? Who? Don't insert us in a group which does not exist.
gustavoturm 4 months ago
@gustavoturm, well, I'm making a declaration that applies to all musicians. I'm not saying everyone reading this comment wants to avoid creating nightmarish music, much less that all people reading this agree with me. I'm saying all musicians SHOULD avoid making nightmarish music, because it disturbs and harms the body and mind and lowers consciousness.
KhagarBalugrak 4 months ago
@KhagarBalugrak I agree. After all, music has an important cosmetic function to validate and underline what is officially nice.
masterofpaint 4 months ago
@masterofpaint, nice bit of sarcasm there. What if music harms the listener? Because atonal music absolutely does harm living things. People have done experiments that prove it. Just because something isn't ugly and horrifying doesn't mean it's superficial. Actually, negativity is limited in its depth because of its tension and inability to expand or transcend.
Something is very wrong when writing life-supporting music is indefensible in the eyes of most classical musicians.
KhagarBalugrak 4 months ago
@KhagarBalugrak I would like to see some of these experiments. And without a drip of sarcasm, I'm very sure atonal music does cause stress in some people. But so does opera, at least for me. And what about all the other cultures with less-tonal traditions? Don't you think it would, in some occasions at least, be appropriate to cause less pleasant sonority as a mean of artistic expression? I personally find chaotic music very useful in processing the unexplainable madness of WW2 for example.
masterofpaint 4 months ago
@masterofpaint Define ugly, please! Ugliness is not an universal concept. That´s what is about art. About subjectivity
krakus5813 4 months ago in playlist Krzysztof Penderecki
@KhagarBalugrak You made me remember what the catholic said about the tritone...
MrBoiseau 4 months ago
@MrBoiseau, except, of course, that I'm not arguing against tritones. I'm arguing against ugly, nightmarish music like this. I can see that you think of all musical limits as evil; but there must be some limitations if music is to remain life-supporting. The same is true of every area of life. There must be limits in our behavior, or else we'll become murderers, rapists, etc. There must be a limit to how many people we have on this planet, or we'll kill the ecosystem. And so on.
KhagarBalugrak 4 months ago
@KhagarBalugrak "Life supporting my ass" - Nietzche
gustavoturm 4 months ago
@KhagarBalugrak "because it disturbs and harms the body and mind and lowers consciousness." Based on what?
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Huddiethegreat 6 months ago
I enjoyed listening to this.
342113853211A 7 months ago 29
when i hear this, i imagine a mushroom cloud slowly rising from the explosion, the sky turned red and everything getting destroyed.
LegalHeroin 8 months ago
This entire process is like descending into madness while your brain feels like it's about to explode and horrifying and maddening hallucinations dance around in front of you.
I imagine this is the kind of music you hear during a REALLY bad trip.
shenloken2 9 months ago 21
@shenloken2 During a really and real bad trip, you will just go in fokin psychiatry shit men :)
sENoZ93 2 months ago
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Just wow... this is unbelievable.
triggerbangfloat 10 months ago
now here is something i must pay attention to
dreampoets 10 months ago
I LOVE the humor of the ending! Absolutely brilliant!
pianoann 10 months ago
Some people I'd imagine, would be actually scared by this music in a dark room at night.. Forget your happy, uplifting stuff. Music is at its most powerful when it's at its darkest..
logybear86 10 months ago
@logybear86 There is room for all different emotions and ideas to be expressed through any medium of art. Within music however: tonality inhibits the expression of fear and depression. Listen to any Goth rock or Emo band you care to; they can't hold a candle to the modern avant-garde. At the same time, atonality gets in the way of positive emotions. Any "uplifting" piece of atonal music pales in comparison to any GOOD tonal music. There is room and need for both.
JimmyDFFDBorneo 9 months ago 3
@JimmyDFFDBorneo
Agreed. Nicely put!
logybear86 9 months ago
This, and Penderecki in general, is some of the scariest, most disturbing classical music I've ever heard.. and I fucking love it!!
Surely Hitchcock has used this stuff in some of his movies?
logybear86 10 months ago 3
@logybear86 No, but Kubrick, Friedkin, Lynch, Weir, and Scorcese have. Even Resnais had Penderecki score Je t'aime, Je t'aime.
RogueRotting360 10 months ago 4
*Polymorphia
andyserkis 11 months ago
at 8:53, '' THAT WAS THE BEST SHIT OF MY LIFE!!!!!"
yaashdev 1 year ago
This is so weird, its all ouf of tune from the begging till near end, and then in fishishes with a perfect candeza! I don´t get it!! 20th century music is aberrant!!
principessadolce22 1 year ago
What do you guys think of this? The piece is about the world being created, and all of the noise we hear before the triad is all of the work that's going on when our world is being created. Then when it is done, the major chord is the feeling of satisfaction.
13irdo 1 year ago
does anyone know any website listing mp3s of Penderecki?
Ardie83 1 year ago
Sounds like a hail storm from inside your car 4:50
bigvuch 1 year ago
At 6:15, sounds like a Tool song.
TraceOO7 1 year ago
@TraceOO7 sounds like Pushit by Tool, to be exact
andrewtrelease 1 year ago
I love how loud Pendereci's music becomes at the end!!
ultraexcited 1 year ago
It sounds like a bunch of rodents or imps or something running at you, and then it steps back and shows what they're running from.
vaguelyhumanoid 1 year ago 3
@vaguelyhumanoid mate that's a quitefull great comparision
yeahyeahyaha2 1 year ago
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vaguelyhumanoid 1 year ago
ending is LOL
firstroundko108 1 year ago
I am not going to lie, contrary to most people that commented on this, the ending felt totally fitting to me. I loved it. The entire piece put me on edge, and that last chord was EXACTLY what I wanted to hear after the suspense. Amazing.
TravisEdward 1 year ago 4
I can't believe the ending! It is so funny that all the strings end on a C chord. It's completely unexpected. Penderecki is awesome!
Confarius 1 year ago
I dont think it can be rated as important music, but it impresses me how a composer can manipulate an orchestra.
xxxScrotalRecall 1 year ago
@xxxScrotalRecall
Are you kidding? It's totally fucking important! Penderecki is one of the most influential modern composers!
vaguelyhumanoid 1 year ago 6
@vaguelyhumanoid
That depends: Only if the people he influenced can be regarded as important.
xxxScrotalRecall 1 year ago
@xxxScrotalRecall Do the names - John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith mean anything to you?
RogueRotting360 10 months ago
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@vaguelyhumanoid
That depends: Only if the people he influenced can be regarded as important.
xxxScrotalRecall 1 year ago
note buttate a cazzo su tutti gli strumenti che spreco diamo le orchestre per fare di queste merdate vergogna
amioparere1 1 year ago
@amioparere1 è proprio un tuo parere. personale e un po' ristretto. a mio parere.
f4keID 1 year ago
skinny faceless spawn of who knows what
PanzerFrog 1 year ago
Amazing!!
Possedee 1 year ago
somebody has the scorè? I am very curious to know how he got this sound...!
chuspita2009 1 year ago
It's weird that he looks kind of like William Friedkin and Stanley Kubrick rolled into one.
toiletholder 1 year ago
I have a couple of Penderecki's cd's........."Matrix 5" and "St Luke Passion". I play the Matrix 5 cd every year at Halloween time for the kids, at the front door as they're trick-or-treating !!
TheBeerNut1 1 year ago 3
if anybody'a interested and hasn't seen it yet..
a friend just showed me this great animated cartoon with Penderecki's music:
youtube.com/watch?v=y56nJKgQs7w
Marlenolomo 1 year ago
My sub-woofer is getting one HECK of a workout...
AnAmericanComposer 1 year ago
I picture myself at 1:58 in a forest at midnight, with the retched demons from hell coming to eat my intestines. Wow.
AnAmericanComposer 1 year ago
That final chord sounds exactly like the THX one haha
xTxRxAxVxIxSx 1 year ago
UHHHHHH That is so creepy!
AnAmericanComposer 1 year ago
I think I understand the major triad at the end. Usually, people hear atonal music and it is unsettling and strange. But Penderecki understands the musicality of it.
And when we listen to his entire piece, by the time we hear the ending chord, we are so used to hearing the atonal sounds that the Major Triad itself, the sound that music was based on for so many years, sounds strange and alien. Maybe it's a sort of irony.
d0c70rw0rm 1 year ago 6
@d0c70rw0rm Nicely put
AnAmericanComposer 1 year ago
@d0c70rw0rm the triad seems a little dated now, a corny touch. but arguably alien in its context, astonishing in its own way.
bbbartolo 1 year ago
I HAVE to watch this at midnight! YEAH!
AnAmericanComposer 1 year ago
How in the heck did he get strings to make those sound effects anyhow? Does anybody know?
AnAmericanComposer 1 year ago
@AnAmericanComposer, I have only marginal knowledge of music theory, but I'm willing to guess some of the sounds were made by literally striking or slapping the instrument. In other cases they simply mute the strings.
CodyRicheson 1 year ago
@AnAmericanComposer - string instruments can make some strange sounds...there's the "col legno" technique, which is where you hit the strings with the bow like a percussion instrument - it makes a hollow sound, very creepy. there's another variant where one uses the back of the bow which makes a screechy sound. wikipedia has an entire article on it, pretty comprehensive actually - "Bowed string instrument extended technique", check it out (:
k0schei 1 year ago
@AnAmericanComposer Studying his score will help you understand all those techniques. There are usually a few pages dedicated to deciphering his notation. It's a bit of a task at first, but you get used to it. It is FASCINATING to say the least.
linguamortua 1 year ago
@AnAmericanComposer
A lot of the effects are done by playing the notes between the bridge and the tailpiece, playing four-stringed arpeggio, using rapid tremolo, playing glissandos on quarter tones, playing on 'dead' or low pitches, thumping/tapping the wood of the violin, aand playing vibrato at different lengthwaves at once. There are others - but those are the basic ones that Penderecki put to good use.
Hosenfeld24601 1 year ago
Deep Thank for your work!!!! This is fantastic to can hear all these incredible beauties...
MiroslavH 1 year ago
at 4:58 it sounds like there is someone screaming in the background
psychopathtoine 1 year ago
is every single note and percussive sound actually written down?
psychopathtoine 1 year ago
ROFL... That major chord at the end is... Well, I don't have a word for it. Though, it has me laughing. Not sure if I like it or don't.
Anyway, that piece was epic. Even with that very out-of-place ending.
EuphoricDan 1 year ago
wow- kinda makes you wonder what penderecki had going on in that brilliant mind of his, huh?
I mean this is not sad, or happy, or anything else but BIZARRE, DISTURBING,
TERRIFYING, UNSETTLING- I've-just-been-stabbed-and-I'm-being-chased-through-a-very-old-large-spooky-as-fuck-house-with-very-little-lighting-and-hallways-and-stairs-like-mazes-with-only-a-lightning-storm(along with the clapping of ever more frequent thunder)-and-sporadic-candles-along-the-castle-like-walls-to-guide-the-way-SCARY
NitaBMe 2 years ago
@NitaBMe thats just why kubrick used it for the shining
jaralleras 1 year ago
Where and when can I hear this live?
mofinn 2 years ago
Who is the conductor? Penderecki himself?
varianteA 2 years ago
@varianteA This is the Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra, Henryk Czyz conducting
NewMusicXX 2 years ago
I love this stuff!
From 04:00 is just Mindblowing!!
theswampland 2 years ago
Superb !
neoplastik 2 years ago
I love it!
Darkwarrior702 2 years ago
Ive read that david lynch listens to penderecki really loud...no wonder...
cineasta71 2 years ago
Dare someone to try to go to bed while listening to this on their Ipod.
Because I sure as hell ain't gonna do it.
MikuMech 2 years ago 2
@MikuMech Did it. ;) I'm a creepy fucker that way though.
dancingzira 1 year ago
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
crepesoftime 2 years ago 36
Here's johny.......
owenmcgarel 2 years ago 2
@crepesoftime Hahaha, dude, that is CLASSIC! ^_^
TheMouseAvenger 1 year ago
Only a very disturbed and admired WOW!!!
Thanks New MusicXX
Awsome!!!!!
Zegismondo 2 years ago
This is amazing. Truly amazing.
pickleboy01 2 years ago
I agree! Truly agree.
jjordan391 2 years ago
Brilliant material
dvoraklargo 2 years ago
Love the ending! Groupie boys, keep pondering "the hidden meaning of the major triad". lol
dragmio 2 years ago
The SoundTrack for The Exorcist
fyrexia 2 years ago
It sounds like early Einsturzende Neubauten
caughtby999 2 years ago
@caughtby999 I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that...I <3 EN.
dancingzira 1 year ago
one of the most powerful pieces of music i've ever heard. the ending is superb - it awakes something like a release after this musical apokalypse.
lorenzarthur91 2 years ago 3
brilliant
garyeestra 2 years ago
*shivers*
Talvegue 2 years ago
once listened my head tingled around and i had to lay myself down, not to be blown away!
its genious, but its an apocalypse of music!
aeriality 2 years ago 2
haha the ending is hilarious
joznick1 2 years ago 48
@joznick1 yeh i know, that resolution doesnt go all that well
alexdelarge66 1 year ago
@joznick1 "tadaaa"
1234sss 8 months ago
I'm not sure which is more terrifying, this or Threnody.
howweuse 3 years ago
hermoso!!! xD
scriabinwasmydad 3 years ago
WOW...what a piece!
JeeRant 3 years ago
thank you!
galas06 3 years ago
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ikryl 3 years ago
An avalanche, "the Birds", a plague from the sky, a stampede - the power of mother nature . . . and . . . something else? Sooooo evocative, and powerful. Amazing. Enlightening. This is Music! Not a criticism, but (and it's probably just me) is the final resolve slightly incongruous? Or is it meant to be, and I just didn't quite "get it"? I Love this - have to give another listen. Thanks for the upload.
syr1811 3 years ago
I have to agree. It's a quizzical ending...I've tried listening to the ending a couple of times but I still find it puzzling. Unless it's supposed to be sarcastic --which I assume it isn't due to the serious nature of the work -- I can't for the life of me understand why he'd use a major triad in the end...
chlrldud74 3 years ago
Messiaen's music ends abruptly too-Chronocromia,oiseaux works-not all-The two composers use slightly different instruments to announce ,this is the end'.
ikryl 3 years ago
I wouldn't call the end abrupt, but I do think it's out of character with the rest of the work.
chlrldud74 3 years ago
@chlrldud74 ..on the contrary - it's the logical response to the apocalyptic mood before...
memzehni 2 years ago