György Ligeti, Aventures

[vassiliscompo]

Where is the finale!?!?!?!?!?!?!???

[Encom7]

In my nightmares this is what hell sounds like.

[eddievhfan1984]

A man like Ligeti should not exist, but he does. This composition is just so DAMN amusing and weird.

[CradleInTheCrater]

Wat?

[Scarbogn]

Some parts of it remind me of Bartok, i do like Bartok but i find ligeti way off my type of music :/

[KelleyLSheehan]

@Scarbogn early Ligeti often sounds like late Bartok.

[PietkaMS]

This face... I... But... Argh, i can't

[Bagas]

This musical idea of "fracturing the words into syllables", definitely came from Nono. So this piece is NOT innovative at all. Still, ain't half-bad... the humor especially...

[KelleyLSheehan]

@Bagas its a dominant organizational factor by this time and has been around for quite a while. It is like saying multiphonics are suppose to be innovational and then pointing out the earliest people who have tried it. Not useful or educational.

[semprealtopOK]

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!!

THE BLOODY BEETROOTS SUCKS LIGETI COCK AT BREAKFAST!!!!

YEOOOOO

[athb4hu]

Ligeti is (was) amazing! I even saw him give a lecture in London once, many moons ago. It may be weird, it may be whacky, but it is still so moving!

Magyar zsidó, Erdélyből, úgy tudom??

Éljen az avant-garde!

[iKrautsalat]

play this song in public area loudly ... it would be interest how people react because of this

[JerkFaceVocals]

This is kinda frightening and kinda funny at the same time and sounds vaguely familiar but I can't place it.

[TaterGumfries]

Needs more banjo.

[MikeFreakinByrne]

i'm sorry. this is seriously the dumbest thing i've ever heard. go ahead and bash me for saying this, but it seriously is. i know his intention wasn't serious at all. i'm totally aware of it. but i still find this mind numbingly stupid.

[RandyLahey911]

@MikeFreakinByrne its the music to 2001, i think he meant it

[bestEVAandEVA]

ligeti must have been drunk when he had that idea of "aventures"......

[ctimur]

@bestEVAandEVA somebody hears new music for the first time?

[AyumuVanguard]

@emperorIng360 Don't go dissin' Stockhausen! Babbitt is all right. This does sound like he's just copying the rest of modern music and trying to (and doing a very good job of being) funny.

Anyways, this isn't @ anyone who posted in the comments, but what's up with the tags? Trying to get this popular? It's not doing a very good job...

[apollomwj]

is this terrifying or funny?

[0180917]

this is disturbing

[Tykell]

This is terrifying.

[fuzzyfeet]

@Tykell The first time i listened to Ligeti I seriously thought someone was going to kill me with a knife. It's absolutely terrifying. The amount of expression he creates is unbelievable. And the mourning heard in his music is astounding.

[AMAZINGbabies]

for some reason this doesnt seem funny to me in any way just absolutely incredible

[thoughtsthroughsound]

wtf?

[enemyofbohemia]

I have another recording of this that came with the 2001 A Space Odyssey soundtrack. This piece always puts comical imagery in my head.

[JRR951]

@enemyofbohemia Was this composition in the film? I don't remember hearing it, yet I would think something as unique as this would stand out to me

[enemyofbohemia]

@JRR951 Its in the scene where David Bowman arrives in the alien "zoo" toward the end of the film. Only part of it is heard and it is somewhat distorted but its there.

[rjr1967]

It's interesting to compare this with Artikulation - one for voice, the other electronic, but the effect is not that different :-) But I think I find Artikulation even more humorous. Though I've never SEEN Aventures - I'm sure humour can be added liberally by some non-shy singers.

[ludi2501]

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[okayillgonow]

0:37 - 0:40

[BachRocks314]

I was fortunate enough to see Aventures and the Nouvelles Adventures performed by members of the L.A. Philharmoic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. It is one of the most memorable experiences of my life.

[zeevici]

great! amazing!

[jschnei3]

Is this performed from a score? Or did the composer just meet with the performers at every rehearsal and describe what he wanted?

[sousukesagaraJKD]

Nope, it's from a score.

[GreggaryPeccary]

A VERY precise one, in fact

[sousukesagaraJKD]

At measure 10 there's a fantastic effect: the horn must play a waning B singing into the instrument, causing some sort of tremolo :)

[jschnei3]

Holy cow.  Somebody should make a video showing the score, synchronized to the music.

[lukasnickel]

@jschnei3 its a complete score of 42 pages with 29 pages extra of explanation:)

[taoufiks]

hhhhhhh c est surement un fou à part lux aeterna c est nul

[ulfpronz]

This song makes me cry as well... because it's so amazing

[emperorIng360]

This song makes me laugh as well.

It's good that this is the intention.

Whereas the stuff similar to this made by say, Babbit or Stockhausen just is depressingly bad to me.

[GreggaryPeccary]

Yeah, I'm not a massive fan of those two, either.

[musicalidea]

Babbit, while quite dry, is a better craftsman than Stockhausen.

[emperorIng360]

Perhaps it's the lack of a ginormous ego.

[MusicaRicercata]

@emperorIng360 I can't speak for Babbitt, but concerning Stockhausen, you find works like Stimmung, Carré, Momente, and Mikrophonie II bad?

[emperorIng360]

@MusicaRicercata

I suppose I should have chosen better words... a year ago.

I don't like Stockhausen all that much outside of a few works (like Kreuzspiel). I don't like Microphonie II, either.

Instead of "depressingly bad" I should say "overly dissonant, dry, and displeasing to my ears." Which I'm sure you disagree with, ha.

Babbit I just can't stand. I've yet to hear a song of his I like, and I keep on listening to prove me wrong.

[heysailer]

As a baritone, I always thought this would be a fun piece to sing! Where can I find a score online for free?

[GreggaryPeccary]

I don't know. You're assuming there is a free score online...

[heysailer]

No, I guess I was naive. Have to search the libraries. I found a wonderful score for Atmospheres in our Hennepin County, MN library system, so I'm sure they are out there, if one searches enough! Thanks.

[docrhythm2]

I've got one. It's astonishingly difficult rhythmically. I was considering a staged version, but the counting is way too fierce I think. Perhaps better would be live musicians with dancers. The pitfall would be to start making it "significant". No need for the audience to know how hard you're working.

[musicalidea]

7:56 - 8:15 is an obvious self-parody of the Requiem...lol.

[Philosophaster]

LOL. Great stuff.

[saladshootavvv]

@musicalidea I thought that as well! I think lots of parts are parodies of other pieces. I could swear I hear parts of gesang der jung in this, but I could be wrong

[musicalidea]

@saladshootavvv There was so me article I read a long time ago when I was a music student in which I recall Ligeti as having revealed that he did indeed parody his Requiem and a few other pieces in this piece. I think this sharp, comical jutting cartoonish effect bears resemblance to Kurtag and continues into the 1980s with Ligeti.

[musicalidea]

There's a great monograph on this piece that attempts to analyze the elements and stemming from a collection of sounds and gestures associated with 5 particular affects - excitement, embarrassment, disgust, etc. - and their subcombinations. I forget the author of course. It comes with a similarly startling analysis of Ludoslawski's Trois Poemes d'Henri Michaux.

[musicalidea]

Fantastic performance. Extremely demanding repertoire. The score is rather precise, in fact.

[LelandPD]

I'm just not down for 20thc stuff like this. I just can't enjoy it unless it's overture

[knucmo]

What a strange piece!