Babbitt- Ensembles for Synthesizer (1/2)

[thegradgrinder]

Digital synths will never recreate as raw and original sounds. Absolute class!

[1010karlk0101]

Skrillex!!

[joejoe31482]

Like if u just got creeped out.

[robertsonator]

BANGER!



[isis347]

omg, i'm just praying this won't be a piece I need to hear tomorrow for my exams :(

thanks for uploading btw, because it's hard finding all the musicpieces on the internet.

[INeverWanted2010]

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[gamexprt1]

Inspiring stuff. It's hard to believe it was made almost 50 years ago.

[maxyudin]

You guys imagine it was in 1950-s. Not imagine, but live with it.

60 years ago!

[ImSoSexilicious]

@maxyudin 1964

[VelociraptorCookies]

You cannot grasp the true form of Babbitt's attack!

Stockhausen prayed...

"please, whoever listens to this, grant me hope. The hope to survive to produce more avant garde music"

The prayer was absorbed by the darkness!

STOCKHAUSEN STOCKHAUSEN STOCKHAUSEN STOCKHAUSEN...

I FEEL... GOOD.

IT HURTS. IT HURTS.

You cannot grasp the true form of Babbit's attack!

GAME OVER.

[John11inch]

@VelociraptorCookies

Check my other channel: NESnostalgia.

[CrimsonCleff]

psycho acoustics , anyone got some math formulae?

[diskochimp]

This is terrific, thanks for posting.

[superAJ71]

R.I.P. Milton Babbitt.

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

Just in case any jackasses find their way to this video...

From Wikipedia:

"In 1948, Babbitt joined Princeton University's music faculty and in 1973, became a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School in New York."

Yeah. It's all just "random."

[RamoththeGolden]

@ORUPRANKSTAZ What do you mean by it being random? Do you mean they made it up as they went along or just made what ever sound they wanted whenever they wanted?

[andrewbareham]

@RamoththeGolden I believe he was being sarcastic. Milton Babbit is well known for his work in creating the twelve tone matrix to aid in the composition of twelve-tone music. Most people who are unfamiliar with this style of music hear it as random when in reality, every note is intentionally put on a certain beat with a certain articulation, dynamic, etc. Therefore it is FAR from random.

I believe @ORUPRANKSTAZ was just be facetious.

[RamoththeGolden]

@andrewbareham Wow. Well I thought it was beautiful.

[andrewbareham]

@RamoththeGolden I agree. It is an absolutely gorgeous piece. I want to clarify that I was not attempting to come across as rude or anything.

[RamoththeGolden]

@andrewbareham You did not seem rude at all. You were simply being informative.

[LackingLack0]

Aww yeah this is the good stuff

[John11inch]

Care to elaborate?

[Rachman1337]

Sounds like a Zelda game on acid.

[bottha123]

The section at 3:46 always reminded me of a TV station going off the air.

Love this piece!

[SweetSweetWaldo]

Well, when I had my music appreciation 101 class in college, the cassette supplement (yes, I go that far back) had the sole example of electronic music announced as "Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizers" Of course, it was excerpted. I look for years and years for it until I found it on an 1967 Columbia LP New Electronic Music from the Leaders of the Avante-Garde w/ Cage's Variations II and Pousseur's Trois "Visages De Liège." Needs a reissue!

[ILIKECYNIC]

Wow, I've never heard this piece before, can I ask where you got it from?

[John11inch]

I think from the AGP.

[Thrash0Jazz0Assassin]

@John11inch I can't find it on the AGP!!!! =(

[zenocomplex]

Yes! Excellent post. I wish people were more willing to receive this music. It deserves a lot more respect than it gets.

[Kirke182]

Thnks for posting this. This is the stuff that needs to be preserved.

[yesmandroc]

Thanks God someone posted this. I've been wanting to listen to this for years. Once in a while I find the record for sale online, but I'm never quite willing to spend that much money.