Poême électronique

[dido3run]

Shoda Ish got me here.. you should hear the song SHoda Ish - Historie electronique , its kinda the same beat, well made hip hop and the vid is the same, check it.

[kevari4life]

freaky as fuck

[mwvandersteen]

At the end (not included in this video) a text appears, in which electronics company Philips thanks the audience for attending the performance.

[xxxNoObyxxx]

oh God... Shit..

[RichHulsebus]

Zappa turned me on to this guy ......Thanks Frank !!!

[0lunoire1]

Oh sorry I meant "NO".

You see ? I was so scared the first time I could not even spell my words right. Jee...

[0lunoire1]

Did I just see the Ring's video for real ? Oh God ! I gotta tape this and send this to seven persons or else I'll d... Oh know it's just a poem from the sixties.



[BuckshotLaFunke1]

Even if I don't like the music, well done Philips!

[krasowsky12]

6:02 to 6:06 is the scarriest part!

[Grothmanus]

varese was truly a genius.

[WELCOMETOYOURLIFE]

@6:02 will scare you a lot sometimes

[Guitarmaster332]

primitive dubstep

[Goryllo]

@Guitarmaster332

modern dubstep!

[miamivicemastermixer]

@Guitarmaster332 I don't get it

[SapperThwack]

Does anyone else find this video/music combination incredibly terrifying?

[aznbryanc]

@SapperThwack Absolutely. Never do this while on any "substances."

[abstractmoment]

@SapperThwack I do! I was surprised at how terrified I was first listening to this

[mwvandersteen]

@SapperThwack Imagine what this would have been like for people visiting Expo '58 in Brussels, who had never seen or heard anything like this, standing in a dark room, not knowing what to expect, with sound and images coming at them from all sides.

[chickemily69]

wtf?

[AnarchiveMagnetik]

thank you

[Blumpkinlvr]

Youtube wants me to click on make-up tutorial how to fake abs.

[chosentube]

@Blumpkinlvr What excellent waste of money

[primarkopolop]

there is nothing more moving than when you close yours eyes and listen to this on good headphones. i get the feeling of being submerged in something so cataclysmally huge, its so overwhelming. i love it.

[Moussorgsky1]

Anyone know the translation of the opening credits?

[BorisVanMeurs]

@Moussorgsky1 My Englishisnotperfect,sothisisth­ebestIcando:"Philipsinventedau­tomatictechnologywhichstarteda­newsortofartwithoutlimits:theE­lectronicalharmonyoflight,colo­ur,wordandmusicinspace.TheElec­ronicPoem,composedbyLeCorbusie­randhisassistantVarése,showsho­wourmechanizedsocietylooksfora­futureofharmony.Thepresentatio­ncontainsthefollowingparts:the­creation,mindandmatter,fromdar­knesstodawn,Godsmadebymen,thus­Timemakessociety,harmony,tothe­wholeofhumanity."sorry,couldn'­tusespaces,oritwouldbetoolong:­P

[OwrKeeng]

this video shit im going to helll

[IrishClaudius]

and then man invented humour

[bremneshatten]

While by todays standards, this may sound rather cliqued, one has to remember all these sound effects were made directly from oscillators and such. Keyboard based synthesisers did not exist for at least another 5 to 7 years, probably more. What they were doing in context of what had not been done prior to 1958, would have been quite mind blowing. These types of sound effects were still being used right up to the 70s.

[arickettsf16]

1:19 is the funniest part in my opinion

[TomashekL]

2:07 - 2:09 its used TODAY in electro house or fidget. Great sounds..

[19fas88]

the use of silence in this piece is suppose to be evoking btw.  you tell me.

[Thischarminggirl1]

people who say this is random... are sooo wrong! music is never random, yeh sometimes when composing, it just comes naturally, but it takes a lot of thought to actually make these sorts of sounds, and put them together in a careful way.

i think a lot of you are trying to be judgemental without reading the history of this music.

also its not ment to be danced to or anything like that.. its to sit down and actually appreciate this as it is. i for one, can certaintly do that, time and time again.

[JeannineAnne]

This piece freaks me out....with or without the visual aids!

[jamich7]

without this experimental music the actual tunes would´t exist

[ceramicsgirl]

I'm pretty sure if Varese was around to hear Aphex Twin, he'd smile.

I'm also quite certain some music aficionados, particularly those who favor the classics, would find this to be the musical version of the blank canvas with a black dot on it. It has taken me years to appreciate it for what it is worth... pure experimentation arranged to be shared with the public.

[elflingArt]

Hehe, those people complaining about this piece makes me smile! This is not classical music! It is one of the earliest works in the field of multimedia.

Fans of the genre IDM recognise quite some sounds from this work in their musiccollection.

@camunist: It was electronical music continuing in this direction, evolving in acid/house/techno/gabber/drum&­bass/dubstep, just to name a few. These kinds of styles I wouldn't regard as dead, on the contrary! But how is classical music doing these days? =]

[Ran7man77]

Neoclassicism is just a genre of what is called "20th century art music" which a lot of which should not even be considered music. However there are many modern composers that write new pieces which many people would consider more "classical."

[CaptainBuster]

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[samanthag153]

This is defiantly not classical music. this is clearly electronic music.

[frichikendz]

Ugh, it happened during the time period of neoclassicism. This is the first piece that was electronically manipulated. No instruments involved.

[camunist]

This just makes me sad. i cannot even take it seriously. i hope classical music does not continue in this direction otherwise it is dead. -AF

[thebuenafortuna]

does someone have the translation of the text that appears in the beginning?

[vanderbilt887]

Philips has designed automatic equipment, which heralds a new art with unlimited possibilites, namely the combined action of light, color, images, words and music in space.

The 'electronic poem', put together by Le Corbusier, his co-worker Xenakis and the musician Varese, shows how our ever increasingly mechanical civilization strives for a new future harmony.

The performance consists of the following components:

[vanderbilt887]

The creation

Mind and matter

from darkness till dawn

gods created by men

thus time forged society

harmony

to the whole of humanity

[weiratherk]

Coffee Heath Bar Crunch Ice Cream

[IpkisStanley]

a squid, eating dough in a polyethelene bag is fast and bulbous. get me?

[sclayburn]

it is interesting....

[nqueen420]

This is great.

[djminimoto]

#9,#9.

[Shwazz01]

From my understanding Music is the art of sound in time expressing ideas/emotions through rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. Most I can give this piece credit for having is color... I'm sorry but I don't consider this music in the least. Hahaha it would be pretty damn hilarious seeing somebody try to dance/sing along to this though..haha

[Moffles0919]

well the idea of expressing ideas and emotions in music didnt really hit untill Opera

but this DOES have musical form, it comes back to alot of the sounds

[akira1099]

I'm gonna be 'that' guy here for a second ;) . The ideas of expressing ideas and emotions arguably started with the ancient Greeks. Greek music was responsible for the Florentine Camerata after all, out of which came opera. Check out the Seikilos epitaph. Prime example on which early Italian opera was based. You can see the influences in early masterworks such as Monteverdi's Orfeo.

[Moffles0919]

well how exactly do we know this? how much of greek and roman music do we actually have? we can interpret and guess what they sounded like, and thats pretty much it...

[akira1099]

True. But that was opera's influence regardless. It came out of a group of minds gathering together to recreate Greek music.

[Moffles0919]

exactly, they recreated it by guessing. they dont know how to read the written greek/roman music (if any was)

and the instruments are guesses as well, no one knows exactly how its SUPPOSED to sound like...

[KentuckyKid84]

It's pieces like this that prove Berio's point about the futility of comparing music to speech. While you can sometimes assign a program, they are, in fact, two completely distant realms. Varese creates a mood of creepiness and mystery that can't be recreated by just throwing together sounds at random one time; that's why pieces like this can take years to create: you have to get it just right.

[georgelee43211]

this is like the beatles ''revolution 9''.

[IpkisStanley]

or zappa's lumpy gravy

[georgelee43211]

i've bought his lumpy gravy,freak out and we are only in it for the money his stuff comes a lot closer to those avant garde artist.

[ctmachine]

There was a realse on Columbia records that was more awesome. It had more reverb ans spatialness to the recording. Though this sounds like the original recording..its too dry. I visited the Brussels

site and it was an awesome plave. This is one of the grand-daddy of electonic pieces that started my love for electronic music.

[Sunrain89]

and 4:42 is scary sh!t too

[Sunrain89]

ya ur right 4:10 to 4:20 is scary sh!t

[MageKirby]

lol at turkeys at 3:00

I dunno what to say about this piece. It's really cool this was made back in the days though. Big hand to Varese for that.

[sisteremz]

im sorry, but i just cant appreciate this as music, its just a collcetion of noises.

the video along side the "music" is really quite disturbing.

[mblavis77]

that was one hell of an acid trip my friend.

[baby13sc]

hell naw! this is sick!!

synthesizer!!!

[Intrafacial86]

I had this in music app class...and loved every minute of it. The version we listened to started at 5:08 but I'm glad I found this full version.

4:12 is some scary sh¡t 8S

BTW noobs, there is more emotion in here then any one of our brains can handle. Most music is orderly emotion. This is chaotic emotion.

This is like the first YTP ever, and also reminds me of the battle with Giygas in Earthboud (Mother 2).

[cherrykiisses]

im sorry to be rude but wtf type of emotion is in this? i mean it was genius of him to make this and actually have a fan base, but wtf. there is no emotion, just sounds.

[Buschox]

indeed :S I find it all very random; there are a lot of other possibilities!!

[baby13sc]

well research when this was composed, and how and maybe youll understand.

[Moffles0919]

well, music ISNT emotion, it tries to make you feel an emotion, which is the goal of what i believe you would call music.

well when listening to this, i feel kinda scared, creeped out, strange, etc

so it does "have emotion"

[CamiMahecha]

is the science of sound...

[listen2trance]

Listened to this in music app class. How the heck am I supposed to study this?

[AudioKid2k8]

I laughed quite a bit when I heard this in class.

[3coolio]

i listen to this in my music aperciation class and i like it

[M0N3t7]

Cool! ME TOO! hahah! I liked it too, it made me think of Kraft Werk,...for some reason. And this piece, to me, is like the representation of the mind---random thoughts, how our dreams are distorted pictures, etc. Anyways, I liked it was my whole point. lol :D

[3coolio]

i felt the same way

[M0N3t7]

Cool :)

[ALXXMaXX]

@M0N3t7 From what I've heard Ralf and Florian were fans of this experimental crowd in their early days; Stockhausen and the like.

[crazzyguydj]

why would you even say you "desperately want to hear this again" this is random sounds and randomness. This guy pretty much found a way to compile every electronic sound he could find and mix in some wacky visuals.

O but its "amazing"

[drevildick]

Accept, it's not random at all. They meant every second of it.

[elaine31347]

This was the first electronic music I ever heard. I was at an Alpha Phi Delta fraternity party at Cornell University, at the frat house, 1966. This music was playing in another room. The last 60 seconds were playing, full blast, on gigantic speakers. I had no idea what was going on. I thought the room was about to take off...At the age of only 19, it was the most amazing, frightening and awe inspiring music i had ever heard in my life and it gave me a love electronic music to this day.

[DerangedRanger1]

@elaine31347 far out

[scopein79]

I just don't get it.

[ruboikmog]

fuck you

[Rainb0wProductions]

One of the best pieces i've heard in a LONG time.. The emotion it portrays is just perfect.. Simply amazing, very clever composer ^_^ 5 stars

[SourChiliHeat]

I just heard this in music class today. Very fucking cool

[64098]

This must be the original video that played to this piece. It's great to hear this and actually see the video.

[Marcownage22]

wtf O.o

[TuesdayNovember]

Awesome!

I was learning about this peice today in music class, I desperately wanted to hear it again.

This is so cool!