George Antheil, Ballet mècanique, part 1

[ouviolin]

Freaking Awesome!!

[PhilPhilUSA]

wonderful piece! ... in every way ... 

[sirshitsalot007]

I feel like moshing

[batmanpronz]

so ahead of his time. Beautiful.

[MrJubjubjabberwocky]

Love it.

[wandagb]

I stumbled upon his book, "Bad boy of music" - utterly AMAZING. From the precocious child in New Jersey to a young man blazing a path in a gray Berlin where poverty is so grinding middle class women are selling themselves on the streets. Then colorful Paris and a who's who of the Twenties - Stravinsky, Sate, Pound... Even learn it was he and Hedy Lamarr who came up with the invention of frequency-hopping spread-spectrum technique of radio transmission.

Check your library or buy copy and enjoy.

[stubba06]

Mmmm quiffing...

[peppersax]

WTF!!! Where did this 'cat' come from. That's it!. I'm getting a job at Burger King flipping burgers. This guy is "off the hinges". LOVE IT!!!

[rekab7070]

This is the first time I have heard this composition. I am really thrilled with it!

I wonder if Bernstein got some of his ideas for using percussion from Antheil....maybe I am wrong but I do sense some influence.

[theeightsin]

This is what I like about the internet: everything is now at arm's reach. Without the internet I wouldn't know this artist, or Edgard Varèse, or Luigi Russolo, or ect ect.

The internet, if you don't look at all the porn and spam, is one of the greatest inventions.

[miiwiiplay]

@theeightsin just see porn as another benefit of the invention. Sexuality shouldn't be dismissed.

[mrlynch2005]

Great! Thanks for sharing!

[MuSixramper]

This sounds like a mechanical stravinsky...great!!!

[karatezombie]

I think it was Wired magazine that did an article on Antheil back in November of 1999. . I have one of the article's pictures of a page of his music complete with his own handwritten notes. I got a CD of his work from the public library. Anyway, Antheil is a pretty intense composer. I really like it.

[HomelyCooking]

Viscerally exciting! I love it!

[mahler151]

Do you think it's a possability he faded into obscurity because of his eventual sliding into the music for movies scene? I don't condemn him for it, but I bet he'd be a more contraversial figure today if he kept his self dubbed "bad boy" musical style. Food for thought. Thanks for posting.

[ViewerNotes]

this is the best version I heard ever of this marvelous piece. (Gruber?)

[GreggaryPeccary]

Indeed, yes

[superkulmedkniv25]

@GreggaryPeccary Dig your name. FZ

[rbcastillo]

Sorry , Allie Ross conducted the Jazz Symphony, Eugene Goossens conducted the Ballet Mecanique.

[rbcastillo]

This piece with Allie Ross conducting in New York, was booed mercilessly. It of course was ahead of its time.

[popoloclio]

Entre Stravisnsky y Prokofiev

[klop890]

In our days very oldfashioned, but this is absolutly the finest music from the roary twenties!

[DougYfunnie]

this is awesome..do you know when this was composed?

[GreggaryPeccary]

Wikipedia.

[DopeSpace9]

Oh i get it. You're an asshole.

[GreggaryPeccary]

Blocked.

Just kidding. Why do I have to look in Wikipedia for him? I provide

[jschnei3]

I favor always checking wikipedia before starting a conversation, as a rule.

[GreggaryPeccary]

That's a good start. Information as simple as that can be sought in less than a minute. I provide shitloads of free music and then get called an asshole because I tell people to do two clicks of their own

[hellskitchennews]

It was composed in the mid-1920s, as a musical accompaniment for Leger's silent film by the same name.

[SCOREdom]

this is brilliant! xD

[terrestial63]

thanks!!!!!!

[carpmmtal]

I´m having a little aknowledgement of modern American composer´s works.

Thank you very much for posting these video. Delightful

[DGatsby]

Such an interesting song! Thank you so much for posting.

[GreggaryPeccary]

No probs!