I was ten years old and I went into this pavillion at the Brusell's World's Fair and they were playing this really weird music and there were some random images that they projected here and there. The inside was all concrete with slopes and angles. I left and I thought, "I''ll just wait until they have a Youtube video of this nuttiness."
Sound that is created, manipulated, or utilized by living entities–humans in particular–and is intended for at least some kind of audience, be it just for the composer(s), or for millions of others.
this is a collection of sounds which dont appear to be linked together. Doesnt fit the category of music imo. More like a test track for a 50s scifi film.
@TheWomblemaster Not to pick a fight (I don't mean to sound hostile), but the whole point was to liberate the idea of music, and use sounds that were previously not considered "musical." It's a post-war redefinition of the idea of what constitutes "music."
This is freaking horrible and I'd probably kill myself if I had to listen to much of it. However, the "song" makes more sense if you actually research it :/ Just sayin
I think it would be better if the pavilion was still built, as hearing this piece through 350 speakers and seeing the video which be quite amazing to hear / see.
The way technology was used during the time the piece was made is quite amazing as well.
@WHFRhys you have to be relatively openminded to think of this as music, most humans arent open to change, so listening to this is shocking for people who usually only listen to stuff from say, radio
@WHFRhys oh yes, i have heard of stockhausen, i personally like stuff along the lines of autechre and iannis xenakis, but i was just expressing an opinion that most people feel a bit jarred when they listen to something completely new
I am listening to this for my music appreciation class. Its interesting but I am having a hard time appreciating it! Ouch! This hurts my ears and maybe my heart a little. Yucky! I won't completely devalue it though. I am sure it touches someone in a less painful way than it did me!
After I watched and listened to this, I kinda expected my phone to ring and voice telling me that I only have seven days to live. It's that level of disturbingness. And I like it.
@elysiumx2 HAHAHAHAHAHA that's totally what I said when I listened to this. It's SUPER CREEPY. glad you mentioned The Ring because that's what my mind jumped to aswell. LOL
this is farting with no sense of humour, this so called "music". this is crap like Schoenberg or Berg crap, arrogant and untalented farts of sound. this is hilarious that this kind of shit has so many supporters, i don't know, because of trend, because of "higher comprehension of Music" or something like being pure snob.
And there is no poem here, no poetry when combined with soubd, only ambition - or I should state it with capital A - Ambition of creators of this shit.
@przemeklosko Varese is one of the most well recognized early electronic musicians. Just because you're listening to this 50+ years after it was composed and recorded does not, in any way, make it 'bad'. Think about what had been done before this, and what was being done at the time.
I think I may have just had a seizure from being pissed off at why this even got publicity. I had to view this for my music appreciation class for my community college listening log assignment. I am royally disgusted.
@slimdave2011 you and me both buddy! I just had this crapola called "music" thrusted upon me by my community college. I think it should be renamed to "my broken AM radio"
@floydhead1491 a) I have no mustache b) I don't understand your reasoning. I like good music, therefore I'm a creepy fuck? c) If you don't like the music, just leave. Allow people, like me, who actually enjoy it the freedom to listen to it without being annoyed with rude comments. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean you should show disrespect towards it..
@floydhead1491 nah, I'm not the grammar police, I'm the fucking grammar dictator, bitch. I'll bet you're from the south. You show off that kind of ignorance.
@FZmustacheFZ so not only are you an aging nerd, you also like to stereotype. you care that much about spelling? scuk my dcik you wrtohlses pceie of shit. ;)
@floydhead1491 How do you come up with nerd? I'm genuinely interested. And yeah, I do stereotype. It's quicker. Not to mention that that's really not even that much of a stereotype.
Look up Poème électronique on Wikipedia. An excerpt from the article:
Varèse designed a very complex spatialization scheme which was synchronized to the film. Prefiguring the acousmonium style of sound projection, hundreds of speakers were controlled by sound projectionists with a series of rotary telephone dials. Each dial could turn on five speakers at a time out of a bank of 12. Many estimates of the pavilion's sound system go as high as 450 speakers.
Dolphinbrain, thank you for posting this. I had the LP years ago and moving around, it went the way of all things. I was delighted to hear this wonderful and refreshing work! For you young 'uns out there, you've no idea how painstaking it was to create a piece of music like this. Add to that, it says something about the enormous creatvity and plasticity of mind of Varese, that, so late in his career he was still at the cutting edge of music tech (as it was in 1958). Thanks again!
Varese was actually arguing for the point that any sort of sound or silence can be considered music depending on the artist or listener. You may hate this music, but that's just the point Varese was trying to make. You may not like it, but others do.
Oh my god damn. I be studying this in music. I love how I come here and everybodys got something to argue about. It's all very entertaining but in all honestly this is a whole other thing. If anything we should be discussing what the fuck this means. Does anybody know what the fuck this means? I sure as hell don't. It's interesting but I really am clueless. How about we at least discuss and argue that one.
I don't take drugs, so am unable to relate to the comments of those who do, but as to wether or not Varese's 'Poeme' goes hand-in-hand with them I can't say. Frankly, the work goes down rather well after the second Martini [6-parts Bombay Sapphire Gin, 1 part Noilly Prat vermouth, 1 sliver of quarter-inch magnetic tape]. Cheers!
Fake how? What I meant is that I have done acid and things do not get easier to do... well... sometimes they do but in general... anyways I was high when I wrote it.
@Timelander4d Youtube doesn't do the piece justice, it's intended to be listened to with a complex audio setup. The original presentation at the World Fair involved 350 speakers, and was quite a feat of audio engineering for its time.
@ifeeltiredsleepy I agree with that the piece itself almost seems like its more of a preformance art piece than a piece of music alone, and the presentation was definatly part of the preformance.
Folks seem to have mixed-up two different questions here: This is obviously music, very influential and ground-breaking music I might add, but this doesn't automatically mean it's good. I might not agree with all the works of Picasso, for example, but claiming that he didn't produce paintings is just plain ridiculous. As to whether this piece is "good", I personally think this format is very limiting: it was made as part of an installation. Guernica isn't very impressive as a JPG either.
@arias0clara This is not the original video. The original was B/W images relating to different aspects of human life played within the interior of the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World Fair of 1958.
Not to sound ignorant at all cause I really don't want to seem that way at all. I don't fully understand how this is music? Can someone explain it to me? Maybe I'm just not understanding this correctly lol can someone explain it to me?
@oneriver101 The classic modern definition of music is "organized sound", reputedly coined by Edgard Varèse, one of the composers of what you just heard. This particular piece obviously fits that definition with ease. The definition can actually be used to categorize far more than you might think at first. Like Cage's classic "3:44", where the only thing truly organized is the time... or even completely random, everyday sound where the organizer is the listener who choose what to focus on.
I just wanna know if there's anywhere i could see a good photo of the philips pavillion in it's heyday... INSIDE AND OUT! or at least a good recreation. and was it just under 400 speakers in surround sound or just over?
This is complete shit. I'm sorry but randomly composed sounds is not music. The only people that claim to enjoy this are snooty cunts that pose as "intellectuals".
The music is better without the visual added by Le Corbusier. These images have no conceptual point with the piece by varese. By instance he has a bullfighter as it starts; the idea of Le Corbu bullfighting is plain pathetic and ridiculous. He should have sticked to building his thing. However this piece by Varese adventured a sight beyond his time.
i suggest you read about concrete music before being so judgemental, i do agree most concrete music is not "pretty" but it has its historical weight you shouldnt just ignore, that is if you are into electronic music at all, if not, well then i think id understand the empty words you just typed here :)
Philips has designed an automatic device, one that heralds new art with unlimited possibilities, namely the electronic interplay of light, color, image, word and music in the room.
The 'electronic poem "curated by Le Corbusier, Xenakis and his assistant Yean musician Edgard Varese, shows how our increasingly mechanized civilization strives for a new future harmony.
People were meant to hear it as they walked through phillips pavilion at brussel's world fair in 1958..so this video may not have any official connection per se
Varese came before Stockhausen by about 45 years and nobody was doing this stuff before him. No Varese means no Stockhausen. I doubt Karlheinz himself would have considered 'the father of electronic music' an "under-Stockhausen".
This was an exhibit at the Brussels World Fair of 1958. I think it was one of the first multimedia presentations. People walked throught the exhibit and the images were flashed on the walls while the music played. Way better than sitting looking at a computer screen.
OOOOOOOOOGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAA OGGGGGGGAAYYYYYYYAEAHHHHHH!
kittennotebooksuprem 7 hours ago
I was ten years old and I went into this pavillion at the Brusell's World's Fair and they were playing this really weird music and there were some random images that they projected here and there. The inside was all concrete with slopes and angles. I left and I thought, "I''ll just wait until they have a Youtube video of this nuttiness."
thisismyname007 1 week ago
yeahhh !! the best ....
Reiiiy1 2 weeks ago
My first impression is that I am stuck inside an estranged Sci-Fi series and being hurtled through space and time. . .
jidfurikuri 3 weeks ago
I still can't get the point of this 'music'. Lol.
shazgoh 1 month ago
Music-
Sound that is created, manipulated, or utilized by living entities–humans in particular–and is intended for at least some kind of audience, be it just for the composer(s), or for millions of others.
SyluxLockjaw 1 month ago
....And then acid was invented
stratforme 1 month ago 4
So this is where Willy Wonka got the clips for when the boat was going through the tunnels?
elk832 1 month ago
I sense an interpretive dance coming
tigressive 1 month ago
Why is the recording in monaural sound?
jslasher1 1 month ago
So strange . can't understand
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I like the general idea of this...but it did not say anything to me...
Poemsapennyeach 2 months ago
this is a collection of sounds which dont appear to be linked together. Doesnt fit the category of music imo. More like a test track for a 50s scifi film.
TheWomblemaster 3 months ago
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@TheWomblemaster Not to pick a fight (I don't mean to sound hostile), but the whole point was to liberate the idea of music, and use sounds that were previously not considered "musical." It's a post-war redefinition of the idea of what constitutes "music."
IronArmAtomMusic 3 months ago
@TheWomblemaster They're linked by being in one piece. It's music, just not melodic or rhythmic.
AnotherRandomGeek 2 months ago
@TheWomblemaster The Forbidden Planet
sirmercutio99 2 months ago
stoned artist.
enkidupont 3 months ago
This is freaking horrible and I'd probably kill myself if I had to listen to much of it. However, the "song" makes more sense if you actually research it :/ Just sayin
katie66080 3 months ago
@katie66080
I think it would be better if the pavilion was still built, as hearing this piece through 350 speakers and seeing the video which be quite amazing to hear / see.
The way technology was used during the time the piece was made is quite amazing as well.
WHFRhys 3 months ago
"Yes, yes, yes, all very modern and very socialist!"- Basil Fawlty
lekocafe 3 months ago
lol 4:05 almost sounds like mr burns.
r0bz0rly 4 months ago
:megusta:
TheWarOwl 5 months ago
Can definitely hear a lot of Pink Floyd and similar artists in here. What an incredible work!
Terribliz 5 months ago
Thumbs up if you're listening to this for your quiz tmrw at BC :D !
paljoke 5 months ago
sorry but I don't consider this as music .....
koklozina 5 months ago
@koklozina Then you have obviously completely missed the point of this and the likes of 4.33.
WeirdBeardMan 4 months ago
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@koklozina Then you have obviously completely missed the point of this and the likes of 4.33.
WeirdBeardMan 4 months ago 5
@WeirdBeardMan yes ma boiiiiiiiiiiiiii
buddyfan1959 4 months ago
@koklozina
You sir, clearly do not understand what music is.
WHFRhys 4 months ago
@WHFRhys you have to be relatively openminded to think of this as music, most humans arent open to change, so listening to this is shocking for people who usually only listen to stuff from say, radio
jailbreakir 4 months ago
@jailbreakir
Well this was made before Music we listen to today, so its more past music then change.
Also, anything can be music. Such as Noise music.
Try listening to Stockhausen: "Gesang der Junglinge" , its still music, just different
WHFRhys 3 months ago
@WHFRhys oh yes, i have heard of stockhausen, i personally like stuff along the lines of autechre and iannis xenakis, but i was just expressing an opinion that most people feel a bit jarred when they listen to something completely new
jailbreakir 3 months ago
man, this is creepy... >_<
phsycokinesis 5 months ago
I am listening to this for my music appreciation class. Its interesting but I am having a hard time appreciating it! Ouch! This hurts my ears and maybe my heart a little. Yucky! I won't completely devalue it though. I am sure it touches someone in a less painful way than it did me!
christskat 5 months ago
to make electronic music, you needed to use a tone generator and record each individual note seperately.
henrimoon 6 months ago
my fart sounds better than this..
arvinguinto 6 months ago
We had to listen to this in my Music Appreciation class..... I want all 8:27 of my life back!
LeoKing03 6 months ago
After I watched and listened to this, I kinda expected my phone to ring and voice telling me that I only have seven days to live. It's that level of disturbingness. And I like it.
elysiumx2 7 months ago 17
@elysiumx2 HAHAHAHAHAHA that's totally what I said when I listened to this. It's SUPER CREEPY. glad you mentioned The Ring because that's what my mind jumped to aswell. LOL
waitwhatandwhy 2 months ago
this is farting with no sense of humour, this so called "music". this is crap like Schoenberg or Berg crap, arrogant and untalented farts of sound. this is hilarious that this kind of shit has so many supporters, i don't know, because of trend, because of "higher comprehension of Music" or something like being pure snob.
And there is no poem here, no poetry when combined with soubd, only ambition - or I should state it with capital A - Ambition of creators of this shit.
przemeklosko 7 months ago
@przemeklosko Varese is one of the most well recognized early electronic musicians. Just because you're listening to this 50+ years after it was composed and recorded does not, in any way, make it 'bad'. Think about what had been done before this, and what was being done at the time.
kensabeast9 3 months ago
Beyonce listened to it and she will do a dance. And if we are lucky and sing as backup.
monktrane325 7 months ago
Beyonce listened to it and she will do a dance.
monktrane325 7 months ago
Beyonce listened to it and she will do a dance.
monktrane325 7 months ago
i dont really approve of using holocaust photos for shock value but thats just my opinion.
callumWLB 7 months ago
Hipsters, I you think you guys could comprehend this.
lcaptainlcapl 7 months ago 2
this is actually kinda cool. dont be so cruel, it was only an experiment pushing forward the revolution that is electronic age.
thenamesfrancisco 8 months ago
I think I may have just had a seizure from being pissed off at why this even got publicity. I had to view this for my music appreciation class for my community college listening log assignment. I am royally disgusted.
slimdave2011 8 months ago
@slimdave2011 Why don't you kill yourself, kid? Or take MY humanities class for which I'm downloading it. REVENGE OF THE NERDS!!!!!
princeminski47 7 months ago
@slimdave2011 you and me both buddy! I just had this crapola called "music" thrusted upon me by my community college. I think it should be renamed to "my broken AM radio"
RationalRedneck 5 months ago
2:06 - R2-D2 solo
DHAR3070 8 months ago 12
@DHAR3070 lmao
thenamesfrancisco 8 months ago
wth is that?
Xdave2592X 8 months ago
This video makes me want to stab myself in the neck with a pencil...
VampireBeast21 8 months ago
BIP X_* FLOATING EAR *_*
PierrotSAMBACrystal 8 months ago
I dont wanna sleep with the lights of anymore after this
cortem762 8 months ago
lmao this video is a trip.
MoncefFaik 8 months ago
@floydhead1491 boop!
MrCdubs 8 months ago
now this is the art
HOLYCC 9 months ago
this shit scares me
lauralikes 9 months ago
Why are some of you so afraid of music? Not to mention, how can you not like this? It's beautiful :)
FZmustacheFZ 9 months ago
wft
bcoco85 9 months ago
Also worth pointing out that Varese was the first musician to sample another musician in his music. Pretty cool.
OnlySeanJohn 11 months ago
@OnlySeanJohn Sure that wasnt Pierre Schaeffer? He seems to be the guy that kick started all this.
sonicalsonics 10 months ago
@sonicalsonics Nahh this is definitely Edgar, but Pierre pretty much did start all of this.
TheFrost3ite 10 months ago
@sonicalsonics Nahh this is definitely Edgar, but Pierre pretty much did start all of this.
TheFrost3ite 10 months ago
@TheFrost3ite I meant that I thought Pierre was the first to do sampling. Anyway, great video :)
sonicalsonics 10 months ago
Someone should auto-tune this.
OnlySeanJohn 11 months ago
i heard miley cyrus is covering this on her next album
jgil1967 1 year ago 52
@jgil1967 She would just be copying Eminem, who used already used this as as a backing track on his battle with Lil' Wayne.
mrpankau 10 months ago
@jgil1967 I'm confused by your reasoning. Miley Cyrus plays bad music..
FZmustacheFZ 9 months ago
@FZmustacheFZ Wait are you serious?
floydhead1491 9 months ago
@floydhead1491 Serious about what? My implication that this is good, or my statement that Miley Cyrus is bad? I'm very serious, about both.
FZmustacheFZ 9 months ago
@FZmustacheFZ relax bro
floydhead1491 9 months ago
@floydhead1491 I'm very relaxed. It's unfortunate that you have the mental capacity of a gold fish, but whatever. Your problem, not mine.
FZmustacheFZ 9 months ago
@FZmustacheFZ you must not be very liked. most creepy fucks with mustaches arent ;)
floydhead1491 9 months ago
@floydhead1491 a) I have no mustache b) I don't understand your reasoning. I like good music, therefore I'm a creepy fuck? c) If you don't like the music, just leave. Allow people, like me, who actually enjoy it the freedom to listen to it without being annoyed with rude comments. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean you should show disrespect towards it..
FZmustacheFZ 9 months ago
@FZmustacheFZ dude, i said relax, you little bitch
floydhead1491 8 months ago
@floydhead1491 little bitch? a) male; b) 32. hardly qualifies as little..
FZmustacheFZ 8 months ago
@FZmustacheFZ a) your still a bitch c) i dont care about your old saggy ass. ps. your a bitch
floydhead1491 8 months ago
@FZmustacheFZ a) your still a bitch b) i dont care about your old saggy ass p.s. your still a bitch
floydhead1491 8 months ago
@floydhead1491 a) you're my bitch until you learn to spell "you're" correctly, and b) learn some respect, you little shit.
FZmustacheFZ 8 months ago
@FZmustacheFZ a) are you the fuckin grammar police? b) im not your bitch, you little cunt
floydhead1491 8 months ago
@floydhead1491 nah, I'm not the grammar police, I'm the fucking grammar dictator, bitch. I'll bet you're from the south. You show off that kind of ignorance.
FZmustacheFZ 8 months ago
@FZmustacheFZ You should always start a new sentence with a capital. Not "nah" but Nah". Hahahahaha anyway...
fablan6 8 months ago 2
@fablan6 Hahahaha. Touche. Oh, and the irony of that, what with the sentence's statement and all. Ahhh..
FZmustacheFZ 8 months ago
@FZmustacheFZ I don't know, I just felt like commenting on something random.
fablan6 8 months ago
@FZmustacheFZ so not only are you an aging nerd, you also like to stereotype. you care that much about spelling? scuk my dcik you wrtohlses pceie of shit. ;)
floydhead1491 8 months ago
@floydhead1491 How do you come up with nerd? I'm genuinely interested. And yeah, I do stereotype. It's quicker. Not to mention that that's really not even that much of a stereotype.
FZmustacheFZ 8 months ago
@floydhead1491 may i reiterate: relax. you pretentious beyond belief
floydhead1491 9 months ago
I feel like I'm trippin' ballz with Stanley Kubrick.
DevoutPatriot 1 year ago 3
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Bunomous 1 year ago
@Bunomous
Look up Poème électronique on Wikipedia. An excerpt from the article:
Varèse designed a very complex spatialization scheme which was synchronized to the film. Prefiguring the acousmonium style of sound projection, hundreds of speakers were controlled by sound projectionists with a series of rotary telephone dials. Each dial could turn on five speakers at a time out of a bank of 12. Many estimates of the pavilion's sound system go as high as 450 speakers.
ORUPRANKSTAZ 1 year ago
pubes 6:03
fuddyboi 1 year ago
i hear the bell a calling"
sonicjay007 1 year ago
Dolphinbrain, thank you for posting this. I had the LP years ago and moving around, it went the way of all things. I was delighted to hear this wonderful and refreshing work! For you young 'uns out there, you've no idea how painstaking it was to create a piece of music like this. Add to that, it says something about the enormous creatvity and plasticity of mind of Varese, that, so late in his career he was still at the cutting edge of music tech (as it was in 1958). Thanks again!
OutlandsCommunity 1 year ago
totally agree with rafigno, but taste is like asshole... pe ruanos filhos da puta
chelasso123 1 year ago
totally agree with rafigno, but taste is like asshole
chelasso123 1 year ago
I'm sorry, what?
reallybigshoe39 1 year ago
don't watch this video if ur really tired or sleep deprived O_o
aelishaful 1 year ago
Varese was actually arguing for the point that any sort of sound or silence can be considered music depending on the artist or listener. You may hate this music, but that's just the point Varese was trying to make. You may not like it, but others do.
ohhbaby009 1 year ago
well im officially scared shitless. creepiest video out there, congrats varese!
TheTheDoorman 1 year ago
Oh my god damn. I be studying this in music. I love how I come here and everybodys got something to argue about. It's all very entertaining but in all honestly this is a whole other thing. If anything we should be discussing what the fuck this means. Does anybody know what the fuck this means? I sure as hell don't. It's interesting but I really am clueless. How about we at least discuss and argue that one.
RT04290 1 year ago
@RT04290
Nothing. Done.
Cubelarooso 8 months ago
am i the only one who thinks this is a little creepy? im not trolling, just bing honest
TheMonaRezvani 1 year ago
@TheMonaRezvani I FEEL THE SAME. IT IS A LIL CREEPY! HEHE
HaLfM00nX123 1 year ago
Does this remind anyone else of the soundtrack to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
blakiecakes419 1 year ago 2
well that was unnerving....
jmbenny56 1 year ago
and this was commissioned for a sound-and-light show???huh???
icesar09 1 year ago
ow, my ears.
r0bz0rly 1 year ago
Is this the same film used in the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair?
eatsandsleeps 1 year ago
I don't take drugs, so am unable to relate to the comments of those who do, but as to wether or not Varese's 'Poeme' goes hand-in-hand with them I can't say. Frankly, the work goes down rather well after the second Martini [6-parts Bombay Sapphire Gin, 1 part Noilly Prat vermouth, 1 sliver of quarter-inch magnetic tape]. Cheers!
jslasher1 1 year ago
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antiqueseas 1 year ago
I don't know why, but this scares the fuck out of me. I love it, but damn, dude. It gives me the heeby-geeebies.
antiqueseas 1 year ago
This is not good
JellyRaptor 1 year ago
Pretty sure this is gonna give me nightmares
rainuhface09 1 year ago
One of my friends had to research this video and analyse it...
He never was the same... ever...
1337grenade 1 year ago 43
@1337grenade I can see why... This is terrifying!
jaitonbini 1 year ago
@1337grenade I can see why... This is terrifying!
jaitonbini 1 year ago
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@1337grenade I can see why... This is terrifying!
jaitonbini 1 year ago
@1337grenade I'm studying this for my exam. FML.
icemansammie 9 months ago
Irreductible
Ramonesoy 1 year ago
my brain is now f*cked up :)
fuuckthename 1 year ago
I LOVE it.
Hadewijch 1 year ago
I would respect Varese and Le Corbusier even more if they had taken acid to do this... so beautiful...
spoqbods 1 year ago
@spoqbods
You're such a fake little fuck lol
OwrKeeng 1 year ago
@OwrKeeng
Fake how? What I meant is that I have done acid and things do not get easier to do... well... sometimes they do but in general... anyways I was high when I wrote it.
spoqbods 1 year ago
I understand the difficulty he had recording and editing this, but this shit is wierd as hell lol
HershproductionZ 1 year ago
This video is a cross between a bad trip, the video from the ring, and the Monty Python animations.
LopanTheLemming 1 year ago
I'm high as a kite right now, and this video is so trippy
xxelwinnioxx 1 year ago
ERASERHEAD? Im lLooking for you! Brazil, 27.
AriAvery 1 year ago
@Timelander4d Youtube doesn't do the piece justice, it's intended to be listened to with a complex audio setup. The original presentation at the World Fair involved 350 speakers, and was quite a feat of audio engineering for its time.
ifeeltiredsleepy 1 year ago
@ifeeltiredsleepy I agree with that the piece itself almost seems like its more of a preformance art piece than a piece of music alone, and the presentation was definatly part of the preformance.
sfrenchhorn07 1 year ago
das schein wie einstürzende Neubautens Werke, nur minimal - geil!!!
Schutzraumtechnik999 1 year ago
@Schutzraumtechnik999 *scheint*
Schutzraumtechnik999 1 year ago
Folks seem to have mixed-up two different questions here: This is obviously music, very influential and ground-breaking music I might add, but this doesn't automatically mean it's good. I might not agree with all the works of Picasso, for example, but claiming that he didn't produce paintings is just plain ridiculous. As to whether this piece is "good", I personally think this format is very limiting: it was made as part of an installation. Guernica isn't very impressive as a JPG either.
Metamusik 1 year ago
call me ignorant but this is just noise.
DrMadvillain 1 year ago
@DrMadvillain This is not noise. This is Edgar Varese.
sexymarylin 1 year ago
@sexymarylin i'm familiar with Edgard* thanks, i'm a music student. I just don't like this "song" or poem.
DrMadvillain 1 year ago
@DrMadvillain
isnt everyone a student of music?
hanstime 1 year ago
@DrMadvillain IGNORANT
IKNOWIT0713 1 year ago
. . . giygas . . . . . . is that you . . . ?
Intrafacial86 1 year ago
that´s the original video? can someone tell me where do these images com from?
arias0clara 1 year ago
@arias0clara this is not an "original video". whereas Varése did not add video to his works in 1958.
fussbudget 1 year ago
@arias0clara This is not the original video. The original was B/W images relating to different aspects of human life played within the interior of the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World Fair of 1958.
fussbudget 1 year ago
Not to sound ignorant at all cause I really don't want to seem that way at all. I don't fully understand how this is music? Can someone explain it to me? Maybe I'm just not understanding this correctly lol can someone explain it to me?
oneriver101 1 year ago
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fussbudget 1 year ago
@oneriver101 "Music is anything one listens to with the intent of listening to music"- Luciano Berio
fussbudget 1 year ago
@oneriver101 The classic modern definition of music is "organized sound", reputedly coined by Edgard Varèse, one of the composers of what you just heard. This particular piece obviously fits that definition with ease. The definition can actually be used to categorize far more than you might think at first. Like Cage's classic "3:44", where the only thing truly organized is the time... or even completely random, everyday sound where the organizer is the listener who choose what to focus on.
Metamusik 1 year ago
i would love to hear this in the 400 surrounding speaker format they had back when this first came out
xXxMusicAngelxXx1 1 year ago
@hgchjk That's what she said.
I'm sorry; I couldn't resist.
[which, coincidentally, is also...]
fiddlercrab3 1 year ago
I just wanna know if there's anywhere i could see a good photo of the philips pavillion in it's heyday... INSIDE AND OUT! or at least a good recreation. and was it just under 400 speakers in surround sound or just over?
sixstringslasher 1 year ago
My favorite part is 5:00-6:00. I like to call it "the whales"
FiddleRockStar 1 year ago
This is complete shit. I'm sorry but randomly composed sounds is not music. The only people that claim to enjoy this are snooty cunts that pose as "intellectuals".
TrollSturm 1 year ago
fuck you,.....
does this sound intellectual to you,....
and i for sure enjoy this song,.....
u r a dumbass that think that everyone in the world is the same,...grow up for god's sake,....
mijanvar 1 year ago
redneck detected.
velisaar 1 year ago
@TrollSturm what is music?
ColtonBrook 1 year ago
compared to modern genres, it's more like noise-music than electronic :D
cantgetme92 1 year ago
amazing video, really adds to the piece!
kosmischesynth 1 year ago
The music is better without the visual added by Le Corbusier. These images have no conceptual point with the piece by varese. By instance he has a bullfighter as it starts; the idea of Le Corbu bullfighting is plain pathetic and ridiculous. He should have sticked to building his thing. However this piece by Varese adventured a sight beyond his time.
EdVanCertes 2 years ago
Thats not what Varese thought.
TheImpressionable 1 year ago
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what kind of bull*****t is this??????????? the maker and all the people that like it SHOULD DIE!!!!!!!!!
louboulos 2 years ago
i suggest you read about concrete music before being so judgemental, i do agree most concrete music is not "pretty" but it has its historical weight you shouldnt just ignore, that is if you are into electronic music at all, if not, well then i think id understand the empty words you just typed here :)
TheDadsr 2 years ago
rudi is going to do it!
dogstevens 2 years ago
intro translated:
1kooldood 2 years ago
Philips has designed an automatic device, one that heralds new art with unlimited possibilities, namely the electronic interplay of light, color, image, word and music in the room.
1kooldood 2 years ago
The 'electronic poem "curated by Le Corbusier, Xenakis and his assistant Yean musician Edgard Varese, shows how our increasingly mechanized civilization strives for a new future harmony.
The show consists of the following parts:
creation
mind and matter
from darkness to dawn
gods created by man
thus forging the time civilization
harmony
and all mankind
1kooldood 2 years ago
I had to watch this in my music class...friggin weird. That's all I have to say.
TheCuhlet 2 years ago
us too.
nitroglyceran 2 years ago
Wow this song is probably the best song I HAVE EVER HEARD! If only music was like this today so that I might have committed suicide to it already.
LONG LIVE CWATS not cwates
Syrionn 2 years ago
Excuse me, but who made this video? I'm just wandering if it's officially linked to the song or if someone made it under the influence of it.
Samuhel25mb 2 years ago
People were meant to hear it as they walked through phillips pavilion at brussel's world fair in 1958..so this video may not have any official connection per se
karina1510 2 years ago
An addition to my earlier comment- yes this is official..the music is by varese but the visual conception is by Corbusier
karina1510 2 years ago
thanks :)
Samuhel25mb 2 years ago
this is an acid trip. an electronic acid trip.
SkaCaptain 2 years ago
Varese came before Stockhausen by about 45 years and nobody was doing this stuff before him. No Varese means no Stockhausen. I doubt Karlheinz himself would have considered 'the father of electronic music' an "under-Stockhausen".
nonthere 2 years ago
who made this incredible video?
the music is awesome enough, and then the video takes it way over the top!
oceanbobcat 2 years ago
This was an exhibit at the Brussels World Fair of 1958. I think it was one of the first multimedia presentations. People walked throught the exhibit and the images were flashed on the walls while the music played. Way better than sitting looking at a computer screen.
nonthere 2 years ago
Through 425 loudspeakers playing the music in different intervals... :)
ORUPRANKSTAZ 2 years ago