Atmospheres-Gyorgy Ligeti

[afroditoz]

Música para enamorarse.

[dokterdroxy]

superb, gives me the creapes, but with undefnable expertise

[MaybeLasting]

that was sexual...

[Lordofthepastries]

At one point, I had a similar vision, but mine was a line of tanks passing through a street on a rainy black night

[Carnifex11100]

whenever i hear this it makes a vision in my head that im walking on a street and there alot of cars passing by.. am i the only one?

[JohnRSamples]

I think Atmospheres obeys the ideal gas law.

[ThePipoca77]

listening to this while reading creepypasta, oh god i feel so bad right now! :(

[rewq92384]

This makes my brain confused... and that's why I like it!

[GrasImOhr]

@herrmann90 can you please tell me who played this and who was the conductor? thank you lots!

[Jasperonomium]

man, it sounds like waking up sleeping ghosts who try to crawl up into your bed!

[Steinwaytoday]

*searches for codyahernek's comment*

[soundtracker94]

another genious hungarian composer!:D:D thanks!:D

[Obulus]

what a strong music!

[FolkMetalPiper]

this was an awesome experience

[piper102206]

I listened to this song in the middle of the night, and I had an almost spiritual experience, that I cound never replicate again...

[JustBme87]

@ndorso you only speak of things you're too afraid to see worthy, we hear the soothing genuis of Ligeti works which we keep ourselves open too. If you don't understand it simply keep your opinions to yourself.

[TheKeenanBoy]

All of it was pretty scary.

[TheKeenanBoy]

1:45 scared me



[TheKeenanBoy]

@TheKeenanBoy

Correction, 1:35 .

Honestly, think before you post.

[PierFrancescMicciche]

Ligeti found a second language into the language of music

[christopher19894]

Kubrick made a FAB music video with this in '2001' haha. But seriously, Ligeti has opened the door to a whole new way to look at music in the 21st century. Out of all the obscure classically oriented composers, he is one of the only ones, in my opinion, to actually produce a unique, recognizable voice with his music. Without the tonal distinction of themes, melodies or harmonies, that's nearly impossible to do.

[Pianista061292]

10 people can't understand Ligeti....

[Ajapam34]

Even if you can't appreciate this as it is, it's impossible to claim it isn't great material for movies.

[smokeybear69]

Unreal, Ligeti was something special. 387 people I'd like to have a drink with!

[anaemiabag]

i usually listen to black metal, crust punk, gothic rock, and everything else that i cant be bothered listing.... but i think this is fucking great.

[GenerationXeroFilms]

If you like this piece, you will enjoy "Henry Plainview" By Jonny Greenwood

[frostvortex04]

This is incredible, it completely throws you into the middle of a sci-fi nightmare

[thisisspinaltap]

i saw the NY phil's dress rehearsal of his piano concerto and older folk were getting up and leaving during it. why can't people appreciate music for being music?

[lloydguillaumegroup]

Aphorism: Disjunction, immediacy, mediation finite things blank on both sides, the columns of becoming, being and essence. The independent knowledge lies in as absolute knowledge and doing.

LLCY © 2011

[eyreland]

I have seen the actual orchestration for this, and its information theory natures that Ligiti was going for can be clearly seen.

Nevertheless, no other person has composed anything like this since -- so it is unique save for some similarities to Apparitions.

[mdkarasmusic]

@eyreland Penderecki's "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" is a piece written in a similar style (atonal sound mass).

[notobehacked]

BORING PIECE OF POO



[ericmsandoval]

@notobehacked <-------reason they shouldn't allow 8 year olds on Youtube.

[powergirl901]

I like conceptual things, and this works viscerally of course, yet it also pre-thought very carefully about who is playing and why. But if you think further, music itself is just sound arbitrarily divided into 12 tones, which is a concept overlay onto the vastness of all phenomenon.

[MikeFreakinByrne]

i absolutely must see a score for this

[BlueCougar]

@MikeFreakinByrne It's about five times as high as it is wide, and has I think up to 80 staves per page...

[FonteOriental]

Some recent scientific studies about the therapeutic effects of music, sustain that this particularly music, can substantially reduce tumor cells. The same effect occur with the Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony.

[ChrisdB808]

Truly mesmerizing, in the darkest way possible. There is such a sinister malice in this piece, submerged beneath the surface of the murky chord clusters, that only slightly ripples the surface and deliberately does not present itself, yet in the back of your mind, you know it's there, lurking.

I can only imagine what the score looks like! How would this even be conducted?

[BlueCougar]

@ChrisdB808 "How would this even be conducted?"

In 4/4. I'm serious.

[MikeFreakinByrne]

starting at about 6:40, is that a wind machine?

[Bagas]

@MuseDuCafe how is this piece tonal?

[bill291212]

this music scares me

[Pharsus]

My God, it's full of stars!

[raiu0009]

Does anyone know how the "sea-foam" sound was accomplished starting at around 8:06?

[Jazzguitar00]

@raiu0009 At the end of the piece, the strings are bowing lightly on the other side of the bridge (so no note is being produced, just a gentle scrape) and the brass are blowing through their instruments without pursing their lips (no actually pitch, just a whispy sound).

Brilliant orchestration.

[yhciul]

20 years later after I listened to it for the first time I find this music intriguing and even interesting. I'm a musician and I'm not crazy.

[ndoroso]

Only crazy people #$%&¨(*)&¨%$#@ 

[ndoroso]

Only crazy people like this !

[arteodeeto]

Obviously an inspiration for Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother.

[FQBeast]

Beautiful, haunting, but never the less beautiful.

[caluvdarrell]

wow that scares, is the first song I actually had fear

[Bitteulze]

@caluvdarrell You should listen to Iannis Xenakis's music (especially "Metastaseis") and dark ambient music, Lustmord for exemple.

[lemoscouple]

piece of crap.

[priMMoz]

@lemoscouple enjoy your justin bieber

[Bagas]

@lemoscouple fuck your mother please

[ndoroso]

@Bagas Bagas, that was the best answer . It's not a song or music, it's "shit".

[codyahernek]

ingredients for writhing like ligeti.

1. piano

2. 5 year old

3. tape recorder

[Windkind0]

@codyahernek Ingredients for writing like you:

1. 5 year old

2. booze

3. Computah!

[codyahernek]

@Windkind0 hahahah i dont drink i'm like 12.

[thrunningkid]

99.000 wie gut ich bin:D

[BeethovenDroog]

Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind if going.

[Kidnasium]

you should also take a look at its score

:O

[petezilla]

My favorite composer after Stravinsky.

[TheDavid2222]

Ligeti has made a serious fan today!!

[ParkourIstMeinLeben]

just close ur eyes and let ur senses flow!

AWESOME!

[klyst6666]

Dell'aspetto morale non ne tengo conto. Tra l'altro anche Wagner è stato accusato a suo tempo di essere un invasato satanico (anche da Puccini).

[klyst6666]

Li conosco. Comunque scusami, sono stato cafone. e' che a me Ligeti piace molto.

[dop216]

@klyst6666

no, no assolutamente, non è nemmeno musica, rifletti bene ascolta Bach, Mozart e nota la differenza sotto l'aspetto estetico, costruttivo, morale.

[FrenchExpat1]

This is so powerful, an expression of human pain, suffering and the unknown......a fantastic piece of work.

[dop216]

che schifo!

[klyst6666]

@dop216 Prova con la sigla dei puffi, dovrebbe essere al tuo livello.

[dop216]

@klyst6666

apri bene le orecchie cretino ignorante che non sei altro, non senti che merda di musica? Meglio la sigla dei Puffi certo e istruisciti ascoltando musica, non stronzate del genere! Tutti quelli come te che sono affascinati da quest'arte degenerata sono pronti per il manicomio!

[klyst6666]

@dop216 Solo che arte degenerata è un termine caro a gente come Hitler e Stalin. Io ho centinaia di cd di musica classica, da Bach a Mahler e oltre, non sono proprio ignorante. E questa è ottima musica. Se non piace non si ascolta.

[dop216]

@klyst6666

già che siamo in argomento ti voglio aiutare a farti conoscere qualcosa dai, mi dispiace, sei troppo ridotto male. Ad. esempio ascolta uno dei tanti concerti per pianoforte di Mozart, uno qualunque e poi vedrai se cambierai idea.

[napoleoneterzo]

This is the Ligeti that I love

[AikiNickAMV]

What a magnificent composition! Usually upon listening to music, I fancy myself moving forward. In this piece I would much rather suggest the motion is directed upwards, as if something built. Sounds are bricks of this building. Stunning composition. Of course, it stands in no comparison with Justin Bieber though....

[ronzabeel]

It's out of this world!!!!!!!!!!!

[robertwbecker]

A Masterpiece, by this wonderfully eccentric, as least to me, composer! Great stuff!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for the post!!!!

[pylgrym]

Carl Denham? Weren't you the beauty who killed the beast?

[gonrolgonrol]

Wonderful!

[drqster]

love this piece

[neolithicmembrane]

beautifully distrubing.

[0180917]

I keep seeing all those colors shooting past me and still shots of Dave's face when I hear this...

[MrMotastic]

The fles are coming.

4:35.

[spikemansss]

You need head phones for this

[RemovdSande11]

Ligeti is the father of sound design as we know it today, an innovator.

[tf2whackyengineer]

3:35 That's what my middle school music class sounded like when we got our recorders.

[jyotishkoray]

This is the scariest piece of music ever written. The sheer terror and power of the piece is scary and alternately supremely magnificent.

[GentleGinjeet]

@jyotishkoray listen to "Threnody to The Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki" and reconsider your statement.

[jyotishkoray]

@GentleGinjeet Oh my! That is rather terrifying. Thank you for the suggestion

[GentleGinjeet]

@jyotishkoray let's go deeper! search for this: Nazgul - 02 - The Dead Marshes. :)

[mordent17]

Hey by chance does anyone know about a sound mass piece that is actually consonant? I don't get why ontemporaries want to get distant from consonancy...

[tyrelroo]

@mordent17 I argue that "consonance" is relative so far as the listener is concerned. For instance, I find 1:50 to 2:05 very warm, calming, and not in any way indicative of the unsettling quality that one typically associated with dissonance. Olivier Messiaen does this, as well, filling his music with what, on paper, should be ear-splittingly harsh, but which actually turns out to be glorious.

[steshystesh]

too much vocals

[pvdgomes]

@steshystesh You sound like the emperor in 'Amadeus' to Mozart: "Too many notes." ;-)

[steshystesh]

@pvdgomes It was a joke by the way because as far as I recall this song there are no vocals :D

[SuperStuff01]

A couple of years ago it was completely unimaginable to me that anyone could *actually* enjoy something like this. I just assumed that the people who said they liked it were being elitist, or that they only liked it in an intellectual, thought-experiment kind of way. Now I totally love this piece though! I listen to it in much the same way that I listen to something like Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.

[dchiapello]

@SuperStuff01 Leo Tolstoy wrote an essay insisting that people who expressed their love for Beethoven's late string quartets were just trying to be fashionable, because he thought they were so obviously lacking in musical worth. What a reactionary!

[jdbrown371]

@SuperStuff01 I went through the same sort of process. I didn't like Debussy even at first so that gives you an idea of how close minded I could be. In time, thankfully I opened up and still have so much to learn and appreciate. Ligeti is right up there with the other great composers. Atmospheres and Lontano are my favourites. His etudes stand well next to Debussy's, are actually very playable and extend piano technique is highly original ways. Just too good for words.

[MikeFreakinByrne]

@SuperStuff01

i mean it's cool, and i definitely enjoy it

but definitely not in the same way as debussy's afternoon of a faun. not even close to the same way lol

[principessafavilla85]

@SuperStuff01 right ;)

[jdbrown371]

@SuperStuff01 I went through a similar process. Now I'm getting into Stockhausen.

[ankoripasta]

@SuperStuff01 Welcome to the club.

[ankoripasta]

@SuperStuff01 And by that I mean you can appreciate for what it does: not be a conventional piece of music but set an extremely strong atmosphere that you can get absorbed in. That's what atonal and atmospheric music does.

[r0ckzie]

kinda boring...

[schwarg]

Wait is from this the part when Dave Bowman transcends his human form?

[mobytoss]

1:50 onwards is just amazing

[TheJonnyEnglish]

Beautiful song

[kugelschreiber09]

Györgyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!

[cinnawaffls]

At 3:27, that scared the livings out of me.

[BagelBites48]

The brass at 2:00 send chills down my spine.

[mrrtsno]

i hav a monolith, like in the film, on my wall. actually its my 46in lcd.

[maffew9194]

@mrrtsno lol

[Godgui2]

@mrrtsno he he he! subtlety in the detail! i see that you well know the movie lad

[lifeson46]

this peice reminds me of the track Zeit by tangerine dream

[simonsmatthew]

Wow, what a piece! Thanks for this post.

[compositorraro]

Wonderful!!!, very, very, very good!!! I like very, very, very much this music. Fantastic, etc...

Bravo Ligeti!!!!

Thanks for sharing

[pitch89]

this sounds much like williams' " close encounters of the third kind" the part at 2:00 remind me when ( in the film) the tall alien open his arm

DELIGHTFUL

[lifeson46]

@pitch89 it was used in 2001 a space odyssey

[pitch89]

@lifeson46 i know, but if you listen to "close encounters " soundtrack you could easily recognize these sounds =)

[lifeson46]

@pitch89 yes. I suppose it gave John Williams some inspiration

[Kuralammikko]

Wow... this literally made me feel nauseous! I feel like I had been spinning too long! The piece was interesting, I almost liked it but it was still too weird...

[3dgilbert]

have the notes at home briliant cluster piece

[TheAnnePrevost]

I have to listen to this in Salzburg on Monday night during the OSTERFESTSPIELE! Oh dear!

[eatacay]

wow. Intense. How was this notated?

[frostizado]

@eatacay Believe it or not this entire piece is in 4/4! Ligeti was a master of time subdivisions (for every quarter in time he would subdivide notes into groups of 15, 11 etc. all superimposed giving the impression of accelerandos, ritardandos etc). This is also an almost full orchestral divisi giving each part different tonal shades (sul tasto, ponticello etc.) for textural effect. In my opinion Ligeti redifined the concept of music akin to what Arnold Schoenberg did in the early 20th century

[alreadywoundpie]

@frostizado yeah, well this particular piece isn't metrically organized, though--the 4/4 is just a convention to keep time.

[dideoxynucleotide]

@eatacay Very conventionally, actually. Same with most of his pieces. Some, like Lontano and Lux Aeterna, take advantage of a technique he invented called micropolyphony, in which you actually have instruments performing canons using fairly conventional modes (major, minor, etc) but shifting very slowly to create a kind of nebulous cloud of sound. But when you look at any one line, you can find an A minor scale here, and a lydian mode there. It's very ingenious.

[ScarfDogg]

My god this song scares the shit out of me.

But I love it,

[Dukeobelding]

@ScarfDogg Same here, whenever theirs a scene in 2001 a space Odyssey where it's just a black screen with this music playing I can't help but feel paranoid.

[ScarfDogg]

@Dukeobelding Goddamn, I hates those black screens. It always looked like there was some sort of image on it. SO CREEPY. :<

[pepijagarzekje]

@ScarfDogg Great for you. Except this is not a "song", rather an orchestral composition.

[carpathiandragon]

I love this theme, I downloaded it and one night when a lunar eclipse was happening, I just layed down on the grass and watched it go through its phases, and listened to this. It was epic.

[tonytrilex]

I dunno who you are but if you have a love for this music and nature, i would have loved to watch it with you

[NicolasSaenzGalvis]

@carpathiandragon man, where did you download this ?? i've looked everywhere but can't find it. Help !

[Herrmann90]

@NicolasSaenzGalvis Personally, I recommend buying the CD. Ligeti Project II, otherwise you can download from Amazon on the MP3 album "Clear or Cloudy"

[carpathiandragon]

Hm, I just got it on itunes >.>

[Ainigma]

@carpathiandragon i thought society went prosaic. wrong thought. cheers

[kiasmus]

Mr. Ligeti, thanks for creating such a work of genius. Mr. Kubrick, thanks for making it available to a wide audience through your film.

[DieFroschkekse]

It's so amazing !

[KSFranck]

Go straight to 3:33 to get an instant head ache. Irie!

[larryjohnny]

ohh, i feel it 3:33 just broke my good china.. lol..

[jovenmedia]

along w/ debussey the beginning of "ambient " music...

your welcome brian eno.

[dzpisx]

I have to listen to this once a day. It's so amazingly haunting.

[afrikanikoselefadas]

w8, they have to tune up first. hahaha

[georgecziffra]

0:01

[ranzeape]

good one :-)

[pitbull2005]

I enjoyed it, but not a patch on Aqua's

'Barbie Girl'

[oryandymackie95]

@pitbull2005

I know - Aqua truly saw the future. And it was plastic.

[mrrtsno]

@pitbull2005 careful now! (making crazy comparisons!)

[q6drum]

Thinks it's funny that the messy, spiky hairstyles were popular back then in Hungary. If you look at young pictures of Bartok (i.e. the one on Wikipedia), you'll notice him with a spiked haircut as well lol.

[rjr1967]

Then? What about now? I live in Hungary and it's much harder to find a good hairdresser than a good musician!

[kosmischesynth]

Its nice, but i'll have varese over this any day

[minivers]

Gustav Mahler Jugenorchester played this at London Proms Friday 7th Sept. I was there and this piece just blew me away.

[EineHutze]

This is great!!! I heard the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester play Atmosphères at the Grafenegg festival in Lower Austria one week before you (30th of August..which was a Sunday, so how could the 7th of Sept.have been a Friday?), and really, I thought the performance was astonishing... My boyfriend and I absolutely loved it.

[Waldvogel91]

Never thought droning had as much potential until I discovered Ligeti.

[dorfischer]

worship this sound. sound mass rules!

[DannyDaWriter]

Who is the man that appears at 2:53?

[DannyDaWriter]

Apparently that is Mr Ligeti himself. He lucks MUCH different from when he was younger...

[q6drum]

That is a much younger Ligeti. :)

[jonathanaconway]

The "atmospheres" this piece evokes are simply beyond words. Well matched to the "Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite" segment of 2001: A Space Odyssey

[sexmotor65]

The very composer of the future!