Ligeti Atmospheres

[abstractcollector2]

vivendi

[piper102206]

I don't think it is, but would it be possible to play this on a keyboard instrument?

[cReepLeZz]

@piper102206 as long as you're not asian, no sorry dude.

[piper102206]

This is problably the best version of this song out there...

[capthook1]

I'm all about this piece! Wonderful and exciting.

[didgig]

The film was made with iAnalyse by Pierre Couprie (I use the free version). Google it/them on the web. Thanks!

[adamkesher825]

This is excellently done, what program did you use? I'm doing a masters in music and need to carry out a similar analysis

[xtfcr7]

And I'm trying to follow the score...

[videocheckerify]

Impressive! It is the first time I listen to this composition and I'm chocked! It's amazing!

[Ghoopty]

I normally don't care for classical music, but THIS is awesome.

[BlueCougar]

1:39 - 2:20: the Universe is born.

[maegamikirisugi]

何か出てきそうで怖いよ～　

[IronCellist]

Wow.

[rufusino47]

Great Ligeti!!!

[AzAzCLASSIC93]

WOW This music is great, I love Ligeti.

from second 5:10 to second 5:24. The strings sounds like many flies toogether.

[TheVodKanockers]

i just don,t understand this. Remind me at "alien" soundtrack. Actually alien is similar to this one.

[aperisimo]

@TheVodKanockers

Yes, this it might resemble that score but, Jerry Goldsmith is another world of composition, Ligeti is like the heavy metal of classical and Goldmisth was more like Sinatra or somethin'.

[TheVodKanockers]

@aperisimo interesting comparing.

[eotto2001]

Thanks for the post. This is really a beautiful piece of music. Thanks for posting it the way you do.

[BeauJames59]

Breathtaking....

[FilmRomMusDrawingWar]

Heard only Poker face but didn't analyze. Love B. Zander & idea that everybody has it in himself. Beautiful idealism. And good conductor. Imagine that everybody is moved by Mahler and ''serious'' music. Does it make them better, are we all good people? No. We are vain, malicious, envious... Don't care for elitism but for guts.

[fanny0820]

graphismes intéressants .... atonalités surprenantes ....la Musique "écriture" aprés avoir été langage ....ou avant d'avoir été langage ??

au fait ... comprise??

par quel langage ??

je préfère ligeti en harmonie.

[Silks]

Just awesome

[jdbrown371]

I've seen the score to this piece and it is amazing. The tremolo effects are unreal, a single instrument like violin suddenly divides into over a dozen different parts each doing its own thing. Every thing is precisely notated and surprisingly original. The above "visualization score" is nice but absolutely not the same as the actual score.

[Ultraman725]

An owl is hunting a mouse When the owl strikes, it rolls way without harm into a hole There, it meets an earthworm Said earthworm starts to wrap itself around it similar to s anke, but stops sudenly, warning it of another threat A large snake then appears The mouse claws and scratches, fighting for dear life, but is eaten A day later, it is a wandering spirit Itmeets the earthworm that warned him of the snake He bumps him into a spike, severing it's soul from it There was far more. Deep

[xXxLadyGagaFanxXx2]

ämmm.........???

[csabaimate]

@xXxLadyGagaFanxXx2

I see you can't understand. Ligeti said it's a part of a long "endless" music.

It gives the feeling of endlessness.

Stanley Kubrick used it in SpaceOdussey, and Ligeti after said he never thought of space but it's good for it.

It s an other world than Lady Gaga.

[xXxLadyGagaFanxXx2]

Deutsch bitte!

[Wanterwollef]

Ich sehe du verstehst nicht. Ligeti erklärte, dass dies ein Teil einer langen "unendlichen" Musik ist.

Stanley Kubrick hat es in Space Odyssey benutzt. Ligeti hat später gesagt er hätte dabei nicht an den Weltraum gedacht, würde trotzdem gut auf den Film passen.

Es ist eben eine andere Welt als Lady Gaga.

[xXxLadyGagaFanxXx2]

wie du meinst^^ auf jeden fall is die lady gaga welt besser! xD

[AnAmericanComposer]

@xXxLadyGagaFanxXx2 I have no idea what you're saying, but it seems like you're putting down Ligeti, and that is JUST UNACCEPTABLE!

[Erbser]

@AnAmericanComposer He says: Lady Gaga is some worlds better. But he is just babbeling...

[Erbser]

@xXxLadyGagaFanxXx2 Lady gaga is scheiße. Basta.

[AnAmericanComposer]

@Erbser hahaha that's a good one lol *raises hand for high five*

[Erbser]

@AnAmericanComposer *high five*

[filumar]

genial avec le film 2001

[Bassinyoface1]

What is that sound at 7:15? It sounds like the whole orchestra just breathing

[didgig]

At this time Ligeti introduces some breath effects for trombones and kind of "rasping" (?) effects on piano's strings. Also, note this is a public recording that have some amount of background noise.

[CreepInDMoll]

sorta like the tardis sounds from the old series with the keys on piano strings?

[BlueCougar]

@CreepInDMoll They use brushes on a piano here, actually. Not a single piano key is touched in this piece. The pedal is weighed down and only the strings are... brushed.

[CreepInDMoll]

@BlueCougar

i know thank you i meant car keys were used to scrape on the strings with. we have been doing lots of such things lately in the consi.

[skenne8]

That wind/breath sound is someone quickly strumming many piano strings, from inside the piano. I saw a performance in Chicago a few years back.

[Gordos404]

nice job, the visualisation. Still , I don't have quite the access to this cluster music yet...i listen to it as a feeling person, not an analysing person.

[shubus]

It is interesting to compare Ligeti to Pendercki: Many of Penderecki's early scores actually resemble this graphic notation, while Ligeti has a separate staff for every instrument--not just every orchestral section. In the score you can clearly see the micro-polophony. We owe the popularity of this score to 2001: A Space Odessey. Ligeti has gained legions of new fans with his etudes for piano.

[huzzzzzzahh]

@shubus its really interesting to compare ligeti to chopin haha

[hollyhung]

such a beautiful work. this one really allows me to understand the mans other work alot better.

keep em comin.

[beginiss]

How in the world was orchestra able to do 7:14?

[80aless]

maybe playing the strings with the bow after the bridge or something like that

[Pantarei]

@beginiss The strings are playing "col legno", that's playing with the wood part of the bow, without using the hair of the bow. Doesn't it sound nice? Hehe

[dzpisx]

???IDK man Sounds amazing tho

[bongfodder]

A life of mind.

[bitachar]

Thanks for showing this analyses on youtube. Very good reading score. A pity that we couldn't see more details and data of the score at the end of the piece.

[murcianika87]

I love it...it´s brilliant

[dominickkk5]

4:21

Ooh, when that deep bass comes in. Almost makes the soul jump! Very eerie, beautiful music!

[door2yourheart]

Fantastic piece! My vid of this had audio content removed by Warner Music Group!

[Sukyhoi]

absolutely thrilled

[lovesGenet]

This man is amazing. the orchestral ,piano ,vocal stuff and the cello music . After Messiaen he is my favorite.sessons and Carter amaze too.Corigliano 's music sounds like upper middle classpeople talking today.His violin sonata is gorgeous .Would like to hear Birtwhistle and wuorinen 3pf conceri/.

[wally5353]

I've never seen the score - is that Ligeti's notation?

[capnpayne]

no. ligeti actually wrote individual parts for each member of the orchestra (the scores are giant)

this is someone else's graphic portrayal/waveform

[Ibunshi]

SWEEET

[jerrygollay]

Who's conducts ???Thank You !!!

[UVULASARDIENTES]

Claudio Abbado , Wiener Philharmoniker.

[julywapo]

AWESOME 5/5

[afthefragile]

4:19 my ears!!!!!!

[julywapo]

awesome

[twogluon]

I love the crescendo that starts around 1:50

[Darksidefarmers]

Increadible

[Blastd00r]

BCTDOH, you're an ignorant dickhead.

[audiobuttmaster]

Good point.

[failingimmortality]

what does BCTDOH an acronym?

[MrFerm]

I have analyzed Ligetis chamber Concerto and Atmospheres many times, and damn its complex! It takes a long time to understand. Really beautiful music!

[Pantarei]

@MrFerm Oh, c'mon, Atmospheres isn't "that" complex. We're not talking about mathematical or serial music. Ligeti uses very simple processes, like canons, but with such a great effect.

[Andymayell]

Atmospheres is intensely complex because it experiments with the orceshtral use of timbre. An area which needs to be explored further still...

[popol321]

well, ligeti explained that tried to reproduce spectral cmoplexity observed in electronic settings by writing parts that, due to foreseen errors in execution, will create unheard sounds that are close to white noise.

[MilkCandyFarm]

Fucking great... ambient with an orcastera, legeti is legend

[Alu10000]

WOW

[darthdidious]

that was cool

[quintopia]

Hollywood Bowl Orchestra?

[sciprio]

What does represent the geometric figures, in the american key escale,up there?

[frolll]

This really is the largest cluster chord ever written. thanks Ligeti

[doctorgsja]

The biggest cluster chord ever written?

[usmh]

Explain "cluster chord", please.

[nickad101]

It's a collection of 3 or more notes that are close to each other, i.e. a cluster chord might contain the notes B, C, and C#. It would be rather dissonant, but it would still be a cluster chord.

[mightyafrowhitey]

@doctorgsja yes it was

[egapnala65]

Fascinating.