Pierre Boulez: ...explosant-fixe... (1/4)

[TheAimlessRoad]

Can anyone say "Entartete Kunst"?

[AyumuVanguard]

I expected to not like this at all, or at least not very much, but not really dislike it.

Man, I was wrong.

[Linkinvlad]

I am actually amazed by the quality of some of the comments. Also very much fascinated by the dialogue involving the main user of this video and the rest of the world. Don't know why. My mind is probably fucked up with too many explosive materials at the moment. I must listen to that piece.

It's just there was some kind of Mojo in this little part of the internet. God. I went ways too far. Sorry for that. Hope someone will feel like what I meant. And yes, I am french and my english still sucks

[miker2001]

Ooops, I meant, otherwise.

[miker2001]

I am sure he dedicated it to Stravinsky, and he passed away. Other, he would clanged him on the head.

Actually, it is one of the better pieces by Boulez, if that is possible.

[John11inch]

@dieterammann4

Damn. I was a bit honored to have you commenting on one of my submissions (as I've uploaded some of your work). A shame to see you've taken it down =P

[lovesGenet]

Boulez is -I wont use any post-humanist labels was not interested in identifiable melodies but lines intervals and motivic cells , timbres. The sounds and surprising melodies here are fabulous and one can actually remember sections and it gives one the sense of a narrative. Yes-finally it is accessible .He started out as a Webern lover and has his own style and voice. Messiaen orLeibowitz is no where to be heard if u ask me . I'd love to see it performed. The man has an ear for the groups.

[Bagas]

One of the peaks of Maestro Boulez. My favorite composer alongside Ligeti.

[ThePafuty]

Oh, sorry. Not immediately read the previous comments. All clear.

[ThePafuty]

The genius in all its glory!

It seems to me, or I actually hear a little "Rite of Spring"?

[FenderRhodesService]

Well , it is surely "Flooding" with Stravinskianisms all over the place , but I don't yet know wether it has the same Necessity of Igor for me .I like his Eclats-Multiples better. Out of curiosity and the good sound-quality I bought it anyway....for only €8,-.....

[marczi]

C64 data casette :D

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[avandras]

@marczi Látom, nagyon megszeretted az emelkedett poénodat...

[marczi]

@avandras Bocs, nemtudtam, hogy nem szabad. Mea culpa!

[dekkaka1]

Bullshit :(

[FenderRhodesService]

I googingly just found out that this was dedicated to Stravinsky....now I understand,

[FenderRhodesService]

And a bit of Requiem Canticle tubular bells mixed with that.

[FenderRhodesService]

Around 7:10 it reminded me a bit of the Flood flooding-effect of Stravinsky.

But I don't want to start hairsplitting , I think I could play this Boulez piece more than once.

[alexQuantizes]

YES! Finally something extremely interesting and (somewhat) accessible.

[Tic1971]

Sorcerer's Apprentice anyone ?

Pierre shame on you...



[John11inch]

Elaborate.

[Tic1971]

Well dear, John11inch (I hope that's the size of your feet ^^)

I might be found out digging myself into a hole here, but I heard apparent similarities in this piece to the one I mentioned in my remark..Don't go to hard on me ok, I like Rachmaninoff and Debussy so you might understand. (darn I am digging hehe)

Does this make sense? Well, even if not, let us just dwell in and about the fact that we are still in the realms of classical music and therefor have a major advantage over the X-Factorians

[John11inch]

What piece(s) by Rachmaninov and Debussy? How is this similar to the Dukas piece?

[brownerthanu]

@Tic1971 I invite you to look into the research of David Cope. You'll see very quickly that everyone, even the best, beg borrow and steal from their predecessors.

[Tic1971]

Dear brownerthanu ,

I've had a listen and read about him, thanks for the invitation. I seemed to note though that Copes' programs' 'music' appears somewhat random in style? Who did he himself copy?

[ekolke]

I dig it! GREAT! If you do not get it, sad for you!

[mrgdfthr]

Im not too familiar with this type of music. Which kind of genre is it?

[smyrnaballet]

Putin, ca nique sa mere un max cette musique... "Au depart je start Relevant le flambeau Dechainant les passion Avec la meme conviction Hardcore Que L'EIC incarne la loi du plus fort C'est clair, t'as le touche Pierre Boulez Ecoute un peu cette facon De faconner les sons Encore un fois le Patron de L'IRCAM Te fout une claque Petit rappeur C'est Clair tu as le touche Pierre Boulez (sur le rhythme, de "Le toucher Nique Ta Mere" des infames 93 Supremes NTM)

[Aserikoth]

too mainstream for my tastes

[John11inch]

@Aserikoth Looking through your favorites, that's a pretty hilarious comment.

[BachBachBachBachBach]

It's like a beast with Stravinsky's legs, Debussy's face, and Schoenberg's body.

[MusicaRicercata]

Schoendebuinsky

[MawrdewCzgowchwz]

I love everything about Boulez as conductor and composer and hope to have the opportunity to hear him conduct some of his music in 2010. In 40 years of concert and opera-going, I would say the three highlights of my life have been Boulez conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker in the Mahler 2nd (in Vienna) and 3rd (at Carnegie Hall) and "Parsifal" at Bayreuth.

[TassiloDavid]

My God, this is gorgeous . . . like a tour through a labyrinthine and bejeweled underwater grotto filled with azure waters and populated with schools of darting fish and fantastical sea plants.

[ilkinond]

Yes, the orchestration glitters.doesn't it?

[09232377788]

MAGICLE!!!

[xatzidakis]

awesome how magic the ''colour-surrounded'' sounds can be..

[Reverie10]

Wonderful!

[babyGirlKelli]

Amazing composer...just great!

[LackingLack0]

this was hardly atonal or abrasive

very melodic really

[BearWindAppleyard]

you can't deny that this is atonal in some sense.

[Medsas]

it certainly is in regards to other "harder" pieces from Boulez but let's not push it too far up the accessibility spectrum.

[TassiloDavid]

Let's not push it too far up whose accessibility spectrum, yours or mine?

[Medsas]

it is a comment in regards to the video description

"Unlike his earlier, more overtly academic pieces, this is fairly accessible (or at least comparitively so)"

[ilkinond]

Please don't push it up my spectrum.

[DannyDaWriter]

It should be known that most of Boulez's music is actually quite lyrical — his music is very accessible, as I have found.

[Bolenderable]

It's melodic. It's magical. It's theatrical. It's poetic. But definitely not tonal in the sense of having a diatonically determined tonal center. The weightless feel of the music has a lot to do with its lack of tonality.

[TheBlackPage1]

Gorgeous.