Ligeti: "Lux aeterna"

Gyorgy Ligeti: "Lux aeterna" (1966) for sixteen solo voices

Category:

Music

Tags:

• modern
• atonal
• microtonal
• polyphonic
• texture
• 2001
• Space
• Odyssey
• Kubrick
• science
• fiction

[halloerde]

I think you are right about the tension. First, one has to wipe Kubrick's images away. Ligeti was a Hungarian Jew who lost his mother to the Holocaust. I don't hear Sirens here, but a promise of Eternal Rest, with the evil distortions of the 20th century distorting. How does one resolve that gap; believing in beauty, but experiencing brutality? The man was a classicist in many ways, and poses a challenge, which he leaves to others to answer: how do we regain that lost innocence, and beauty?

[aimeeelulu]

sorry, but i have to admit that i'm kinda scared by this piece. maybe that's part of the beauty that everyone else sees in this piece, cause it's not easy to compose a piece that can give me this many shivers.

[Transformers2themax]

@Manguypersonthing1 And when I say I "just watched" the film, I mean that I just watched it a moment ago, this being one of the many times of seeing it since the first viewing...And if you're curious about my username, it's a paradox.

[Transformers2themax]

@Manguypersonthing1 Everything you just said I already know. I completely adore 2001 and the film's symbolism. I'm one of the only people I know who actually understands the film. In fact, I just watched it. I also just this day received an original vinyl copy of the film's soundtrack in mint condition. This is my favorite film of all time, Kubrick is my favorite filmmaker, and, yes, I understand symbolism. I sometimes get overly excited about subtext myself with my own film ideas.

[Manguypersonthing1]

@Transformers2themax If you're really gunna be a filmmaker,you gotta understand symbolism. 2001 is a good example. Just listen to it and look for symbols,you'll understand the mind of Kubrick much better.It's commonly believed 2001 was actually a propaganda film to land on the moon,as the first astronauts got there one year after the film's release.So the piece doesn't have meaning until you put with the image.

just sayin'

[Transformers2themax]

Don't over-analyze. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the film, it's my favorite film, Kubrick's my favorite filmmaker, and I'm an aspiring filmmaker who analyzes this stuff as well...but analyzing the music? It's just supposed to add tension to the scene. Why do folks believe that when music is playing in a film, it's present in the story? It's just adding to the experience. There are no aliens humming this. The whole idea of extraterrestrial life is supposed to be unknown.

[o0POSH0o]

Genius...... sheer genius.

[DafniElissa]

@TheKaifercat davvero...

[banger11001]

so ein bullshit ey.. unfassbar !

so Vorkriegs-Minimal ..

[TheKaifercat]

questi fanno i filosofi loro kubrick ed odissea nello spazio..... e non hanno capito che Ligeti è un mostro e che semplicemente sentendo il pezzo a occhi chiusi si può vedere molto più che in qualsiasi film...