Ligeti Atmospheres

@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.

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

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.

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.

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

keep em comin.

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

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

@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

what does BCTDOH an acronym?

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