It's a high-intensity radio wave burst emitted by the monolith when sunlight hits it for the first time since it was buried. It is signalling the monolith near Jupiter that the second stage of evolution is complete (man developing to point where they reached the moon) and encouraging the humans to follow the signal to find the third monolith thus driving evolution forward again.
This music is from the "Requiem" (1963-1965) composed by György Ligeti. This is the "Kyrie", the second section of the "Requiem". It was composed as a fugue.
@@davidkolaga8489the film and the book are very different though, and Arthur C Clark had only seen bits and pieces of the movie while he was writing, and Kubrick wanted to emphasize that and point out that the novel is not a direct adaptation of the movie or vice versa.
@@dariselectricincorporated3226 no. Not very different. The filming and the writing were carried out almost simultaneously with much collaboration between kubrick and clarke. There is considerably more exposition in the book. The movie contains just about everything in the book but not vice versa because the movie would then be about nine hours long. Other than that they are very similar.
@@davidkolaga8489 No, Clarke had not seen the entire movie before he finished writing the book, and Kubrick wanted to differentiate the two and demonstrated that by them having 2 completely seperate destinations, film: Jupiter, novel: Saturn, the film goes one direction and the novel in the other. Some of the differences are subtle, but even Kubrick said himself you can’t say “This scene from the movie really confused me, I’ll read the novel for the explanation” one is not a reference to the other, there are major differences, especially when it comes to the hidden narrative of the film.
@@dariselectricincorporated3226 clarke's descriptions of what bowman saw/experienced after he went into the monolith are invaluable aids to understanding the ending. And the more detailed story of the hominids' first encounter with the monolith is crucial to understanding the monolith's apparent (i.e. not hidden at all) purpose.
EuroTrasho Productions Define "troll". You seem to be using it incorrectly. And it actually isn't true. And now, instead of asking how that is so, you're just going to whine and conveniently skirt around defining 'troll' because you don't know the proper meaning.
This scene absolutely fuckin terrified me. Just the music and the dread that this big dark alien thing creates is so raw. Its amazing because i think what i was feeling was the primal fear of the unknown, and as evolution and primitive nature is a big theme in the movie, as it starts off with early man...so clever
The use of profanity does little to enhance you comment. Actually, it is somewhat of an insult to the scene you are retelling. I'm glad Kubrick and Ligeti chose to articulate themselves in far more poetic, less prosaic ways, than you did.
hot damn, what a great scene...the concept of the alarm letting the creators of the monolith know humans have reached a type 1 civilization (capable of interplanetary travel) is pure brilliance...arthur clarke was a master. coincidently, i saw an interview recently with physicist dr. michio kaku concurring that such a monolith was the most likely form of hypothetical alien contact...fascinating
The monolith thrills me every time I see it. It has the divine, the science, the curiosity and the mistery of the universe condensed in a black and obscure piece of very advanced technology. It's the limit of our knowledge, from our deep brain to the deep cosmos... It unifies it all, and still we are debating about its meaning. Our "real life" monolith is the Universe and we're touching its edges every day...
I like this. It's like that weird sense of fear you get when you think about the unknowability of the universe, but it's radiating out of this cold black stone.
The funny thing is that this is creepier for the viewer than it is for the astronauts. You hear all this creepy music and all they hear is the photographer's voice on the radio telling them to gather for a group photo and then that screech, which they probably just thought was their suit radios malfunctioning before turning them off. They wouldn't have known that the signal was coming from the monolith until they saw or heard about instrumentation data that said the monolith was the source, probably after they walked back to the shuttle and took off their helmets.
Sorry for the nectropost, but this is movie suspense technique 101. Beginning with Alfred Hitchcock, the master: 1) Make the audience as uncomfortable as possible during that time, but still wondering when it will happen (first major bird attack scene in “The Birds”, in the diner). 2) Ideally the person(s) are totally unaware it will happen (shower scene in [Psycho”, most notoriously). 3) Then deliver. Nowadays there might also be this: 4) A second shock as well that they didn’t expect; but that is a newer style from the modern horror genre of film. But yeah; the juxtaposition of audience being creeped out as Hell while it’s just another sunny day on the Moon for the astronauts is probably also quite deliberate, and also an expression of Kubrik’s sense of humor about such things. Films can be such powerful things when they manipulate the mood and emotions of the audience so directly and assertively.
Something else just occurred to me, an entire excavation team came here to dig this hole, clear out the area around the monolith, shore up the walls, and install the lighting rigs. They even ran power and data lines and built a landing pad. Floyd may not be the first man to touch the object.
That and the fact that the audience has seen that the last time the monolith was touched, apes were enlightened into humanity. So what'll it do the second time?
One day, in a distant october, I will dress up as the monolith and station myself in the middle of a road during a dark evening whilst playing this soundtrack on a stereo I brought with me. It will be bliss, it will be scary and it will be fucking hilarious.
And I was all like "DONT TOUCH IT DONT TOUCH IT DONT TOUCH IT" when he reached out. I mean the damned thing hasn't really done anything up until this point, but it already has an aura of incomprehensible alien-ness about it. The music helps a lot, too.
I remember nearly jumping out of my seat during this section when I saw it for the first time. I didn’t see “2001: A Space Odyssey” when it opened in NYC in April 1968, as I would’ve been almost seven; I saw it as a teen. Around that time I also saw Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”. That was scary as well, even though I’d already read Anthony Burgess’ book (which I highly recommend, btw) at my high school in Brooklyn.
Imo the scene would be completely tepid without the music. All of the tension comes from the way the music colors the scene. And good lord what a color.
When this starts playing as soon as the red light comes on in the plane in Godzilla, i get chills every fucking time (Seen it twice as of now). Its so awesome and fits perfectly with the halo jump. Love that movie and will be seeing it at least 1 more time in theaters before its run is done
An interesting fact: the sounds here are real music, look up Gyorgy Ligeti. This is the kyrie section from his requiem. The singers are actually singing kyrie eleison, kyrie eleison, Christ have mercy ... I think Kubrick just chose it for its suspenseful sound though.
Bullshit. Nature does not, as far as we know, produce strait lines/ structures. The ONLY conclusion one could draw is that the monolith was made by an intelligent non human agency.
Great scene. The acting style is almost as if we are watching a documentary. I like the guy with the camera, tilting it as if winding it, who knows what he is doing but he seems so naturally caught up in the activity but this is all staged. Hand-held photography, shooting into light source, Kubrick was a great artist.
I attended the premier in Los Angeles. I was 13-years old. Sat two rows behind Otto Preminger. You have to see this scene crisp in a big theater, with big sound. When the bass parts of Ligeti's composition kicked in as they walked down the ramp, a felt a door being blown open inside of me. I was into science fiction already. After that I would be ready for religion in another 10-years. Kubrick is an artist. That's what artists do. They open doors for us.
I'm very glad they showed this, restored on a decent, cinema here in Brazil this year. It was the first time I watched. Really, I never cried watching any movie, but some scenes like this one, and the portal scene were so intense, that I did. And I can't even know why, it couldn't be tears of happiness, sadness or fear, maybe you can really cry tears of pure Awe.
some of the dialougue is a little cheeky but overall ....a masterpiece .... especially given the time period .... when I saw it as a kid I was blown away ....
The films opening and during the intermission, we are not looking at an empty black screen at all. We are looking directly at the surface of the monolith. The monolith is the film screen and it is singing directly at its audience in the same way that the apes and astronauts are entranced by its heavenly voice, not realising that they are being communicated with directly. So no, it's not a "music" as we all expected, but the singing of the monolith when a human or sentient are close-by. Genius!
The piece is Ligeti's REQUIEM. His music is mind-blowingly brilliant, and this piece makes you feel things you probably (hopefully?) never felt before!
Kubrick also considered Penderecki's Dies Irae Auschwitz Oratorio for this and a scene in the Dawn of Man part and the scene in the area of the Planet Jupiter. That piece of music would also fit 2001 A Space Odyssey well. But he decided to go with Ligeti's Requiem. BTW Ligeti had family members who were killed in the Holocaust.
@@nielspemberton59 Ligeti did not receive a single cent for this. He litigated for 6 years and was eventually awarded a one-time payment of $3,500, which didn't even cover attorney's fees.
It's the same stuff. Trailers quite often incorporate music from other films. Plus the films are both owned by Warner Bros. so they have the rights for this.
In the presence of the grandly ineffable...and when Floyd touches it and there is that extra hum (which stops when he takes his hand from it)....just incredible
Did anyone notice that the Earth was floating in the night sky directly above the pit where the Monolith was buried? That really adds to the creepiness of this entire scene. We are still many years away from actually having a presence on the Moon.
The scene of Floyd and his mates walking down the ramp was filmed by Kubrick himself using a very heavy Panaflex 70 that he put on his shoulder as he walked down with them. It was both the first day of filming and the last day of 1965 -- December 31. Benson notes (in the "Making of" book) that most sources say December 30th but Kubrick was still working out the kinks and nothing was filmed till the 31st. In Hollywood, they got the go-ahead to film PLANET OF THE APES the same week, and that was how 2001 and POA were released so close together two years later in 1968.
This music has nothing to do with Moog nor with synthesizers. It's an excerpt Kyrie from a requiem by György Ligeti, in an all-acoustical performance. Ligeti's career was wide-ranging and his works bring people into new worlds all through their ears. Two other works by Ligeti were appropriated for this movie.
The only way I find to watch this movie is in it's true 70mm print. The dread you get from sitting in a large theater, watching the astronauts approach the unknown object as the music builds over the loud speakers, is enough to instill anxiety attacks.
@idgarad The monolith represents many things. The apes at the beginning of this movie represents the very beginning of human existence. From the moment they discover physics and how to survive, that all represents the beggining of human thought. The monolith at the beginning represents the ability to measure, the ability to think, the ability to evolve... the beggining of LIFE... the beginning of every humans life.
Sure the creepy music is...well, creepy. However, it was brilliant of Kubrick to choose because it's a perfect choice for the discovery of an unknown object in the midst of space.
As a child I remember owning a licensed toy of that shuttle craft.. resembled a wheel-less space bus of sorts, the same vehicle that they enjoyed those crust less sandwiches looking like some sort of pate, while so casually chatting about incredible moon anomalies...
The Moon is a very strange & creepy place. But at the same.time it holds so much secrets, mysteries, & history.. I know this a Science Fiction, but with the choir score playing in the background gives me horror movie vibes.....✌❤✌❤✌❤
You're right and 55 years later even after seeing 2001: a Space Odyssey dozens of time, you haven't finished to ponder over its complexity and richness!
@hush00 Did you ever watch the 70s British kids TV show 'The Children of the Stones' filmed around the stone circle at Avebury (not far from Stonehenge)? This music always reminds me of that...
Oh, it should not be an unknown reason. This scene upsets every possible notion about humanity's superior role in the universe. It clearly should terrify any person who thinks it through.
The final shot in the scene is geometrically impossible, given everything else we've seen--which just underscores the symbolism of it, echoing other shots in the movie.
Lyrics of this sequence: 'Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.'
I would hope so, one of our eternal questions has been if we are alone and this object constructed thousands or millions of years ago by alien hands and left on our doorstep, as it were, just answered that we are not.
Although the scene in magnifficently done, it gives me the creeps every time I watch it. The music is eerie, creepy and utterly non-natural. It literary send shivers donw my spine.
You don't know how loud that ringing can get in theaters, I forgot the sound thing even happened so I was caught off-guard, the majority of people in the theater were covering there ears, but I didn't because I wasn't gonna act like a bitch in front of a crowd. Was the minor tinnitus worth it, who knows
I'm personally fond of 2010. Both movies were done with a very different approach in mind and I don't think 2010 should be compared to 2001. It was never meant to try and live up to the original, instead a different, much more narrative approach was chosen. It does leave the viewer with less material to think about in the end, but I felt the message the movie sent was powerful nonetheless. I kinda wish they filmed 2063 as well.
I always imagined that the reality of alien life would be like this- Humans struggling to comprehend while the artefact appears to be disinterested with the humans.
it be really creepy and scary to see a big random dark black monilith that didnt reflect light wat so ever on a lawn in ur school with the choir singing louder and louder everytime u get closer......
Nous sommes ici en pleine musique contemporaine savante. Ligeti marque une rupture avec la musique sérielle et anticipe sur la musique spectrale (mouvement des années 70, dans lequel les compositeurs décomposent les sons à l’aide d e machines électroniques). Ce n’est sans doute pas pour rien que Kubrick a choisi ce morceau (quelques mois après sa composition!) pour être un des éléments sonores phares de 2001, A Space Odyssey! D’ailleurs, il n’avait pas demandé son avis à Ligeti, qui lui a fait un procès. On aurait envie de lui dire que c’était plutôt un bel hommage et que ça a largement popularisé son oeuvre th-cam.com/video/-iVYu5lyX5M/w-d-xo.html
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It's a high-intensity radio wave burst emitted by the monolith when sunlight hits it for the first time since it was buried. It is signalling the monolith near Jupiter that the second stage of evolution is complete (man developing to point where they reached the moon) and encouraging the humans to follow the signal to find the third monolith thus driving evolution forward again.
Hey, Kubrick. What's the fifth letter of the alphabet?
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...
rather something like "kyrieeee"
The description really called it atmospheric music.. i listened to the whole 30 min of this requiem it’s not simply atmospheric music
If Kubrick had directed an episode of sesame street...
lol
This music is from the "Requiem" (1963-1965) composed by György Ligeti. This is the
"Kyrie", the second section of the "Requiem". It was composed as a
fugue.
I think it's more a canon than a fugue.
@@FreakieFan Let's just call it a fugato to settle the question = )
I love it.
Guido, did you shoot yourself in the head, or did you not?
2001: A Space Odyssey has to be one of the most creepy and weird movies that has ever been made. And that’s a good thing.
@@davidkolaga8489the film and the book are very different though, and Arthur C Clark had only seen bits and pieces of the movie while he was writing, and Kubrick wanted to emphasize that and point out that the novel is not a direct adaptation of the movie or vice versa.
@@dariselectricincorporated3226 no. Not very different. The filming and the writing were carried out almost simultaneously with much collaboration between kubrick and clarke. There is considerably more exposition in the book. The movie contains just about everything in the book but not vice versa because the movie would then be about nine hours long. Other than that they are very similar.
@@davidkolaga8489 No, Clarke had not seen the entire movie before he finished writing the book, and Kubrick wanted to differentiate the two and demonstrated that by them having 2 completely seperate destinations, film: Jupiter, novel: Saturn, the film goes one direction and the novel in the other. Some of the differences are subtle, but even Kubrick said himself you can’t say “This scene from the movie really confused me, I’ll read the novel for the explanation” one is not a reference to the other, there are major differences, especially when it comes to the hidden narrative of the film.
@@dariselectricincorporated3226 clarke's descriptions of what bowman saw/experienced after he went into the monolith are invaluable aids to understanding the ending. And the more detailed story of the hominids' first encounter with the monolith is crucial to understanding the monolith's apparent (i.e. not hidden at all) purpose.
I’d say not so much creepy and weird as strange and awe inspiring.
It's insane that a lot of the effects in this movie look way, way more realistic than the CGI stuff we get nowadays.
+EuroTrasho Productions ...No it isn't.
Xanatos You really felt the need to write such a empty and airheaded comment? Wow.
Xanatos Well, it is true. Now, I know your next troll comment will be something along the lines of "no it isn't", so, just, fuck off.
EuroTrasho Productions Define "troll". You seem to be using it incorrectly.
And it actually isn't true. And now, instead of asking how that is so, you're just going to whine and conveniently skirt around defining 'troll' because you don't know the proper meaning.
Practical effects vs CGI i guess
This one of my favorite scenes from any movie. The cinematography is phenomenal.
Yep you can see why he was approached to shoot the Apollo landings 😉🤪
This scene absolutely fuckin terrified me. Just the music and the dread that this big dark alien thing creates is so raw. Its amazing because i think what i was feeling was the primal fear of the unknown, and as evolution and primitive nature is a big theme in the movie, as it starts off with early man...so clever
The use of profanity does little to enhance you comment. Actually, it is somewhat of an insult to the scene you are retelling. I'm glad Kubrick and Ligeti chose to articulate themselves in far more poetic, less prosaic ways, than you did.
hot damn, what a great scene...the concept of the alarm letting the creators of the monolith know humans have reached a type 1 civilization (capable of interplanetary travel) is pure brilliance...arthur clarke was a master. coincidently, i saw an interview recently with physicist dr. michio kaku concurring that such a monolith was the most likely form of hypothetical alien contact...fascinating
The monolith thrills me every time I see it. It has the divine, the science, the curiosity and the mistery of the universe condensed in a black and obscure piece of very advanced technology. It's the limit of our knowledge, from our deep brain to the deep cosmos... It unifies it all, and still we are debating about its meaning. Our "real life" monolith is the Universe and we're touching its edges every day...
I really doubt that, to be honest.
Zowee, BlackLuke! Yours is the best comment by far. My hat is off to you.
I like this. It's like that weird sense of fear you get when you think about the unknowability of the universe, but it's radiating out of this cold black stone.
One of the best scenes in movie history.
Kubrick was a genius
This is the most frightening scene in 2001. You cannot anticipate what that piece of alien technology could do.
The funny thing is that this is creepier for the viewer than it is for the astronauts. You hear all this creepy music and all they hear is the photographer's voice on the radio telling them to gather for a group photo and then that screech, which they probably just thought was their suit radios malfunctioning before turning them off. They wouldn't have known that the signal was coming from the monolith until they saw or heard about instrumentation data that said the monolith was the source, probably after they walked back to the shuttle and took off their helmets.
Sorry for the nectropost, but this is movie suspense technique 101. Beginning with Alfred Hitchcock, the master: 1) Make the audience as uncomfortable as possible during that time, but still wondering when it will happen (first major bird attack scene in “The Birds”, in the diner). 2) Ideally the person(s) are totally unaware it will happen (shower scene in [Psycho”, most notoriously). 3) Then deliver. Nowadays there might also be this: 4) A second shock as well that they didn’t expect; but that is a newer style from the modern horror genre of film.
But yeah; the juxtaposition of audience being creeped out as Hell while it’s just another sunny day on the Moon for the astronauts is probably also quite deliberate, and also an expression of Kubrik’s sense of humor about such things.
Films can be such powerful things when they manipulate the mood and emotions of the audience so directly and assertively.
@@BlindManBert Interesting.
Something else just occurred to me, an entire excavation team came here to dig this hole, clear out the area around the monolith, shore up the walls, and install the lighting rigs. They even ran power and data lines and built a landing pad. Floyd may not be the first man to touch the object.
That and the fact that the audience has seen that the last time the monolith was touched, apes were enlightened into humanity. So what'll it do the second time?
No other movie achieved the same level of connection between the visuals and the music.
My favorite movie ever, this is beyond words.
One day, in a distant october, I will dress up as the monolith and station myself in the middle of a road during a dark evening whilst playing this soundtrack on a stereo I brought with me.
It will be bliss, it will be scary and it will be fucking hilarious.
So how did your prank go?
I need to know
Please give us an update
@@Kyled78 HE BECAME A STARCHILD
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have the person responsible for the monolith in that canyon lol
And I was all like "DONT TOUCH IT DONT TOUCH IT DONT TOUCH IT" when he reached out. I mean the damned thing hasn't really done anything up until this point, but it already has an aura of incomprehensible alien-ness about it. The music helps a lot, too.
IGameChangerI Scarier for the astronauts: just their own breathing, radio chatter from the others, and the silence of space....
I remember nearly jumping out of my seat during this section when I saw it for the first time. I didn’t see “2001: A Space Odyssey” when it opened in NYC in April 1968, as I would’ve been almost seven; I saw it as a teen. Around that time I also saw Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”. That was scary as well, even though I’d already read Anthony Burgess’ book (which I highly recommend, btw) at my high school in Brooklyn.
Imo the scene would be completely tepid without the music. All of the tension comes from the way the music colors the scene. And good lord what a color.
The howling is ethereal. Gives me goosebumps every time.
Very beautifully done scene, gritty, suspenseful, and the cinematography and score is breathtaking. Definitely my favorite sci fi scene of all time.
2001: A Space Odyssey always affirms how a film can make you think about many things that you regularly wouldn’t think about.
When this starts playing as soon as the red light comes on in the plane in Godzilla, i get chills every fucking time (Seen it twice as of now). Its so awesome and fits perfectly with the halo jump. Love that movie and will be seeing it at least 1 more time in theaters before its run is done
one of the scariest scenes of all time... brilliant
the beauty of this makes me cry. ligeti and penderecki deserve sainthood
My dad had the soundtrack on LP and used to play this when I was kid. It scared the shit out of me too.
An interesting fact: the sounds here are real music, look up Gyorgy Ligeti. This is the kyrie section from his requiem. The singers are actually singing kyrie eleison, kyrie eleison, Christ have mercy ... I think Kubrick just chose it for its suspenseful sound though.
This is what i called Cinema. Kubrick is a genious
Scares the hell out of me! It's the most haunting sound i've ever heard!
Let's be honest. If a similar monolith was found on the moon, it's origins would be debated for decades.
+Christian charles
True. If all scientists were placed shoulder-to-shoulder around the Earth, they would still never reach a consensus...
+CLASSICALFAN100 I bet someone thought of breaking the monolith in the movie. And in it, it just broke like a Rock and they're still baffled.
The one in the books was invulnerably shielded. Even megaton bombardment failed to so much as warm it.
More like centuries.
Bullshit. Nature does not, as far as we know, produce strait lines/ structures. The ONLY conclusion one could draw is that the monolith was made by an intelligent non human agency.
holy shit this STILL looks fucking amazing.
THIS is exactly why 2001 is the best movie ever created. Absolutely fucking breath-taking.
No horror movie has been able to terrify me like 2001 has. Fucking masterpiece
This would be my "entrance music" if I was a baseball player :)
have you played it in reverse? either way, I think the pitcher would just let you round the bases.
Great scene. The acting style is almost as if we are watching a documentary. I like the guy with the camera, tilting it as if winding it, who knows what he is doing but he seems so naturally caught up in the activity but this is all staged. Hand-held photography, shooting into light source, Kubrick was a great artist.
I attended the premier in Los Angeles. I was 13-years old. Sat two rows behind Otto Preminger. You have to see this scene crisp in a big theater, with big sound. When the bass parts of Ligeti's composition kicked in as they walked down the ramp, a felt a door being blown open inside of me. I was into science fiction already. After that I would be ready for religion in another 10-years. Kubrick is an artist. That's what artists do. They open doors for us.
well put, this movie is ....something else
I got to see it in 70mm recently OH MAN
My uncle was your same age and he watched it as well
yee
I'm very glad they showed this, restored on a decent, cinema here in Brazil this year. It was the first time I watched. Really, I never cried watching any movie, but some scenes like this one, and the portal scene were so intense, that I did. And I can't even know why, it couldn't be tears of happiness, sadness or fear, maybe you can really cry tears of pure Awe.
some of the dialougue is a little cheeky but overall ....a masterpiece .... especially given the time period .... when I saw it as a kid I was blown away ....
this one scene is the scariest scene (because of the score) in the history of film.
MY favourite scene from any movie..ever
It's a symbol for E.T's terraforming life/evolution of a species.
Any time I hear this audio it gives me goosebumps!
Its perfect for a burglar alarm, especially the loud sound at the end
Every time I hear it I run to my bedroom, jump under the covers to hide and I do deep breathing to calm down. Sometimes with a rosary in my hand.
The films opening and during the intermission, we are not looking at an empty black screen at all. We are looking directly at the surface of the monolith. The monolith is the film screen and it is singing directly at its audience in the same way that the apes and astronauts are entranced by its heavenly voice, not realising that they are being communicated with directly. So no, it's not a "music" as we all expected, but the singing of the monolith when a human or sentient are close-by. Genius!
The piece is Ligeti's REQUIEM. His music is mind-blowingly brilliant, and this piece makes you feel things you probably (hopefully?) never felt before!
Kubrick also considered Penderecki's Dies Irae Auschwitz Oratorio for this and a scene in the Dawn of Man part and the scene in the area of the Planet Jupiter. That piece of music would also fit 2001 A Space Odyssey well. But he decided to go with Ligeti's Requiem. BTW Ligeti had family members who were killed in the Holocaust.
@@nielspemberton59 Ligeti did not receive a single cent for this. He litigated for 6 years and was eventually awarded a one-time payment of $3,500, which didn't even cover attorney's fees.
@@nielspemberton59glad they didn't go with that, doesn't fit the scene at all.
I just had to confirm but they do seem alot alike. This music and the track from the new Godzilla movie trailer.
It's the same stuff. Trailers quite often incorporate music from other films. Plus the films are both owned by Warner Bros. so they have the rights for this.
TheGameHeaven The piece is Gyorgy Ligeti's "Lux Aeterna" Warner Bros. definitely does not own the rights to it.
They used something very similar, not that that's a bad thing.
***** Yeah sorry I literally realized that right after I posted it.
+TheGameHeaven 2001 A Space Odyssey was a Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie
If i walked towards a mysterious slab of stone and heard that shit, it’d be an instant nope for me
There are some movies who's special effects still hold up to this day. This movie, Terminaror 2, and Jurrassic Park, etc.
Our chamber choir once sang this in a concert - very difficult and atmospheric.
This was the first scene to be filmed for 2001 back in December 1965.
In the presence of the grandly ineffable...and when Floyd touches it and there is that extra hum (which stops when he takes his hand from it)....just incredible
Did anyone notice that the Earth was floating in the night sky directly above the pit where the Monolith was buried? That really adds to the creepiness of this entire scene. We are still many years away from actually having a presence on the Moon.
The scene of Floyd and his mates walking down the ramp was filmed by Kubrick himself using a very heavy Panaflex 70 that he put on his shoulder as he walked down with them. It was both the first day of filming and the last day of 1965 -- December 31. Benson notes (in the "Making of" book) that most sources say December 30th but Kubrick was still working out the kinks and nothing was filmed till the 31st. In Hollywood, they got the go-ahead to film PLANET OF THE APES the same week, and that was how 2001 and POA were released so close together two years later in 1968.
Beautiful!! just plain beautiful!!
Rob Ager made a discovery. Monolith is a moviescreen. High pitch is a feedback.
I fvcking love this film. One of the best ways to spend time ever. I wish they'd made the sequel as epic though.
I love this song. I listen to it every night, it helps me sleep. So soothing.
It's not like I need sleep or anything. Thanks, Mr. Kubrick!
This music has nothing to do with Moog nor with synthesizers. It's an excerpt Kyrie from a requiem by György Ligeti, in an all-acoustical performance. Ligeti's career was wide-ranging and his works bring people into new worlds all through their ears.
Two other works by Ligeti were appropriated for this movie.
probably the greatest display of suspense and camera shake in film history
The only way I find to watch this movie is in it's true 70mm print. The dread you get from sitting in a large theater, watching the astronauts approach the unknown object as the music builds over the loud speakers, is enough to instill anxiety attacks.
It's crazy that Godzilla added this because it randomly popped up on his playlist lol
@idgarad The monolith represents many things. The apes at the beginning of this movie represents the very beginning of human existence. From the moment they discover physics and how to survive, that all represents the beggining of human thought. The monolith at the beginning represents the ability to measure, the ability to think, the ability to evolve... the beggining of LIFE... the beginning of every humans life.
Sure the creepy music is...well, creepy. However, it was brilliant of Kubrick to choose because it's a perfect choice for the discovery of an unknown object in the midst of space.
When someone takes photos with a hasselblad, you know it's a very big moment.😎
As a child I remember owning a licensed toy of that shuttle craft.. resembled a wheel-less space bus of sorts, the same vehicle that they enjoyed those crust less sandwiches looking like some sort of pate, while so casually chatting about incredible moon anomalies...
I was listening to this on headphones and had to glance over my shoulder a few times.
Proper attribution of the music would be a nice thing to add to the video description at some point. I’ll bet there are a few tones and sections of this piece many of you have never heard before. I provide a block of attribution below should anyone want to hear the complete Requiem or peek at the score. It’s based on the Requiem section of traditional Roman Catholic masses, and sung in Latin (as it should be!). [Yes: there is a libretto (lyrics) for this piece that you could translate to English if you wanted to.]
This piece, and the compositional styles of György Ligeti inspired my own first foray into the world of modernist atmospheric music. Improvised one morning in my home studio with about an hour and a half of vocal improv. and recording, followed by roughly two hours of A/V production and final mix+compression render to 720p/AAC MPEG-4. Unscored, and not •nearly• as complete nor complex nor haunting as “Requiem”. But not bad for a first try, I think.
“Blind Man” Bert, Jupiter (atmospheric; 1st draft):
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MUSIC
Requiem - for soprano, mezzo-soprano, two mixed choruses & orchestra
Written by György Ligeti in 1963-1965
I. Introitus
II. Kyrie
III. De die judicii sequentia
IV. Lacrimosa
Complete vocal/orchestral performance #1
Makeda Monnet, soprano / Victoire Bunel, mezzo-soprano
Chœur National Hongrois / Csaba Somos, Chef de chœur
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris / Ensemble intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher, direction
Enregistré en direct le 07.12.2018 à la Philharmonie de Paris
Un bâtiment conçu par les Ateliers Jean Nouvel
© 2018 Heliox Films - Ensemble intercontemporain
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Complete vocal/orchestal performance #2 [with vocal score on video track]
Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Virpi Räisänen-Midth (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonique de Radio France, Choeur de Radio France
Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Edition Peters ©
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00:00 - I. Introitus
07:50 - II. Kyrie
15:31 - III. De die judicii sequentia
24:22 - IV. Lacrimosa
Thanks. Where can I find the lyrics?
The Moon is a very strange & creepy place. But at the same.time it holds so much secrets, mysteries, & history.. I know this a Science Fiction, but with the choir score playing in the background gives me horror movie vibes.....✌❤✌❤✌❤
The first day of shooting on 2001 - 50 years ago today, 29 December 1965.
+PopeLando Dude that is freaking insane. I wish I knew this ahead of time! Congrats!
You're right and 55 years later even after seeing 2001: a Space Odyssey dozens of time, you haven't finished to ponder over its complexity and richness!
@VermiIion A piece called Requiem by composer, Gyorgy Ligeti.
It's interesting how the chanting starts then builds up.
i feel like the people that made dead space made watching this movie a regular thing the atmosphere is perfect
*Hello 2020* monolith are here in utah
@hush00 Did you ever watch the 70s British kids TV show 'The Children of the Stones' filmed around the stone circle at Avebury (not far from Stonehenge)? This music always reminds me of that...
Wonderful!!
They definitely used that chanting in a scene in Sponge Bob, but I can't remember what was happening...
The music is a choral work called "Lux Aeterna" by the Hungarian composer Gyorgi Ligeti
It means Light eternal. It’s part of a requiem mass.
No, this is Requiem, by ligeti
This scene is strangely unnerving to me for an unknown reason
Oh, it should not be an unknown reason. This scene upsets every possible notion about humanity's superior role in the universe. It clearly should terrify any person who thinks it through.
“RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FUCKING NORMIES, STOP TOUCHING ME!!!!!”
-the monolith, probably
The final shot in the scene is geometrically impossible, given everything else we've seen--which just underscores the symbolism of it, echoing other shots in the movie.
Lyrics of this sequence: 'Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.'
There is something almost.. reverent, in the way the scientist touches the monolith.
I would hope so, one of our eternal questions has been if we are alone and this object constructed thousands or millions of years ago by alien hands and left on our doorstep, as it were, just answered that we are not.
The signal it sends to the monolith near Jupiter encourages man to develop the technology to reach Jupiter.
If one of the astronauts had dissapeared in this scene, I would have shit my pants.
Although the scene in magnifficently done, it gives me the creeps every time I watch it. The music is eerie, creepy and utterly non-natural. It literary send shivers donw my spine.
You don't know how loud that ringing can get in theaters, I forgot the sound thing even happened so I was caught off-guard, the majority of people in the theater were covering there ears, but I didn't because I wasn't gonna act like a bitch in front of a crowd. Was the minor tinnitus worth it, who knows
Headphone users disliked this scene.
I hate you🎧
i quite liked it
This is my next ringtone.
I'm personally fond of 2010. Both movies were done with a very different approach in mind and I don't think 2010 should be compared to 2001. It was never meant to try and live up to the original, instead a different, much more narrative approach was chosen. It does leave the viewer with less material to think about in the end, but I felt the message the movie sent was powerful nonetheless.
I kinda wish they filmed 2063 as well.
1.13 to 1.36 is some of the best filming ever
Monolith is a dangerous and scary thing! If one person can see him, then monolith can create scary sounds
Thank god today's movies do not play such creepy music. It's too much.
@Bassbait Theres a piece on the Shining by this same composer, it plays during one of the kids hallucinations, has a similar feel to this
Thx bro
And thus, the Commander learned of the Reaper threat.
It was cool to hear this in the new Godzilla trailer.
The inspiration of the Halo jump scene of Godzilla 2014 when it comes to music.
Refreshing to watch again in 2024…..H.A.L 9000 vs Dave…..❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸
“ I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I didn't notice this in the Godzilla trailer, but it defiantly clicked with me during the movie.
@snufleufugus It's during the scene in which Sponge-Gar discovers fire, a parody of how the Monoliths advanced human evolution. And stuff.
I always imagined that the reality of alien life would be like this- Humans struggling to comprehend while the artefact appears to be disinterested with the humans.
it be really creepy and scary to see a big random dark black monilith that didnt reflect light wat so ever on a lawn in ur school with the choir singing louder and louder everytime u get closer......
Oh my goodness, I declare it to be abundant with large, gravitationally fixed, incandescent bodies in space.
@rewq92384 perhaps. I'll have to re-watch the making of thing again.
BTW, looked up "Dolphin Island." Sounds AWESOME!
Nous sommes ici en pleine musique contemporaine savante.
Ligeti marque une rupture avec la musique sérielle
et anticipe sur la musique spectrale (mouvement des années 70,
dans lequel les compositeurs décomposent les sons à l’aide d
e machines électroniques).
Ce n’est sans doute pas pour rien que Kubrick a choisi ce morceau
(quelques mois après sa composition!) pour être un des éléments
sonores phares de 2001, A Space Odyssey! D’ailleurs, il n’avait
pas demandé son avis à Ligeti, qui lui a fait un procès.
On aurait envie de lui dire que c’était plutôt un bel hommage
et que ça a largement popularisé son oeuvre
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