Very nice, rather very enjoyable performance of a work I have studied since 1969! Any effort to perform the work I applaud. Thank you for keeping Varese alive
COM TODO RESPEITO AO EXCELENTÍSSIMO ZAPPA, ISSO NUNCA FOI MÚSICA, MAS UM LABORATÓRIO EXPERIMENTAL MUSICAL, QUE NA MÃO DE ZAPPA ELE TRANSFORMOU EM MÚSICA.
Este laboratório buscou um equilíbrio nos timbres, uma calibração no arranjo e textura, um uso consciente na dinâmica, resultando em um discurso coerente e dramático. Mas essa não é música, é?
They are thinking "I don't understand this" but they don't realise you don't need to understand, just listen. If you like the sounds you hear, then good. If not, go listen to something else. There is nothing to 'undertand' as such.
Nice performance although we can see the guy playing the sirens but we barely hear them! There should be two sirens, one high and one lower, and they are very important especially at the beginning of the piece and at the end...
Thank goodness this sort of experimental music is no longer foisted on the music loving public. Music of more recent vintage seems much more accessible and less "pointy headed" to me. Frank Zappa's music was much, much better than this guy's. There was a very interesting article in the Sunday NY Times a few decades ago about how academics who wrote this kind of music temporarily dominated the music scene by controlling grant money and academic promotions, to the detriment of those who wrote accessible music.
I started piano lessons in fourth grade, then moved on to trumpet in school band, started playing electric guitar a few years later, added drums in ninth grade, bass later in high school. Paid for college playing percussions instruments, so I can't experience music as a non-musician, and can only guess at what that's like. Even when I'm able to get lost in a piece of music, there's still part of my brain wondering what key it's in, analyzing structure, the more 'pointy headed' experience of a song, to borrow your not-inaccurate phrase. I first experienced this piece as a member of a percussion ensemble that was attempting to learn it. I think this sort of music probably has a much greater appeal to other musicians, much as Zappa's does. I think that accessibility is part of the reason why. This is not something even I would want to listen to on the radio, because it sounds like chaos. What struck me about Varese, in college, was that his music forced me to reconsider the parameters that formed the boundaries of what I believed music to be. This piece sounds like chaos, but it's chaos that can be perfectly recreated, because it's transcribed chaos. This was the piece that made me realize that music has no boundaries, or limits, and has no good or bad in it. Structurally, melodically or rhythmically superior? Even then you're using subjective terms. It really isn't much to listen to, once. Repeated listenings is what brings home the power of the piece. All I know is it completely changed my perspective, for the better. As for grants for composition, that stuff has been political and self-important for who knows how long? Most so-called classical music from the last half of the 20th century was garbage. I imagine the baroque period had its share of stinkers, too. I agree with you on the value of accessible music, particularly for non-musical listeners (which makes up the bulk of the Western world), and even I love a lot of music the arty art pointy heads in a lot of music schools would consider barbaric. I'm grateful, though, for the mavericks, as well, who made me stop and go, "Whaaaaaaat?" just long enough to glimpse a new perspective. As Frank said, "Music is the best."
This is super well filmed too. Bravo to the camera people!!!
Very nice, rather very enjoyable performance of a work I have studied since 1969! Any effort to perform the work I applaud. Thank you for keeping Varese alive
I know about this music since my youth... First time a head this peace... One of the bleuprints of modern music. Respect to Varese!
Frank was Genius when he listened to this in his teenage years...
varese was genius
Lovely excellent production. wHoa.
Excellent performance of a difficult piece.
Thank you.
very interesting piece. im studying Music Appreciation and this was noted in my textbook so i thought i'd look it up and see.
Music Appreciation? What's that about?
Each time, i see this perfomance...i love it....
Boundaries of art In itself.
¡¡Excellent interpretation, congratulations!!
Excelente percusión...
the best version that i eard at this moment!
Loving this
still love it!!
This is excellent. I was brought here by Frank Zappa's autobiography.
COM TODO RESPEITO AO EXCELENTÍSSIMO ZAPPA, ISSO NUNCA FOI MÚSICA, MAS UM LABORATÓRIO EXPERIMENTAL MUSICAL, QUE NA MÃO DE ZAPPA ELE TRANSFORMOU EM MÚSICA.
Este laboratório buscou um equilíbrio nos timbres, uma calibração no arranjo e textura, um uso consciente na dinâmica, resultando em um discurso coerente e dramático. Mas essa não é música, é?
I love the look of the audience's faces at 3:54 and 4:59. They're not really sure what's happening...
They are thinking "I don't understand this" but they don't realise you don't need to understand, just listen. If you like the sounds you hear, then good. If not, go listen to something else. There is nothing to 'undertand' as such.
Very cool!
J'adore !!! Voilà une version pleine de subtilités.
I love this. Air raid sirens. Varese creates his own vocabulary.
VARESE GENIO
Great.
Fantástico!
It probably makes people UNDERSTAND to SEE it also to hear it!!!
APPLAUSI!!!
very cool
具有美國風格的作曲家，他的作品充滿了實驗，他希望能夠製造一些音樂，要能夠和我們傳統音樂作曲，具有包括20世紀科學主義，發明主義、實驗主義的特質，離子化等等，從曲名之中，我們可以看這樣一個特質，他希望超脫掉我們傳統音樂的一些想法、調性、旋律，使用一些新鮮的手法，他認為音樂在空間感，聲音是一個質心體，它帶有某些特有音色、音高、節奏，以及旋律之姿態，在整個音樂之中迴盪、相自交換效果。
曾新禧 An attempt to experiment with music that resonates with your core, yeah I can see that. Would you be able to suggest other music like this?
Zappa brought me here...
I think it would've made Frank smile to know that. I really do.
Same thing with me.
"The present day composer refuses to die." -Edgard Varese (made popular by Frank Zappa)
A mi tambien me trajo Zappa
Bravo😀
Not too shabby
Glory
Edgard Varese (1883~1965)
為了打擊樂團所寫的曲目,他認為任何聲音都是音樂的元素,音樂是有空間感的質量體
他希望超脫傳統音樂既有想法,找尋更新鮮更原始的聲音
1957~58年為了飛利浦所做的電子音詩,具有實驗精神的美國風格,利用音樂製造空間感
Nice performance although we can see the guy playing the sirens but we barely hear them! There should be two sirens, one high and one lower, and they are very important especially at the beginning of the piece and at the end...
There are some videos of Ionisations but the rest are really bad. This interpretation is very good.
came 2 this after I saw it in an art book in my class n like, this is fuckung dope ngl
same here, reading the real frank zappa book.
Was that a baby crying at the end or part of the score?
It was the wind machine that can be seen in 4:25
A lot of us Zappasciples inevitably arrive here. I know I did.(=
he also dug stravinsky.
the faces at 3:45 😂
fantastic performance. the audience at 3:44 is hilarious though.
LOL the kid at 4:58!! LOL
Where did they found a cow?
Alon Ostrun whoms't
it's scary😱
literally why is there a conductor?
Kunal Gala to keep time as usual?
5:01 the little kid XD
Producciones Zuleras Yeah XD LOL😂
i'm just here for a subject
Bit sad tho'... did anyone clap?
The music sound like a "shreds" video.
Zappa was right
No wonder Frank Zappa loved this dude..
he's experiencing a shift in chi energy. far out.
Thank goodness this sort of experimental music is no longer foisted on the music loving public. Music of more recent vintage seems much more accessible and less "pointy headed" to me. Frank Zappa's music was much, much better than this guy's. There was a very interesting article in the Sunday NY Times a few decades ago about how academics who wrote this kind of music temporarily dominated the music scene by controlling grant money and academic promotions, to the detriment of those who wrote accessible music.
I started piano lessons in fourth grade, then moved on to trumpet in school band, started playing electric guitar a few years later, added drums in ninth grade, bass later in high school. Paid for college playing percussions instruments, so I can't experience music as a non-musician, and can only guess at what that's like. Even when I'm able to get lost in a piece of music, there's still part of my brain wondering what key it's in, analyzing structure, the more 'pointy headed' experience of a song, to borrow your not-inaccurate phrase. I first experienced this piece as a member of a percussion ensemble that was attempting to learn it. I think this sort of music probably has a much greater appeal to other musicians, much as Zappa's does. I think that accessibility is part of the reason why. This is not something even I would want to listen to on the radio, because it sounds like chaos. What struck me about Varese, in college, was that his music forced me to reconsider the parameters that formed the boundaries of what I believed music to be. This piece sounds like chaos, but it's chaos that can be perfectly recreated, because it's transcribed chaos. This was the piece that made me realize that music has no boundaries, or limits, and has no good or bad in it. Structurally, melodically or rhythmically superior? Even then you're using subjective terms. It really isn't much to listen to, once. Repeated listenings is what brings home the power of the piece. All I know is it completely changed my perspective, for the better. As for grants for composition, that stuff has been political and self-important for who knows how long? Most so-called classical music from the last half of the 20th century was garbage. I imagine the baroque period had its share of stinkers, too. I agree with you on the value of accessible music, particularly for non-musical listeners (which makes up the bulk of the Western world), and even I love a lot of music the arty art pointy heads in a lot of music schools would consider barbaric. I'm grateful, though, for the mavericks, as well, who made me stop and go, "Whaaaaaaat?" just long enough to glimpse a new perspective. As Frank said, "Music is the best."
...and now back to Moby Dick.
Bonham's heroin years really showed in his solos.
African drummers sound infinitely better
Originally from 1931 I believe. Psychedelic be anyone knew Psychedelic.