Gerard Grisey was one of the founders of the spectralist school of composers, who sought a way of writing music based upon the character of sound itself, throwing off the arbitrariness of 12-tone serialism and seeking harmonies even more consonant than common-practice tonality. 'We are musicians, and our model is sound and not literature, sound and not mathematics, sound and not theatre, or fine arts, quantum physics, geology, astrology, or acupuncture,' Grisey wrote. LES ESPACES ACOUSTIQUES is a cycle of six works the composer wrote early in his career, from 1974 to 1985. They serve as his masterpiece, a credo of the spectralist approach to composition, and they may even change the way you think about music forever.mediafire.com/?zhw41ioyyx1I really don't know how to talk about classical music, but this is completely astounding.

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Thanks for all this great stuff guys, I had been meaning to move into classical music, as a lot of ambient and avant-garde crossed that border into compositions already. I know there's a lot of good listening to be had, but I was always intimidated by the sheer volume of material.all the major composers have endless versions of different ensembles performing, and it can really make a difference which version you have that determines whether or not you like a particular piece.So I'm totally raiding this thread. Very interested in Ligeti, Feldman and Penderecki based on what I've read about them.I'll post La Monte Young's The Well Tuned Piano later.

In 192, I don't know if that's some sort of heresy with this type of music. La Monte Young - The Well Tuned PianoYoung's magnum opus reflects his devotion to the system of 'just intonation.'

While Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier marked the adoption of the equal-tempered tuning system in Western music - the system, familiar to our ears, that skews the intervals of the scale slightly to allow transposition to any key without having to retune the instrument - Young's five-hour work (give or take an hour, since large portions of it are improvised) utilizes mathematically perfect, Pythagorean intervals that sound slightly out-of-tune to our well-tempered ears, but that create shimmering resonances and clouds of overtones not possible with equal tuning. As each theme or melody unfolds, it slowly accelerates, until the notes are repeated so rapidly that their overtones blend and resonate, hovering, as it were, like a cloud above the piano.

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Even if the listener is not committed to taking in an entire uninterrupted performance, the moment-to-moment musical events can be quite engaging and often beautiful. Like Philip Glass and Steve Reich, members of the next minimalist generation, Young was heavily influenced by non-Western music, as well as non-Western ideas. The just intonation system espoused in The Well-Tuned Piano is found frequently in the music of other cultures, and some have compared the slowly unfolding ideas in the The Well-Tuned Piano, in spirit if not in sound, to an Indian raga. Young speaks both in spiritual and scientific terms about the piece, frequently citing psychoacoustical research on the effects of sustained or repeated resonances - resonances, which he says, are 'illuminated before me as if emanating from the Universal Source of the Eternal Sound.'

The various sections of the piece are given appropriately mystical names, including 'The Goddess of the Caverns Underneath the Pool,' 'The Theme of the Lyre of Orpheus,' and 'The Homage to Brahms Variation of the Theme of the Dawn of Eternal Time in the Deepest Pool.' While such extra-musical accoutrements might stir up suspicions, judgment should be suspended until the work can be experienced or at least sampled. There is something otherworldly, if not as astrally ennobling as Young might claim, about the sonic fields created by 'true' intervals, and Young's deliberations upon these sounds are artfully constructed.CD 1CD 2CD 3CD 4CD 5.