When this piece premiered in Gothenburg, the organ literally caught fire! It couldn't handle the requirements, so had to be rebuilt, and after one year the piece REALLY premiered 😃
Prodigious piece! And wonderful interpretation, using all subtleties of the organ timber, with an incredible variety of colours and textures. At 4'50'' for instance, you would swear to hear a crowd whispering.
it happened in a rehearsal. the insurance company refused to pay because the investigation found that a fuse had been replaced with an insufficient wire connection, which caused the electrical system to overload and start a fire. not surprising considering how the piece starts out.
Mans journey into madness! "Some places are like people, Some SHINE and some don't"! "I guess you could say the Overlook Hotel here has something almost like "SHINING"! Awesome music!
Love how the notation is just these thick, ominous, black lines, then it gets to the 8:30 mark and it's like hit all the keys that's right all of them not even at the same time just slap your hands aaaaalll over the keyboard. And then you get the Fun Squiggles!
Don't listen to this if you're on drugs or have insomnia. The dissonant "beating" and oscillation comes in and out in such a weird way that it really makes you feel like you're falling out of your body. So disorienting. I'm checking out and coming back tomorrow to make sure this song isn't actually demon possession or some kind of "sunken place" hypnosis.
... Maravilhosa Obra Musical Contemporânea * VOLUMINA* ... !!! ... Do Meu Querido e Genial Mestre ... GYORGY LIGETI ... !!! ... Dedico - a Hoje a São Valentim ... E a Todos Os Namorados e Enamorados ... !!! ... (( *** Convencidos *** ))
New to me. I would now hear this as a predecessor to Xenakis' "Gmeeoorh." A delayed response to the suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising by the Soviets? That would serve even further as inspiration for Xenakis' reaction to what was going on in Greece in the late 1960s early 1970s.
Xenakis's scored a work call "Silver Apples of the Moon" some time in the mid '60s. Part of the soundscape was the recording of a 707 takeoff. It was published on the Vox label. I doubt if a CD was offered for sale.
Thank you Keith C. Yes that was Subotnick. I purchased the vinyl in 1969. Strange sounding stuff. My son took with him when he left for New York pax Max R.
My words, sir. Me myself as a diehard but open minded metal-head got absolutely blown away when I heard this master piece for the first time - just a few minutes ago, during an inaugural online conert of the new great Riegel organ from Gothenburg, Sweden. And I really hope one day I get to hear and feel it live!
@@ladislavmalak444 That is so cool, Volumina premiered in Gothenburg (my town, by the way), but not after the organ had to be repaired after catching fire(!!) during the first attempt of playing Volumina 😀 True story. Ligeti spent a lot of time in Sweden, and particularly, I believe, in Gothenburg.
@@ulfingvar1 Wow, now I am very jealous, I wish I lived anywhere near! :) And I would definitely appreciate more detail about that Volumina sparked fire/repair story - and if you do not want to disclose it here, then in a private message, please. Also, Gothenburg is very dear to me not only because of the organ, but also because that was the town, where the ice-hockey team of my country Slovakia has won its first and only world champions title. ;)
@@fxdmuller many thanks will get the local lit and Phil(Newcastle upon tyne) to buy a copy, unfortunately the UK council library service has been decimated by our conservative government
This isn’t your average organ music. No, my friends, this is something much deeper, more spiritual,, much heavier hitting. If you don’t like it, please leave. This music isn’t for the faint of heart.
The faint of heart look for 'spiritual' 'deep' things, because their intelligence cannot exchange for their emotions due to their incredible stupidity, where all you find in music is the 'feeling' and 'emotions' not realizing that the emotions are just a way for the stupid to rationalize what they don't understand I am talking about you.
There's no score as such. The diagrams in the video give an approximation of what should be played, but the actual notes played are up to the organist. So different organists can give very different performances.
Blanquear esta aberración sonora no puede ser sino equivalente de hacer apología del terrorismo contra el arte. Lástima que no hubiese encontrado mejor término en una hoguera...
Varèse is right: music is organized sound. No organization? Not music. Unless somebody can bring a compelling case that there is structure here (we're talking beats, measures, chords), this is a collection of unsettling noises. Suggesting otherwise is like comparing a bush rustling at night to a nocturne. Sure, it may make you feel frightened or relaxed - but it's not music.
@UCMlzno5i6DQQjM617nxYCvw this is just sound and noise you stupid moron, it has nothing to compare with what we have always deemed as music, if you take this piece and put it next to a work of beethoven, there is nothing similar except the use of noise, and beethoven makes music, and if this doesn't have anything in common with that, then it is not music.
quoting Varese of all people to diss Ligeti is a strange take to say the least lol (Ligeti was one of the greatest master of all time at organizing sound, he is one of the most rigourous composer there is imho)
It can be nice for others (like me, and other people), you don't listen this kind of music with the same expectations of traditional music. If you try to find a melody, or a rhythm, or even an harmony in the tonal sense. You will be disappointed, and see yourself lost. This is about texture and timbre. (sorry for some spelling errors, i'm not a native english speaker) .
But does it express good emotion? Or is it just a fascinating pattern, like a fractal? I find it boring for most of the time, because there isn't much variety. Also, the discorded tones give an off feeling to me.Welavish
fould13, we can't expect good emotion everytime, sometimes the artist wants to express bad emotions, or even to not express anything at all. In fact, is what you feel that counts. If you don't like it. That's ok, not a problem with this :) I personally find most of baroque music boring, and that's ok. But, this kind of music can't be understood if you try to listen to it using the same connections that you use to listen to tonal/classical music. It is like you trying to understand another language using the pattern of your native language. It simply doesn't work :)
Beautiful and funny and fun. There are stage directions that require singers to sing their part (and/or react to another singer) with a particular feeling or emotion (and sometimes "to yourself") as if these were actual conversations with intelligible words. It's funny to watch live, but it is at the same time serious; Ligeti means it when he calls these "Adventures"; these are adventures in sound as well as in *meaning*. ua-cam.com/video/7CzBBhrM2EA/v-deo.html When the Sop and Alt look at the Bar in astonishment, that theatrical moment is written in the score.
Just a bunch of loud, random noise, typical of ligeti where he is so musically incompetent that he cannot make music. Whose fans are a good way to know who is musically competent and who is not, if you listen to this garbage, you don't like music, you like your emotional reaction to sound.
"you like your emotional reaction to sound" I think there can be some research in psychology filed about this statement, so you don't need to do bad philosophy.
Oh, I absolutely do know. I know that your entire perception if music and praise of someone as incompetent as ligeti is entirely rooted in religion. You fail to see music as music, only as an object of belief.
@@Whatismusic123 I didn't said anything about Ligeti and I don't care to talk with you about his competence. I said that your observation "you don't like music, you like your emotional reaction to sound" is something scientifically researched so at this point I don't care about observations but science.
In 1975 my organ prof demonstrated this piece to me on a large Schlicker organ -- it blew a fuse in the rectifier!
When this piece premiered in Gothenburg, the organ literally caught fire! It couldn't handle the requirements, so had to be rebuilt, and after one year the piece REALLY premiered 😃
Awesome!
This piece is the literal definition of "pulling out all the stops."
All the pipes* 😜
A little "tutti"
Es kommt aus einer anderen Welt... Ich bedanke Sie ganz herzlich, weil Sie eine so grosse Arbeit gemacht haben, dieses Stück auszuführen.
I love how static this piece feels.
Wonderful composition, excellent performance, great organ! Danke, Herr Danksagmüller!
lach ...du verstehst nix davon armer wixer
how I LOVE this piece!!! As fresh and compelling and dramatic now as ever. SOO helpful to see the score! Brilliant performance : )
This stuff is so radical it will sound fresh 1000 years from now.
Prodigious piece! And wonderful interpretation, using all subtleties of the organ timber, with an incredible variety of colours and textures. At 4'50'' for instance, you would swear to hear a crowd whispering.
Sound design through extreme polyphony. This man was decades ahead of his time. Predating even the granular pioneers such as Truax.
I heard Ligeti actually wrecked the first Organ he tried to perform this on.
It straight up caught fire.
ha ha see my comment above.
Yes, I've heard this piece is the Organ Killer (but mm.. I mean.. worth it?)
it happened in a rehearsal. the insurance company refused to pay because the investigation found that a fuse had been replaced with an insufficient wire connection, which caused the electrical system to overload and start a fire. not surprising considering how the piece starts out.
Mans journey into madness! "Some places are like people, Some SHINE and some don't"! "I guess you could say the Overlook Hotel here has something almost like "SHINING"! Awesome music!
G.Ligeti composition it's building on several levels of sound and begins to take shape.
Jeez the bit which begins with the subbass at 4:05 is the scariest piece of music I've ever heard....
hah, I was at a concert yesterday where they played this piece, and i imagined similar images! = ) how interesting
Viscerally enjoyable!
From then I am listening Ligeti
Love how the notation is just these thick, ominous, black lines, then it gets to the 8:30 mark and it's like hit all the keys that's right all of them not even at the same time just slap your hands aaaaalll over the keyboard. And then you get the Fun Squiggles!
sehr schöNE UND SPANNENDE REALISATION ! Bravo !
Vielen Dank!
stunning!
Don't listen to this if you're on drugs or have insomnia. The dissonant "beating" and oscillation comes in and out in such a weird way that it really makes you feel like you're falling out of your body. So disorienting. I'm checking out and coming back tomorrow to make sure this song isn't actually demon possession or some kind of "sunken place" hypnosis.
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@@mememanfresh Yeah he died.
@@circlingourfate9708💀💀💀
inspiring af, thanks
Rumour has it that they woke up Al-Quaida prisoners in the middle of the night with this piece of music at 100 dB in Guantanamo.
Wtf 😂
... Maravilhosa Obra Musical Contemporânea * VOLUMINA* ... !!! ... Do Meu Querido e Genial Mestre ... GYORGY LIGETI ... !!! ... Dedico - a Hoje a São Valentim ... E a Todos Os Namorados e Enamorados ... !!! ... (( *** Convencidos *** ))
Belíssima obra contemporânea!
New to me. I would now hear this as a predecessor to Xenakis' "Gmeeoorh." A delayed response to the suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising by the Soviets? That would serve even further as inspiration for Xenakis' reaction to what was going on in Greece in the late 1960s early 1970s.
Mesmerizing!
Shmezmerizing...
And then Stanley Kubrick walked in
Love the pièce but despise you fuckers to have it interrupted by pubs ! What a disgrace !
cool stuff !!!
Xenakis's scored a work call "Silver Apples of the Moon" some time in the mid '60s. Part of the soundscape was the recording of a 707 takeoff. It was published on the Vox label. I doubt if a CD was offered for sale.
you're possibly thinking of Morton Subotnick :-)
Thank you Keith C. Yes that was Subotnick. I purchased the vinyl in 1969. Strange sounding stuff. My son took with him when he left for New York pax Max R.
Heavier than any heavy metal
Absolutely.
Indeed. ..
My words, sir. Me myself as a diehard but open minded metal-head got absolutely blown away when I heard this master piece for the first time - just a few minutes ago, during an inaugural online conert of the new great Riegel organ from Gothenburg, Sweden. And I really hope one day I get to hear and feel it live!
@@ladislavmalak444 That is so cool, Volumina premiered in Gothenburg (my town, by the way), but not after the organ had to be repaired after catching fire(!!) during the first attempt of playing Volumina 😀 True story. Ligeti spent a lot of time in Sweden, and particularly, I believe, in Gothenburg.
@@ulfingvar1 Wow, now I am very jealous, I wish I lived anywhere near! :) And I would definitely appreciate more detail about that Volumina sparked fire/repair story - and if you do not want to disclose it here, then in a private message, please. Also, Gothenburg is very dear to me not only because of the organ, but also because that was the town, where the ice-hockey team of my country Slovakia has won its first and only world champions title. ;)
Fantastic - I wonder if there is a english edition of the score!
I found this: www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Ligeti-Gyorgy-Volumina-English-version/632818
@@fxdmuller many thanks will get the local lit and Phil(Newcastle upon tyne) to buy a copy, unfortunately the UK council library service has been decimated by our conservative government
9:07 sounds like speech put through a midi converter
My friend: bro try dmt with me
Me: fine
Me 0:02, sees gods face
Great
Dude predicted converting wav to midi
Wonderful comment
Interesting. I am just wondering who would dare to make a tutorial on how to play this😅
Fascinante
Was this just 1920's black midi?
wow!
The tempo was a little fast...
A 15-minute horror movie should be made to this music. Maybe "I have no mouth but I must scream", animated.
I was only able to play this after I transposed it to a more comfortable key...
Hol vagyunk? nemtom hova kerültem...
This isn’t your average organ music. No, my friends, this is something much deeper, more spiritual,, much heavier hitting. If you don’t like it, please leave. This music isn’t for the faint of heart.
The faint of heart look for 'spiritual' 'deep' things, because their intelligence cannot exchange for their emotions due to their incredible stupidity, where all you find in music is the 'feeling' and 'emotions' not realizing that the emotions are just a way for the stupid to rationalize what they don't understand
I am talking about you.
Where can we find the complete score?
No need for a score, just hold down every note...
There is a score in fact. and it's quite precise.
Seriously one of those pieces YOU HAVE TO BE at the Church to hear it.
There's no score as such. The diagrams in the video give an approximation of what should be played, but the actual notes played are up to the organist. So different organists can give very different performances.
"The diagrams in the video" is the Score!
It is not a conventional musical score, but it is still the Score of the piece.
Yes, it is called a score.
리게티의 오르간곡 ‘볼루미나’-> 음향음악(음색음악)이고, 개별 선율을 촘촘하게 겹쳐 거대한 음향층을 형성함
MZ/X jelentkezz, jelentkezz!
Itt Mz/x!
you cant hear the low notes a la GARDEN PARTY UMMAGUMMA PINK FLOYD subliminal
what does the projection say?
the projection is the graphic score - it indicates the pitch, range, density, colour, loudness and tempo of the music.
@@fxdmuller Thanks, nice performance man
@@rednmasgamas Thank you!
🎵🎵🎵👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🌹
needs more cowbell
@@chronochromie772 man of culture, I see
Deffo some Silent Hill vibe
Hmm work or ART or ArtWork OOoooooo pausa / stille / Quaa waaaa waaa
The atonal equivalent of Charlemagne Palestine, huh? Peace.
Blanquear esta aberración sonora no puede ser sino equivalente de hacer apología del terrorismo contra el arte. Lástima que no hubiese encontrado mejor término en una hoguera...
Varèse is right: music is organized sound. No organization? Not music.
Unless somebody can bring a compelling case that there is structure here (we're talking beats, measures, chords), this is a collection of unsettling noises. Suggesting otherwise is like comparing a bush rustling at night to a nocturne. Sure, it may make you feel frightened or relaxed - but it's not music.
Silence anime girl,I'm enjoying this piece!
There are more types of structure than just beats, measures, and chords.
Also the score is literally in the video lol
@UCMlzno5i6DQQjM617nxYCvw this is just sound and noise you stupid moron, it has nothing to compare with what we have always deemed as music, if you take this piece and put it next to a work of beethoven, there is nothing similar except the use of noise, and beethoven makes music, and if this doesn't have anything in common with that, then it is not music.
quoting Varese of all people to diss Ligeti is a strange take to say the least lol (Ligeti was one of the greatest master of all time at organizing sound, he is one of the most rigourous composer there is imho)
@@thefxbip315 the illusion of organization does not hide randomness.
This seems like those paintings of something horrible that people call good art. If it isn't nice to listen to, then what is it good for?
It can be nice for others (like me, and other people), you don't listen this kind of music with the same expectations of traditional music. If you try to find a melody, or a rhythm, or even an harmony in the tonal sense. You will be disappointed, and see yourself lost. This is about texture and timbre. (sorry for some spelling errors, i'm not a native english speaker) .
But does it express good emotion? Or is it just a fascinating pattern, like a fractal? I find it boring for most of the time, because there isn't much variety. Also, the discorded tones give an off feeling to me.Welavish
this is the progenitor of post modern experimental music (autechre, tim hecker)
fould13, we can't expect good emotion everytime, sometimes the artist wants to express bad emotions, or even to not express anything at all. In fact, is what you feel that counts. If you don't like it. That's ok, not a problem with this :) I personally find most of baroque music boring, and that's ok. But, this kind of music can't be understood if you try to listen to it using the same connections that you use to listen to tonal/classical music. It is like you trying to understand another language using the pattern of your native language. It simply doesn't work :)
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Repulsive and disgusting
Beautiful and funny and fun. There are stage directions that require singers to sing their part (and/or react to another singer) with a particular feeling or emotion (and sometimes "to yourself") as if these were actual conversations with intelligible words. It's funny to watch live, but it is at the same time serious; Ligeti means it when he calls these "Adventures"; these are adventures in sound as well as in *meaning*. ua-cam.com/video/7CzBBhrM2EA/v-deo.html When the Sop and Alt look at the Bar in astonishment, that theatrical moment is written in the score.
Idiotic and non_argumented comment. Useless
@@frednicolas3811 Preferences don't need to be argumented.
your mom
Your reaction to this music makes all art even more important.
Just a bunch of loud, random noise, typical of ligeti where he is so musically incompetent that he cannot make music. Whose fans are a good way to know who is musically competent and who is not, if you listen to this garbage, you don't like music, you like your emotional reaction to sound.
"you like your emotional reaction to sound"
I think there can be some research in psychology filed about this statement, so you don't need to do bad philosophy.
@@Qazwdx111 wtf are you even trying to say in that broken english?
@@Whatismusic123 that you dont know what you are talking about
Oh, I absolutely do know. I know that your entire perception if music and praise of someone as incompetent as ligeti is entirely rooted in religion. You fail to see music as music, only as an object of belief.
@@Whatismusic123 I didn't said anything about Ligeti and I don't care to talk with you about his competence. I said that your observation "you don't like music, you like your emotional reaction to sound" is something scientifically researched so at this point I don't care about observations but science.
Mesmerizing!!
Mesmerizing !!
LOL