Today I learned some information about Alvin Lucier.This is a really modern piece.The composer sits and describes what will happen, and then it happens.No melody,no speed,....no any classic music elements.But it is also loved by many people.This form is really interesting.In my feeling that the composer what to a kind of artistic conception.In classic music,we always want to hear the melody and style.We never listened this kind of piece.This is a new form for us.It is a challenge of our triditional aesthetics.There were many different feel after I heard this piece.Sometimes I really don't like the piece,and sometimes I can have a new cognition of music
Today I learned some information about Alvin Lucier.This is a really modern piece.The composer sits and describes what will happen, and then it happens.No melody,no speed,....no any classic music elements.But it is also loved by many people.This form is really interesting.In my feeling that the composer what to a kind of artistic conception.In classic music,we always want to hear the melody and style.We never listened this kind of piece.This is a new form for us.It is a challenge of our triditional aesthetics.There were many different feel after I heard this piece.Sometimes I really don't like the piece,and sometimes I can have a new cognition of music.
Today I learned some information about Alvin Lucier.This is a really modern piece.The composer sits and describes what will happen, and then it happens.No melody,no speed,....no any classic music elements.But it is also loved by many people.This form is really interesting.In my feeling that the composer what to a kind of artistic conception.In classic music,we always want to hear the melody and style.We never listened this kind of piece.This is a new form for us.It is a challenge of our triditional aesthetics.There were many different feel after I heard this piece.Sometimes I really don't like the piece,and sometimes I can have a new cognition of music.
wikipedia is a very common, but also very useful website if one wants to search a famous composer like Elliot.
Here is the address:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Carter
Here're information about his biography, when and where he was born, his education when he was young and his styples and works. You can easily get almost all the basic information about him. He wrote a lot compositions for chamber music, as we have listened his string quartet No3, we can tell he is a tradtional composer. He never used electronic techniques, and he used traditional techniques of playing for the instrument, and the instruments themselves, are traditional too.
Here I want to introduce an intersting website:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/brian_ferneyhough.html
You will find some quotes of Brian after opening the link. It is really intersting to read some of his own words so that we know his idea of music and composition better.
I really like his "If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.", and I think that is why he always be brave enough to challange the limitation.
Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception.
Today I learned some information and knowledge of Luigi Nono in class.Luigi Nono is a famous Italian modern composer.A communist party member.His style is avant-garde and post-Romantic music, a combination of intense lyricism. His best work:<<Intolleranza 1960>>is a strong left-wing ideology piece.
After I listened the <<Il Canto Sospeso>>,I felt this is a piece which about the war.It express the Respect for life, for humanity's Call.A kind of desire for life.Nono has his own understand of the 'merica'and the'ugly'.Nono's basic concept of writing is to mixed a lot of tone colour .Not only have the melody, harmony, polyphony and so on.
Wang Han
The word "Gruppen" (German) means groups in English, it is written for three orchestras. A large group of 109 players is divided into three orchestral units, each with its own conductor, which are deployed in a horseshoe shape to the left, front, and right of the audience. The spatial separation was principally motivated by the compositional requirement of keeping simultaneously played yet musically separate passages distinct from one another, but led to some orgiastic passages in which a single musical process passes from one orchestra to another.a traditional twelve-tone row is used as its basis,This is a symmetrical all interval row, in which the first half consists of the intervals of a descending major third, rising perfect fourth, descending minor third, descending minor second, and ascending major second.
I think it is a good idea to listen the piece with the score, will help you to understand the "structures" better. I was thinking why he called it structures, is there any special structures in the piece? Because from what I listened, I can hardly tell the structure of the music, I try to predict what is gonna happen in the next bar. it is an intersting piece that full of vitality, sounds like two kids are playing with each other,one runing after another.
04 Sep
Wang Han says:Today I learned some information and knowledge of Luigi Nono in class.Luigi Nono... Today I learned some information and knowledge of Luigi Nono in class.Luigi Nono is a famous Italian modern composer.A communist party member.His style is avant-garde and post-Romantic music, a combination of intense lyricism. His best work:<<Intolleranza 1960>>is a strong left-wing ideology piece.
After I listened the <<Il Canto Sospeso>>,I felt this is a piece which about the war.It express the Respect for life, for humanity's Call.A kind of desire for life.Nono has his own understand of the 'merica'and the'ugly'.Nono's basic concept of writing is to mixed a lot of tone colour .Not only have the melody, harmony, polyphony and so on.
Wang Han
Today I learned some information and knowledge of Luigi Nono in class.Luigi Nono is a famous Italian modern composer.A communist party member.His style is avant-garde and post-Romantic music, a combination of intense lyricism. His best work:<<Intolleranza 1960>>is a strong left-wing ideology piece.
After I listened the <<Il Canto Sospeso>>,I felt this is a piece which about the war.It express the Respect for life, for humanity's Call.A kind of desire for life.Nono has his own understand of the 'merica'and the'ugly'.Nono's basic concept of writing is to mixed a lot of tone colour .Not only have the melody, harmony, polyphony and so on.
Wang Han
It is a creative idea that there're just C, E and E flat in a composition. I realised the composer concerntrate oninstrumentation, register, dynamics,articulation, duration, attack poin, and tuning more than melody, ryhthm and harmony. Actually there is no clear melody, and I would rather call it effect rather than harmony, duration rather than tempo.
I like the tention of the piece, all the pizzicado, percusion sound just created the right sense of the composition.
A nother crazy piece of new music. It sounds like a incidental music of a horror movie, especially when the big sound comes sunddenly--- seems there is no logic that where people play soft or loud. Another thing is, it is not only A tonor, but also no regular beat of it. It sounds like a improvisational piece that people just made it up on the stage. Actually we composed something like it during our improvisational class, t really sounds like John cage...
However, certainly there is a structure of it though it might sound like people perform a peice whatever notes they'd like to play. But it is kind of hard for me to find the climax, because the high or loud notes just come out without any logic. And I am not too sure what different mood between hs compostions, because weird is the only word I could use to describe it.
I have to say that, it is tough for one to finish listening of the why patterns AWAKE without understanding his music. But the question is, how do we understand his music? Most of us have used to enjoy tonal music, and the way of understang new music is certainly different. When you listen to Beethoven, you will be able to analyse the structure of the composition if your musical theory is good enough, but for most of the new music compositions, the A tonal pieces, it is the effect that arracts audiences. But here, in why patterns, the "patterns" of the music changes gradually, the ryhthm is complex, and the "melody" is similar, which means you may get lost really easilly.
I think It is not music itself, but the ideas of how he composed the piece, eventhough we may not like it, but we can still be inspirited from his ideas, his own conception of music and his creativity.
One of Lucier's most important and best-known works is I am sitting in a room (1969), in which Lucier records himself narrating a text, and then plays the recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Since all rooms have a characteristic resonance (e.g., between a large hall and a small room), the effect is that certain frequencies are gradually emphasised as they resonate in the room, until eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself. The recited text describes this process in action - it begins "I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice...", and concludes with, "I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have," referring to his own stuttering.