The Bad Plus covering the fucking Rite of Spring

yeah he actually composed the piano score first - then moved to the orchestral instrumentation.

  On 5/4/2011 at 4:31 AM, GORDO said:

  On 5/3/2011 at 4:37 AM, Wall Bird said:

  On 5/2/2011 at 11:00 PM, GORDO said:

lol i thought they were covering the emo band.

 

What made you decide that they weren't?

(I assume this was in reference to the track I posted. If not, carry on.)

 

 

i was thinking of this band:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge8ucvLYLRc

  On 5/4/2011 at 4:24 PM, encey said:

Edit: I think you kind of lose the impressionism of the piece without the timbral contrast of the different instruments playing the different 'animals.'

What?

  On 5/5/2011 at 1:29 AM, jim said:

  On 5/4/2011 at 4:24 PM, encey said:

Edit: I think you kind of lose the impressionism of the piece without the timbral contrast of the different instruments playing the different 'animals.'

 

What?

maybe he's thinking of carnival of the animals?

i should make an 'art music' thread for us high minded elite

says the guy with the philip glass avatar. trust me, 'music in 12 parts' isn't your average minimalist composition

yeah, no shit.....

get through the well-tuned piano and we'll talk.

it's too scary... if you're taking about La Monte Young. coincidentally I tried listening to it just last night and scared the shit out of myself. the alternate tunings are freakish.

  On 5/5/2011 at 6:22 AM, vamos scorcho said:

it's too scary... if you're taking about La Monte Young. coincidentally I tried listening to it just last night and scared the shit out of myself. the alternate tunings are freakish.

Just sounds like a harmonic series on D.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpKcQZQl2Nw

This is freakier.

I think it's tuned to an E flat a couple octaves below human hearing. But Young shaved each hammer down to assure that it only hits one string in the same spot every time. It isn't your average prepared piano.

  On 5/4/2011 at 6:43 PM, dr lopez said:

yeah he actually composed the piano score first - then moved to the orchestral instrumentation.

That's crazy. It'd be like Berlioz doing the Symphonie Fantastique on piano first.

  On 5/5/2011 at 2:31 AM, dr lopez said:

  On 5/5/2011 at 1:29 AM, jim said:

  On 5/4/2011 at 4:24 PM, encey said:

Edit: I think you kind of lose the impressionism of the piece without the timbral contrast of the different instruments playing the different 'animals.'

 

What?

maybe he's thinking of carnival of the animals?

I thought the weird groaning, bleating and shrieking sounds of the orchestral instruments were meant to be imitating animals.

  On 5/9/2011 at 6:39 PM, encey said:

  On 5/4/2011 at 6:43 PM, dr lopez said:

yeah he actually composed the piano score first - then moved to the orchestral instrumentation.

That's crazy. It'd be like Berlioz doing the Symphonie Fantastique on piano first.

 

  On 5/5/2011 at 2:31 AM, dr lopez said:

  On 5/5/2011 at 1:29 AM, jim said:

  On 5/4/2011 at 4:24 PM, encey said:

Edit: I think you kind of lose the impressionism of the piece without the timbral contrast of the different instruments playing the different 'animals.'

 

What?

maybe he's thinking of carnival of the animals?

I thought the weird groaning, bleating and shrieking sounds of the orchestral instruments were meant to be imitating animals.

It is originally about the ritual sacrifice of a virgin girl in some primitive society. But I associate it with dinosaurs and stuff because of Fantasia.

i always thought some of the flutes and whatnot near the buildup sounded like birds. or just 'nature' in general. i think that a lot after reading about messiaen

Stravinsky pretty much wrote everything at the piano his entire life, same with ravel and many others. I dunno, I guess there are bits that sound a bit animal-like due to the instrumentation but that kinda cheapens it for me. The virgin dancing herself to death is literal enough for one piece IMO.

oopsie!

WE STILL WIV U

EDIT: WUV