György Ligeti, Bartok. anyone else?

Listen to the first 2 minutes.

Blown away!

ive been listening to a lot of Ligeti. im not a fan of classical music in general, but Ligeti  fits the bill for me. Ive tried most classical composer but found most classic too technical and complex and dense to a point where I just give up. the only classical ive always liked was either piano sonata or john cage minimalist stuff and some bartok.

any recomendations of other classical composers i may like?

also, 'clocks & clouds for 12 female voices and orchestra' (preferably not the youtube version, though. it's split into 2 parts, totally kills it)

some pretty interesting sounds @ the online ligeti tribute compilation as well: http://www.topher.fr/ligeti/

Don't know if it's going to be your cup of tea, but have you tried PendereckI? This is his 'hit song', but I'm more into his Requiems.

Or good old Glass?

Reich has a pretty high WATMM-level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_jwv2QMtAo

Arvo Part

No Morton Feldman yet? smh

https://soundcloud.com/pkokoras/conscious-sound

the ultimate 

godfather of drone: la monte young

I heard him on a college station a few years ago, early in the morning, was ashamed I went so long not knowing who he was

awesome thread btw

  On 12/14/2016 at 6:26 AM, Ayya Khema said:

Ligeti  fits the bill for me. 

He did for Kubrick as well, his use of Ligeti's music was my introduction to the composer, as I'm sure it was for many

Messiaen and Rautavaara are who you're looking for

Check out Messiaen's "preludes" and "trois petite leturgies"

And Rautavaara's "etudes" and "(1st) piano concerto"

I first heard Ligeti listening to Continuum while getting stupid high with two of my friends. We were laughing like madmen and one of them suddenly had that classic 'I'm way too high' look of absolute fear on their face midway through the piece. Good stuff.

  On 12/14/2016 at 2:53 PM, paranerd said:

I first heard Ligeti listening to Continuum while getting stupid high with two of my friends. We were laughing like madmen and one of them suddenly had that classic 'I'm way too high' look of absolute fear on their face midway through the piece. Good stuff.

 

https://youtu.be/1AJoyqbMv_I

Edit: great choon, tho

Moondog

Xenakis's electronic stuff

Maybe some John Adams counts?

There was a style of secular vocal music in the renaissance that was mostly by and about opium smokers and is really interesting but I only ever had it on old, unlabeled CD-Rs so I don't know what it's called.  If you can figure that out I highly recommend it.

  On 12/14/2016 at 4:59 PM, RSP said:

Moondog

Xenakis's electronic stuff

Maybe some John Adams counts?

 

There was a style of secular vocal music in the renaissance that was mostly by and about opium smokers and is really interesting but I only ever had it on old, unlabeled CD-Rs so I don't know what it's called. If you can figure that out I highly recommend it.

I was gonna recommend Xenakis and say that Bartok was an algorithmic composer (of the pen-and-paper sort)

Did nobody suggest Pauline Oliveros yet?

EDIT: I never personally got much in to Phill Niblock or Arthur Russell but I think you might like both of them, too.

EDIT again: and LaMonte Young!

also stimmung is one of the greatest works of music ever

cool. thanks everyone. will look at the recommendations!

seems I like 20th composers the most

certainly the most varied 

This thread should be called "how Hollywood usurped 20th century music"

Not sure Hollywood usurped la monte young or Morton Feldman but ok

  On 12/15/2016 at 6:23 PM, sheathe said:

This thread should be called "how Hollywood usurped 20th century music"

I mean sorta, but there's usually a non-arbitrary reason that certain stuff gets upvoted by culture such that it becomes more highly-visible...so for example with Ligeti and Bartok and Kubrick: I don't think it's *completely* arbitrary that more people know Bartok and Ligeti and Aaron Copland than (say) Harry Partch or Lutoslowsky or Tristan Murail.

Not everything can be equally 'visible' so of course there are gonna be filters for what sifts to the top, and I don't think it's necessarily 'usurping' or 'hegemonic' that Hollywood would influence what composers or pieces are more highly-visible than others.

I bet the 43 tone octave will show up in Stranger Things season 2!