Why 109 musicians ?

😍 Masterpiece

Well, I rediscovered a pre colonial Cherokee Settlement where generations of Cherokee people inhabited and lived and lived and appreciated what all they had and the land provided. Tools, art, of all type and stone carvings big to small. A bunch of blackened, burnt charred stones, all in the creek bed now coming out the banks as rain recently begin reveling something more and structures that once stood there and around. And a piece of land that’s a pasture luckily one horse and a donkey is all that stays in it, where Cherokee ancestors were laid to rest and well yes still inhabit the earth and land. And I can’t get intouch or find no one to check my findings to verify my claims and know it’s their Peoples guidance to see this amazing stuff and history and culture left behind and mostly forgotten till I bothered to look deeper and listen to things more than oh just coincidence nothing to note! This is IMPORTANT HISTORICAL CULTURAL THINGS HERE! Contact me here and perhaps I’ll can be connected with the proper authority on Native American preservation and protection of culture and heritage plus with the unique opportunity to owe this land outright as the Cherokee should cuase they kin folks buried up there now.

Unfathomable !

prog

This gave me goose bumps. It also "loosened" (for lack of a better term) my brain. An exquisite environment was created; marvelous.

IDK HOW DID I GET HERE BUT IT IS HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL

Really great, Xenakis' music is still so refreshing after some decades, and that's probably always the case when someone really thinks their stuff through and goes all in!

Post-apocalyptic Angst, entirely inhuman violence, the crushing & blind destruction of extreme natural processes in terms of earth quakes, vulcanic eruptions, and nothing of the constructive, creative and differentiating forces of nature. As far as humans are referred to, the perceptive listener gets associations with the mentality of the Kremlin and North Korea, serial killers, American policemen, etc. etc. - in short: purely materialistic energy far beyond human civilisation. With music as an art form this has nothing to do. We know that Xenakis often worked with mathematical structural processes, i.e. purely mechanistic processes. That was all an attempt to 'clean music' in the 20th century from 'those pretty bourgeois ideas' like 'expression' and 'beauty' and order; modernism was to a great extent based on a deep contempt for music and for art and for civilisation, hence the notorious break with the past. As such, Xenakis correctly offered an acoustic symbolism of the darkest sides of the last century - the most inhuman, destructive side. - Listeners who truly enjoy such works, would be advised to reflect both on their psychological condition and on the meaning of art in general.

That mastodontic crescendo reminds me a bit of the one that Thomas Adès later composed in the third movement of Asyla. An authentic ecstasy of rhythm.

Amazing work.

7:18 Steve Reich lawl. Or polyrhythm 🤔.

i'm really addicted to xenakis music.... dont want any one to help me.... :)

i love this beaut

this is just like john luther adams become river

How do you even start rehearsing this piece?

Que fait cet homme et qu'a dans sa main cette femme ?

To me, this is the audio rendition of Picasso's 'Guernica'. It also works to evoke the invasion of Ukraine - especially the screech of the 'harpies' of war progressing to the columns of tanks and the grad and howitzer volleys.

Was at Prom 19 and heard the BBC Symph (augmented to well over 100 players) do this. I still haven't recovered two days later. Still trying to rebuild my old ideas on music after it. This will remain a high point in music experience for the rest of my life.

hello yannis where are you , thou shall know that your spirit touched my soul for ever god bless you ..............................................(^///^)😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤

You could fill an entire horror movie with this piece. Excellent!

I tried to click on the link given to find out more about the image on the video and couldn’t get it to respond. What is the name of this image and who created it?

listening to iannis music is like solving a mathematical riddle

@3:50 that is some dark deep techno. Just discovered Xenakis via a documentary about Bob Moog.

Ogni musica "contemporanea" ha sempre faticato per imporsi.

Far more cheerful than Mahler.

so good!

Never heard this before...so interesting! Would have been a fun piece to play as French horn. This song makes you feel so uncomfortable, I love it.

Avril est le mois le plus cruel, il engendre Des lilas qui jaillissent de la terre morte, il mêle Souvenance et désir, il réveille Par ses pluies de printemps les racines inertes. April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

l entrée ressemble a psychose avec norman bates , des aspects flippants de l oeuvre de xenakis tant attirent tantôt répugnent ,,

At least better than Stockhausen.

Интересный пиздец

We stan

Psychosis theme...the whole version.

Try playing Xenakis's music at twice normal speed - it becomes much more musical. No I am not kidding. Played at that speed, this piece becomes quite amazing after (approximately) the seven minute mark. More emotional potency. (And less listening time.)

I shared this to my Facebook a couple of weeks ago. I described it as "a brutal, 15-minute, drunken orgy in sound and rhythm"; I love the shear power and drive of this piece!

Me I love kayak de mer and Michaud s dessins, quoique ça dépend du courant.

Sacre -> Ameriques -> Jonchaies

109 Musicians!!

This makes me so anxious in good way I love it

To heare this in Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie... was a shattering emotion!! I was sitted near a real colleague of him ....talk friendly to her... a very intellectual, serious und friedly woman. I synchronizised my breath totally to the music ... eyes closed... get deeep into the music, the rhythm... intensity... and cry for a long, long time ------ cause of the deep sadness of this music. Peoples beneath me ask me, if a feel right... ... Yes! I feel right! I have a bit understand the excessive power und cruelty of this music. It seems like a natural event! without advance warning.... not a nice concert event. Xenaxis hearing is for shocks, , disturbations, and tears.... THX for this extraordinary music!

So good.

LOL the poor modern composers can't compete with the likes of #Beethoven, #Dvorak, #Elgar, #Rachmaninov, and #Tchaikovsky, etc. So they don't even try to compose a melody, or music even. Dissonant nonsense by fraudsters.

Does anyone know what the name Jonchaies means?

I love how prolific Xenakis was. He's been my favorite for years, and I'm still discovering new pieces by him all the time (well, new to me). Never even heard of this piece prior to today, and it's an absolute masterpiece! WTF?

哦这吊诡的波斯音节！…

Now, who didn't think "Psycho" at 0:10? I saw the knife coming down!

where da orescuzzla bruvva i need ta see da orescay mayte

Lmao only elitist hippy pricks say they like this shit

Very strange. And a strange offering to come up on the "Up Next," after Bax's Tintagel. But that's all right. Different, but I think it's quite good. Never heard of this composer before. So thank you, KZbin algorithm.