Ballet Mécanique (George Antheil) _ Ictus Ensemble

[@TheMusicHistorian]

I'm so happy somebody has performed - and shared - a more authentic version of the original, rather than just the more mundane 1953 revision. Thank you!

[@kgroveringer03]

Knowing that this piece is going to be a century old next year is absolutely astonishing, this is absolutely radical music for its time and still lives up to that status today. Amazing performance :)

[@saintjohncourtenay8303]

George Antheil was a musical genius who was at least a full century ahead of his time who also coinvented the most important radio frequency patent of the mid-20th century. Amazing musical performance synced with midi! Outstanding!!! Well done!!!

[@MegaCirse]

Exquis, dynamique, frais et élégant. C'est le point de confluence où un lyrisme profond, des influences anciennes et une riche harmonie vous font vous sentir caressé par la paix de la nature et de ses sonorités ! L’impact merveilleux de la pensée et de l’ouïe !

[@JohnPietaro]

A beautiful version of this amazing piece of music. Here is the pain, the promise, the brutality of the industrial revolution, the core of capitalism all contained in this expanded percussion ensemble piece.

[@ProfessorPille]

Antheil was the PT Barnum (or Alice Cooper) of the 1920s avant garde. You're reading way too much into the music. Check out his deliriously self-promoting autobiography, "Bad Boy of Music." He was having a lot of fun being shocking and outrageous.

[@jslasher1]

Once heard, never forgotten.

[@vjAAmati]

Un excellent souvenir d'une soirée futuriste concoctée par l'opéra de Lille !

[@ohoto3896]

This is performance art #1.

[@machida5114]

quite good ...

[@joepeho]

Haha, 3:57 when the guy's fan stick breaks.

[@ronaldocastro2011]

Theatrically exciting. It makes me remember a lot of movies and authors: Hitchcock and Stravinsky for exemplo. Shoemberg also.

[@wantbearhug]

Fabulous! Incredible!

Fascinante, adoro o som dos xilofones!

[@galas062]

danke!!!

[@kph11863]

Mssr. Plouvier, Are you the gentleman at the table to the right with the table of buzzer sounds? If not, who then is your fellow performer there? I have heard this work in the various versions, all of them fascinating. Kudos to your ensemble for this rare performance.

[@kph11863]

Ah, now I see you. Thank you kindly for this information. Being a musician myself, I like to figure out who all the players might be.

[@ronaldocastro2011]

I think your work will Boa e very appreciated by Débora Cocker. Do you know her?

[@alexpauloteixeiradesouza370]

Lindo solo de xilofone.

[@ohoto3896]

a comparison to krafetwerk

[@PaterCurro]

Ruido...se puede hacer mejor?..y tanto. Esto no es música, esto es un dolor.