Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis (Spectral View)

[@SweetSweetWaldo]

I'm a huge Xenakis fan, and that's the way I like it!

[@sopainstantanea4887]

my history teacher brought me here... definetly not dissapointed!!! this is something else!!!

[@TheMahjohng]

After recently hearing this on an acoustic channel that I listen to (Sofar Sounds), I was a bit intrigued as it was music that I can't really appreciate but there's clearly some substance to it. Shame on the people dismissing this as garbage. I'm not saying that I like it but the description clearly shows that there's an art and talent to music like this. Music doesn't have to be something to your taste. If music is truly 'bad' it would be because it had no talent or effort put into it (*cough* some modern pop music which is more of a money-making industry *cough*). This clearly doesn't fall into that category.

[@Vincent-pz3bc]

yeah, writing random notes on a sheet requires so much skill

[@Vincent-pz3bc]

random would sound the same as this.

[@Vincent-pz3bc]

Monkey wrench i listen to the street noise so avantgarde. Its not random noise the drivers know where they wanna go

[@brokendawn2625]

It's not garbage, it's pure chaos

[@kaimarmalade9660]

It's like A Day in The Life but the whole song is the orchestra part. Love it.

[@organist2012]

Xenakis was a genius. This music is so beautiful,. His techniques are only used to create very powerfull, emotional music.

[@damianofonti]

This is the right music for a party

[@Abraxas_90]

damiano fonti yes, for a suicide party

[@ghoshneh]

This is the sound I hear in my head in the next 12 hours after partying; after I down 10 pints, 10 shots, and half a bottle of vodka! So, you're not that far off!

[@josecarlosmonizdacunha8542]

@@Abraxas_90 ¥X žż

[@deannapostlewait6839]

When a composer comes from a scientific background, the resulting composition isn't always great in the traditional sense. It never fails to be incredibly interesting, though. I respect and enjoy his work a lot.

[@kyletomlinson5365]

Respect, maybe Enjoy? eh

[@joneszilla7087]

+Deanna Postlewait I don't know what you're talking about. This stuff is great. It's genius. This is definitely AMAZING in the non-traditional sense.

[@CeeLow53]

Yes, experimental music lovers will thoroughly be interested in his craft.

[@johnappleseed8369]

Deanna Postlewait Scientific? you're barking up the wrong pseudo-intellectual tree, all music is mathematical. but Xenakis isn't "mathematical music" in the pragmatic sense, it's just (incredible) music that has incorporated certain ideas into SOME of the early works. you're not listening to a mathematical generated piece, you're just listening to a piece, goddamn it

[@alexchetverik3982]

Yes, I agree. I There's a symbiotic and quite beautiful relationship between the arts and sciences, too, that is often delineated and diluted by traditionalist attitudes. Alexander von Humboldt and Goethe are two that brought that notion to a wider audience.

[@timmungenast]

I love this bold and challenging music, and especially the beautiful soundwave video that goes with it. Thanks for this!

[@cesarvidelac]

It's interesting to read the reactions to this piece. This music is based on advanced mathematics models, statistics mainly, concerning probability. It's like a science experiment beeing measured. I've read the same reactions to recorded sounds from the Solar system planets radio signals ("planet songs"). Why are you so scared? This is the closest to the actual sound of the Universe. It's awsome!

[@Bnjolly]

A while back I was babysitting my roommate's six-year-old daughter and she asked me to play some "scary" music for her. I played this. Within a minute and a half she was crying, her hands to her ears, begging me to turn it off. How's that for a musical review! (I love this piece, by the way).

[@HELLENIGMA]

great to see this video! Vangelis, Xenakis some of the greatest composers

[@KPenceable]

I like it, it sounds beautiful without ever demanding any particular response from the listener. There's no cliche's that are typically used to signal a specific kind of response. It reminds me of being out in nature and listening to the sounds.

[@KPenceable]

It doesn't feel like I'm listening to music that is trying to manipulate me into specific emotional responses (which I'm into but need a breath of fresh air sometimes yknow), it's someone creating a genuine experience for me which demands nothing in particular from me.

[@imDezrt]

@@KPenceable Meditative for sure. But what does 'meditative' really mean anyways? Not exciting, not relaxing.

[@deathmetalhell]

i love the beautiful spectrogram, a wonderful touch! i love watching music like this!

[@gortaina]

I´m listening this spotify by random some music. My first impression on Xenakis´s wok, GENIUS!

[@aarongtr180]

I actually like this. Extremely dark and atmospheric. Reminds me of certain metal bands like Deathspell Omega, for example.

[@Tiobranlotin]

cuz it's mathemathical sound . geometry . law of universe . science speaks . "sorcellry"

[@searchfgold6789]

My favorite Xenakis piece and one of my few favorite orchestral pieces.

[@augustineleudar]

Just because something is painful to listen too and doesn't pander to the masses doesn't automatically mean it is possessed of profundity, novelty and integrity.

[@kylej.whitehead-music309]

From the very little I understand about the methods Xanakis used I would say it has a good deal of novelty. I would also say that by that same token it is decidedly not profound, as any emotions that might be felt by the listener are a side effect because they couldn't possibly have factored into the composing process. All in all it's more 20th century post modernist madness and when it comes to that you either like it or you don't. I like Webern, for example, but I'm pretty apathetic about Schoenberg (although his ideas about tonality reek of post modernist charlatanism). That's strange because at the core their music is composed through very similar methods. Modern music is weird, man.

[@DEEPYANN]

Thanks a lot babylonianman for those awesome comments. I discovered Xenakis a while ago and loved since then what he does, now I start to understand a bit better the why thanks to you. If you have any idea where i can learn more about it, please do!

[@TheKaraider]

now imagine jack nicholson foaming at the mouth hacking through a bathroom door with a hatchet with a black and white camera filter with no sound effects, imagine it, feel it,

[@thereisnospectrum]

No doubt Penderecki was influenced by Xenakis

[@davidwright8432]

Check your preconceptions and prejudices at the door. Hard work, but well worth it. Really does repay a second and subsequent listen!

[@franciscodls3]

1:42 Part scared me... Amazing... Simply amazing...

[@apazeia]

Audible frequenices will impact our ears and elicit emotional responses. Film sountracks do just this. The capacity, not to understand or define, but to let a series of sounds permeate your being and generate an emotion, transport you, that's the soul and purpose of music. The merit here is the selection of non-standard formulas for this purpose. Does this composition not elicit an emotion in you? Perhaps your deaf, not in the ears but in your capacity to open up...

[@ΠαρατηρητήςΠιθήκων]

the word "metastasis" is greek and we use it mostly to describe the phase when the cancer is spreading into the body. pretty optimistic and uplifting.

[@resurrectionx5952]

just like the nazis perverted the svastika. It have nothing to do with its true symbolism and meaning nor in case of metastasis or the svastika, its just only that your brain could not associate it with other idiom beside that, what been programed with.

[@c.e.c]

Incredible piece, especially the beginning with all the glissandi. Thanks for posting!

[@Tenshihan-Quinn]

BRAINGASM!!!!! I Love this! It's everything I'm into - all wrapped up in ONE! Many thanks to my Audio-Brother, "229095" for sending me incredible video!

[@andrewkovnat]

THX Deep Note, anyone?

[@edchocolate2407]

Amazing...... I seem to have read that this and the Brussels Pavilion have much in common. Also, well worth reading 'Conversations With Xenakis' by Bálint András Varga if anyone is more intrigued by this fascinating man. Gets my vote for most influential 20thC composer .....ha ha, please discuss.

[@rachelseagroatt]

I first came across this piece about two years ago. I have tried to listen to the whole thing about three times and have got further and further as I have. This time I got to1:44. See you next year. Sincerely, a terrified Rachel.

[@sebastianzaczek]

I think it would be more appealping visually if you took a logarhythmic scale for the frequency representation, rather than a linear scale, as the Top half doesn't get used at all with the linear scale...

[@jiolsmolimassunemo]

this is an excellent video... thank you for posting this

[@sarcartistik4110]

I love this very intriguing music, it would be perfect for a psychological horror movie :D

[@rocktothebone91]

Terribly wonderful :p

[@mediumsizedcat7850]

i don't remember the THX intro being this long

[@miketm8200]

THX sound actually based on Xenakis method

[@almaguerjoel]

Thank you for posting this video. I love the Music.

[@corinnechicheportiche8072]

great mix between Ligeti, Stravinsky and The Shining ost. I saw mighty Nicholson for the whole song

[@katherinelayden2910]

Soundtrack to being born.

[@goodtwitch]

This is excellent. Thanks for posting it.

[@theo9952]

it really helps to appreciate the music more.

[@rohiogerv22]

I'm not sure how the introduction to this could be construed as cold or emotionless. It meanders for a little bit around the middle of the piece, sure. But, although Xenakis based his music on mathematics, he clearly injected emotion into it. If you can't tell the difference between this and a robot tastelessly inserting pitches and lengths into a timeline, then you need to listen more.

[@RuthTrent]

Great video, thx. Hey how did you create this video with the scrolling line? I have a graphic score that I'd like to do this with! Thx for any help

[@mocktheturtle5910]

Where am I? ;-;

[@mocktheturtle5910]

I'm so scared.....

[@mate6mty]

the woodshop 101

[@MadamTampini]

This is excellent! Thanks for sharing.

[@guacanagari]

Este video es un aporte inmenso a la comprension de esta musica.

[@jonabirdd]

Every newborn thing is born painfully into the world... and this is certainly very novel, especially for its time perhaps. It's a pity that some people have such a narrow view of music and seem to reject it outright just because it doesn't sound like what is traditionally conceived of as western classical music... I love the video's 'spectral view' of the music which shows how much rich structure there really is in this supposed 'garbage'....

[@jonabirdd]

+Jon Chuang As if music were just what you want it to be! You can call it anything you want, but anything infused with a structure capable of stimulating the mind is to my mind already worthwhile!

[@bolbasi]

+Jon Chuang so true. And that goes along way towards explaining how very disparate types of music can have all stimulate us in very different ways.

[@jamesvansant2177]

Yes Jon so true; BUT how to perceive the structure? I cannot hear it within these sounds. The 'music' seems to have no key, no organized tonality, therefore is it really music? I mean, Really? I am told by a music PhD and Professor that you must have the 'visual message' as well as the sounds to get the sense of it. But who keeps a Xenakis score at hand?

[@JosiahSCooper]

'We've come to the other shore! into eternal fire and ice!'

[@thefivespokewheels]

I listen to this to appear smart.

[@mariagvaramadze1524]

even in this way... you are smart... otherwise you wouldnt stand it..

[@johnappleseed8369]

Sindh then you're a fucking idiot, listen to music you like

[@widodomohammad8816]

fucking scumbag

[@jamesnewall6432]

weirdo!

[@nuthineatholl6434]

and... POTZREBIE

[@ChristopherFulkersonPhD]

Very important, perfect, thank you.

[@12copablo]

Poor sound quality, that piece is amazing in HD...

[@karoloandria]

@BagelBites48 the first partt is in H flat, the second part is on J double flat locran

[@SampiEsotericism]

Nice work!

[@KSOLTS]

Outstanding.

[@danielstevan26]

@AxelLeJeff Trust me, many people don't, he used to play with algorithmes, Iannis was too experimental, here are some enviromental sounds put in order, despite we missunderstood this, it makes sense, try to research for Stochastic Music

[@Meteotrance]

about the THX sound of 1983 it was a cover most inspired by the song "Loom" from YMO made in 1981. But i also agree that this "Metastasis" was the original inpiration of the Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruomi Hosono song.

[@lmaoyeetrawrxd]

We Greeks are so crazy, especially when it comes to art...

[@Markus_Breuss]

cool work

[@mathy4605]

The jumpscare at 1:04 sounds a lot like the intro/title to the Insidious movies

[@manimusicka2]

Talking about stochastic music is more appealing than listening to it.

[@dAtramt]

This is awesome!

[@twitchcoe]

Beautiful

[@theminechesser]

amazing piece

[@DrBoomy]

I guess what I trying to say is that this music is highly enjoyable. It sad that sounds that are so enjoyable and displeasing to the ear are sysmbolic of Einstein's veiw of space and time..... wait... I get it! I guess I hear it now; I hear how it could be symbolic of that. I understand. I guess with that understanding I get why this can be enjoyed.

[@whitesuns]

are you kidding? they sound amazing

[@imDezrt]

Do I hear some shepherd's tone action going on at the beginning?

[@jacobcracknell]

skanking out hard to this

[@susuonmars]

that's is the sound when my friend sings in the shower.

[@juampyjuarez]

beyond belief!

[@NitramZiarreh]

Excellent! What software did you use to create that spectrogram?

[@N0ISYLAND]

How do you create that image from the sound? I'd like to do that.

[@ForeignOnEarth]

i like the sublte jazz touch

[@Hurtdeer]

the best part about listening to these tracks off of youtube is reading all these comments by people who can't tell the difference between their music taste and an objective worldview of what qualifies music ugh

[@gustavoturm]

@robinschavoir FL Studio got a plugin called WaveCandy, it seems very similar. Search YT for "FL Studio 9: Wave Candy Guitar"

[@Timrath]

that was interesting, thank you!

[@vaiority]

i dont understand the science-math "drawing" the music nonsense but it sounds FUCKING AWESOME.

[@ScarletMacaw2013]

I recommend you 'Fuzzy nebulae' by Horacio Lavandera, composed with fuzzy logic theory and FM.

[@robinschavoir]

how did you make this representation?

[@gibsonrulezz]

Really interesting, thank you very much. .

[@MrsHyde84]

Xenakis almighty 🖤

[@mpoukanouka6622]

is this the unabomber's theme from the anime?

[@kylej.whitehead-music309]

Top 5 anime domestic terrorists.

[@richtomes]

What a quaint old expression - and the best thing about it from your point of view is it that it gives you the sensation of having delivered a profound truth without having had to use your brain or expressive abilities at all. Rather like this kind of adiabatic 'music'.

[@milodeus9360]

A la que locazo, como para un cortometraje

[@ThanosPapas]

@mehegama Για ποιο λόγο αυτό δεν είναι μουσική; Τι πρέπει να έχει κάτι για να θεωρείται μουσική;

[@MsLettucelady]

Love to see the score of this piece.

[@gusstuckey346]

Sounds kinda like a John Williams film score to me...

[@WhiteThundercloud]

🔥🔥🔥

[@tenloginjestwolny]

I like the triangle solo part

[@BigRed4231]

Wich key is this in?

[@FBurck]

I was just thinking that, so true

[@richtomes]

People rightly get annoyed when this kind of thing is held up as if it were somehow related to or equal to the great works of the 400 year old tradition of classical music. It belongs more appropriately with radical pop or jazz. The Jesus and Mary Chain for instance used to turn up all their amps and just have feedback for a whole 'song'. It was art of a kind. We should give this kind of stuff a new name - sonic theater, or sonic design, not to confuse it with the fine art of composition.

[@noah1130clawson]

I find this piece interesting, but the uploader's description of Xenakis compositional methods is way over my head :)

[@bawbe]

if you think that's complex try reading his books! :P basically, he tried to make music out of things that existed in the physical world not abstractions, as Debussy and the impressionists did, but actually represent physics sonically if I'm incorrect (music theoreticians and historians) please enlighten me and provide a better explanation!

[@Ithidet]

amazing.

[@XxironalexX666]

Here we have the top of epicness

[@kordinia]

i dont wonder - i have it seen in vienna - great genious

[@sergiova3498]

Genial....

[@MarkHamlin1]

Interesting sounds reminiscent of the old THX promo.

[@Waleedalfaris]

this is the best kanye west song

[@sarcartistik4110]

So funny, i laughed out loud xDD

[@Spailot]

Algo complejo y tenebroso!!!, sin centro tonal waw!!, me causa mucha curiosidad elq ue estubo pensando Xenakis al crear esto??? es sumamente compejo tratar de entender

[@edstug]

I never listened to something like that. It weird, but great! (:

[@MsLettucelady]

BTW, the video of the wave file is awesome for this precarious tune.

[@gustavoturm]

@BigRed4231 I guess this kind of music does not deal with the concept of key in the same way the music you know.

[@dawoof]

yo could aslo use Isotope RX Complete audio resoration and spectrum soft. try before you buy tho ;D