Ivan Wyschnegradsky - Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

[@peling8307]

this is amazing! and that synchronization! I bet I would be late 5 - 6 milliseconds

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

This has the same feel of dreaminess skirting right on the edge of nightmare as in some of his _Twenty-four Preludes in All the Tones of the Chromatic Scale Diatonicized with Thirteen Sounds_ -- especially VII. Having said what I said above, the different pieces are definitely not the same: This one is the industrial-strength version.

[@dominiquemanchon9914]

On peut lire la lettre suivante de la Société Musicale Indépendante aux autorités douanières françaises, datée du 7 mai 1929 (source: Manuel Cornejo, Maurice Ravel-l'Intégrale, lettre numéro 2238) : " Le Comité de la Société Musicale Indépendante estime qu'il y a le plus grand intérêt à laisser entrer le piano spécialement construit par Monsieur Wyschnegradsky, piano à quart de ton, qui peut rendre les plus grands services pour la musique moderne. Le comité de la S.M.I demande donc à la direction des douanes, de faciliter l'entrée de cet instrument à Paris afin de permettre aux compositeurs français de se rendre compte des expériences de Monsieur Wyschnegradsky. Un vice-président Maurice Ravel "

[@renatofurtado2947]

I really enjoyed it 💀

[@christophedevos3760]

Fascinating piece. Does the name of the ensemble refers to this piece as well, because it seems a bit Hoketus-technique to me as well with the alternation between quartertone piano's?

[@daviddickson2228]

First comment! :D I find it interesting that Wyschnegradsky, though Russian by birth and generally communist, chose to adopt France as his home. I imagine him hammin' it up with Sartre and Foucault in his latter years, pondering les mysteries of being and nothingness. Oh, and the music is decent too.

[@arlenellaban6977]

hi

[@StanislasP]

I can't find info about him in my old communistic encyclopedy of PWN. With his bourgeois, family background, he would have had no chance for a career and life in Soviet Russia. Only

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

Do you think he stayed Communist after he left the Soviet Union? I could see how a lot of people who saw the advertising of the Communists would support the ideals they claimed to support, until they found out the Communists were phonies, which probably wouldn't take very long, given the way they ran the place after they took over.

[@franckmousset4022]

Il ne faut pas oublier que dans l'intelligentsia russe, il était très courant de parler le français.

[@ConcertsEsperluette]

Incredible, bravo ! Where can we find the score ? Greetings from France

[@01AxelBantov]

По-настоящему офигенная "пьяная" музыка. К ней у меня напрашиваются визуальные иллюстрации в духе фильмов сюрреалистов (Бунюэля, Мана Рэя, Жана Кокто), гравюр Макса Эрнста, картин Де Кирико. Музыка прекрасно отражает абсурд и сумбур нынешней жизни, потерянность человека. У нас в России, откуда родом был автор, почему-то его музыку совсем не играют. Наверное, потому, что она слишком явно обличает всё происходящее.

[@vicb4901]

Conducted discipline in quarter tones... Contemporary rather than temporary.

[@realitycheck816]

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@jeannotdenimes158]

Some elements (trilles, arpeggios) remind late Scriabin

[@Bruceykeys]

He was a spiritual successor of Scriabin

[@vpdemantova]

@@Bruceykeys yes

[@vicb4901]

Conducted discipline in quarter tones... Contemporary rather than temporary.