Tristan Murail - Désintégrations (1982-83)

www.tristanmurail.com/en/oeuvr...
Murail is associated with the "spectral" technique of composition, which involves the use of the fundamental properties of sound as a basis for harmony, as well as the use of spectral analysis, FM, RM, and AM synthesis as a method of deriving polyphony.
Major pieces by Murail include large orchestral pieces such as Gondwana, Time and Again and, more recently, Serendib and L'esprit des dunes. Other pieces include his Désintégrations for 17 instruments and tape, Mémoire/Erosion for French horn and nine instruments Ethers for flute and ensemble, Winter Fragments, for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello and electronics as well as Vampyr! for electric guitar.
Murail also composed a set of solo pieces for various instruments in his cycle Random Access Memory, of which the sixth, Vampyr!, is a rare classical piece for electric guitar. Vampyr! is one of several works in Murail's catalogue that do not employ spectral techniques. Rather, in the performance notes, the composer asks the performer to play the piece in the manner of guitarists in the popular and rock traditions, such as Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton.
Among Murail's awards are the Prix de Rome (presented by the French Académie des beaux-arts in 1971), the Grand Prix du Disque (1990), and the Grand Prix du Président de la République, Académie Charles Cros (1992).
Murail's works are published by Éditions Transatlantiques and Éditions Henry Lemoine. His music has been recorded on the Una Corda, Metier, Adés, and MFA-Radio France labels.
video created with vokoscreen and Sonic Visualizer on a Kubuntu 14.04 LTS Linux System.

[@joneszilla7087]

This is some of the most beautiful music I've ever listened to.

[@null8295]

is there more of this?

[@_grahamjacobson]

I. 0:00 II. 2:52 III. 6:40 IV. 10:02 V. 10:50 VI. 11:50 VII. 14:43 VIII. 15:55 IX. 16:16 X. 17:28 XI. 19:21

[@gerardbegni2806]

Trisran Murail is ; with Gérard Grisey who passed away prematurely, a major if not the heir of the so-calles "xpectral" school. Although based upon strict physical sound analysis, the inventivity of the composr is not inhibited:; it can switch to other parameters tan usual, including the second Viennes e and the Darmstadt schools. Murail and Grisey left us many poetic scores if we accept to listend to nrw soundings. Their influence upon sucha composer than Kaija Saariaho is great.

[@arastoomii4305]

Wow this actually calmed the shid out of me

[@matijamikovic5756]

Haha yeah I found myself meditating to the piece. Very strange.

[@pianomanhere]

Discovered this piece several years ago and have loved it ever since.

[@Protonixum]

Chef d'oeuvre !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Protonixum]

Chef D'œuvre de Tristan dans sa veine spatiale !!!

[@laninqko815]

Phenomenal work! Magnify my inner senses like a transition into other unworldly worlds.

[@sonicsnap1173]

Admirable music!

[@sonicsnap1173]

Imo, spectralism is the best thing that happened to contemporary music at the end of the twentieth century!

[@gammakeraulophon]

@sonicsnap117 Hardly the end of the C20... Its roots are in the 1960's

[@sonicsnap1173]

@@gammakeraulophon Yes, I admit it was a rather vague approximation!

[@gammakeraulophon]

@@sonicsnap1173 Hey thanks.. and I agree btw.. love Grisey 'Partiels' etc.. still got a lot to explore myself.. : )

[@jeanaspirateur2808]

What about minimalist music? I love it too.

[@gammakeraulophon]

@@jeanaspirateur2808 Yeah ok you can go and love it too.. that's fine...! : ) Us spectralists like to give permission in such things. I even like it when chairs creak on stage. Or someone makes a sound like a dog.

[@OwlThrower]

This evokes visions of gems and some archetypal mythical creatures with spectral changes of color and light, mixing earth and sky together in my imagination

[@brearddidier454]

The Inventors of the Spectral Music were inspired by Giacinto Scelsi and Gyorgy Ligeti, so they couldn't be wrong! I'm a big fan of Tristan Murail. And I enjoy too the music of his pupils, like Julian Anderson, Joshua Fineberg and so on..

[@didierschein8515]

The first spectral composers, after Scelsi, were the romanian Iancu Dumitrescu and Horațiu Rădulescu. And I don`t believe that they already knew the music of Scelsi in this period.

[@franckmousset4022]

@@didierschein8515 Radulescu knew it.

[@didierschein8515]

@@franckmousset4022 Yes, but maybe only after his departure in France, not in Romania. I don`t know.

[@nickgodi9001]

Adam Neely

[@hey4067]

which vid ?

[@percybyssheshelley9694]

Alexandre Bali kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJTOnKqfjteditk

[@hey4067]

@@percybyssheshelley9694 thanks ! seems that i got into this "rabbit hole" for a while now then lol

[@percybyssheshelley9694]

Alexandre Bali You’re welcome :)

[@sytsew]

Seeing the spectral visualisation together with hearing the piece (for the first time, in my case) really does add to the experience, actually - and not meant in some pseudo-psychedelic way. Interesting interplay between anticipation ("oh god, there's some wave coming!") and sonic surprises ("that sounds much more different than it looks!"). Higher resolution (and more colours) please! :)

[@null8295]

how to read it?

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[@finleyduke1385]

@Anthony Rene instablaster :)

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[@ha3vy]

The real klangfarbenmelodie

[@grahamexeter3399]

Spectacular! A mini supernova in slow motion!

[@hatephone]

the chord at 10:50 is my favorite chord in music, i think

[@aliennoodle4844]

I respect your opinion, however I must disagree...

[@hatephone]

Alien Noodle what’s your favorite? :)

[@aliennoodle4844]

@@hatephone probably that whole swell on 14:20 . It really destroyed my eardrums... In a good sort of way of course

[@gammakeraulophon]

@HatePhone Hah Hah Hah... Thanks for sharing that wonderful little narcissistic gem with as much of the world as can be bothered to read it. Come on..... What's your 'favourite' colour? I cannot wait to hear.

[@hatephone]

@@gammakeraulophon yellow is my favorite color :)

[@Protonixum]

Excellent !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@fredquantik3057]

musique éclectique de murail nous transporte après toutes les années électro acoustiques d après guerre , désintégration nous plonge dans un mysticisme cosmique que l hermétisme contribuera a nous faire transcender le matérialisme conceptuel des créateurs abstraits contemporains ,,

[@user-vs1wh9ze6z]

Grazie ~

[@trollenciofuu]

anxiety... everywhere ...

[@RingOfRae]

Ignacio ... not for me... so this proves one thing : projection.... and subjectivity... anxiety is what you give, anxiety is what you get. I once stopped listening to any kind of music, I took like a year without any listening to music.... that showed to be very liberating.... then when I started listening again, this kind of musical experience made sense... freedom! that is not always easy to handle, hence anxiety....

[@tfrascaroli]

This is oddly cool.

[@SlasherMatt]

Found this piece while studying Curtis Roads Manual and I literally got stuck listening to this instead of reading the book, dammit

[@stephenweigel]

Relatable

[@nicostrappa6098]

Ambient BIG

[@wazzpqazzza]

Having the spectrograph set to linear mode is crazy, because I almost never see it, we're used to log10 based spectrographs but this is really interesting because a lot of the harmonics and and sounds are *equidistant* in wavelength. This doesn't sound equidistant, it usually sounds jarring (which is kinda true for this) but it certainly looks interesting.

[@wazzpqazzza]

I wonder if that's how a natural harmonic series just appears on a linear spectrograph and only appears to telescope on a log scale one because of the scale.

[@AlainPatrickSoulandSound]

Splendid.

[@RyanPower]

Great video, which recording is this?

[@zwinklit]

Where did you find this recording?

[@JamesWoolleyGuitar]

Psychedelic.

[@mathias841]

10:44 montée de hauteur

[@AlbertoEpsilones]

Incluido en Klásica: kzbin.info/aero/PLGwMd6H3V68oJldmR0OkSzoNiCqfFg0VS

[@DaviRaubach]

Can you tell me who is playing?

[@narelamartinez9139]

Cuales son los parámetros que se destacan???

[@SuperRandomizer2000]

How do you even perform this?

[@julianbalboa8442]

18:55 Respiración de cinta magnética

[@Olordrin]

Is it strange that bits and pieces of this remind me of Star Wars?

[@mashedtato2677]

This sounds like the music from The Shining

[@youtub-fj8mu]

Seeing the spectrum and the levels spoils some parts

[@eskilfundal8809]

What type of pane is the big blue one? And what does it show?

[@AMReed8]

The spectrum of frequencies?

[@robpiy91]

The spectrum of frequencies, yes. * a spectrum shows which frequencies are heard and "how much" they are heard. White means those frequencies (on the left in Hz) are being played rather loudly. As the human ear is most sensitive to frequencies around 2k-5k Hz, those are generally less white, as the ear perceives them as louder on a lesser intensity.

[@null8295]

some similar composition?

[@joeh5511]

reminds of rza,

[@Ricemon58]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@alexandrecarbonel5908]

Logarithmic > Linear representation of the spectrum

[@pierluigisalsano172]

Chiedo cortesemente se posso campionare piccoli brani suoi.... Grazie Ps non faccio nulla se lei non mi da il permesso, trovo interessante il suo lavoro.... Pier Luigi

[@petalynch2312]

interesting... I don't get it but it's interesting....

[@RingOfRae]

Peta Lynch ... no need to get anything .... it's just music... as "strange" it may seem, it is still all about sensorial experience.... aesthetic experience... so just trip and enjoy!

[@joelbarr5171]

6:48

[@Nikki-gv6gl]

this is just minecraft cave noises

[@snch2113]

10:10

[@vitalijsfilipovs9259]

Matrix- Resurrection?

[@b.a.r.c.l.a.y9701]

15:55

[@b.a.r.c.l.a.y9701]

5:50

[@AlerMashiro]

What is music at this point

[@jimbajim]

On the radio? Saccharine.

[@danal81]

Matrix

[@unpaintedcanvas]

IMO this sort of music could have some great application in horror movies, especially since the genre is oversaturated with the same set of specialized instruments.

[@neve6772]

mhm

[@LouisGuillotYT]

This music is great without any visual support

[@aleksandardzunic8174]

00:00-01:00... Naima?

[@lilidane8975]

why ? I don't hear it

[@aleksandardzunic8174]

@@lilidane8975 Maybe I am wrong....But possibility of existence is much more important ...?

[@lilidane8975]

Were you talking about the Coltrane's song?

[@wrestpinpeace]

Mmm sorry wasn't for me, but I did give it a good listen to all the way until the headache part!

[@DomeArmin]

10:02 : My cats' concerto is starting.... :/ 14:46 : OK, I'm OUT!!!

[@franckmousset4022]

Open your ears and your mind !!

[@user-xf3gr3ns4x]

Nothing about music 👎🏼💩

[@gammakeraulophon]

No respect paid to CopyRight at all nowadays... And you impound this further by showing a 'wonderful' graphic of the music ripped into your computer. And yet... Without paying for it... All of these high art cultural persuits.. or even just the work of ordinary musicians shall shrivel and die.

[@kiezdirekt]

god is dead!

[@gammakeraulophon]

@@kiezdirekt Yeah.. but money ain't.

[@kiezdirekt]

@@gammakeraulophon and you talk about your money?

[@gammakeraulophon]

@@kiezdirekt Dunno what your issue is mate. You obviously are not a musician.. and so do not understand the issues. Go shake someone else's (money) tree.

[@kiezdirekt]

@@gammakeraulophon You are a moralizer.