I had the honor of studying under Schick at Fresno State University in the mid 80’s. He was a professor that his students were fortunate enough to have. Steve also put the travel bug in me. “ The best way to spend money is to travel”. His idea sent me out of my comfort zone. His almost religious belief in the power of music transcended every one of his live performances. These many years later I still feel and live his influences.
@benjaminopie7 жыл бұрын
Even if it wasn't intended, one of my favorite parts of this performance is the sympathetic ringing of the tam tam in the background during the long silences.
@MajorBilly16 жыл бұрын
It's as good today as it was when I first heard it thirty years ago!
@scubasylph12 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal performance by the world's VIRTUOSO percussionist
@LJO_Hurts_Pianos6 жыл бұрын
Before this performance, he was merely a Distinguished Professor of Music at UC San Diego; after this performance, he became a god.
@slumsquirrel2116 жыл бұрын
If you've ever heard of Bone Alphabet, Schick memorizes that as well as all of his music. Its amazing
@badazzpresidents2312 жыл бұрын
This is seriously one of my favorite pieces of music of all time. Not just in the avant-garde classical category, in ANY category.
@Rhythm8256 жыл бұрын
What the fuck is wrong with you?
@ValzainLumivix3 жыл бұрын
Nice
@benjamin99012 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Xenakis' percussion works seem so powerful and primordial to me. I imagine this as the first sounds of the universe inflating from the singularity
@i_am_a_music_maker5212 Жыл бұрын
As the name suggests, this piece is based on the poetry of Sappho. It is not meant to represent it emotionally or dynamically, as Sappho wrote mainly romantic poems, but following the rhythmic meter she used, which I think is very creative. Xenakis was truly a genius.
@TheRealLordRama14 жыл бұрын
Absolutely stunning music.
@SweetSweetWaldo16 жыл бұрын
Superb! Schick might be my favorite living percussionist, and Xenakis is definitely in my top 5 composers!
@mshakhz16 жыл бұрын
Incredible! Such a piece and he plays it by heart!
@unwrinkledear15 жыл бұрын
i love how nonchalant the body language is despite the intense violence and thrusts that the performer is making to achieve to achieve the correct velocity of sound = it all comes out in the music.
@AlexPetcu15 жыл бұрын
Also I really think a piece like this has to be experienced live rather than listened to (or even watched on youtube). I saw this performed live when I was 15 and I didn't understand a thing of what was going on but was quaking in my boots for the entire thing. It's definitely a really powerful piece and the feeling you get is like being in a cinema watching a thriller as opposed to a musical.
@CaseyCangelosi17 жыл бұрын
awsome! thanks very much for posting this
@unwrinkledear15 жыл бұрын
sure, nowadays a performance of this piece becomes about a certain kind of virtuosity, but what this particular kind of virtuosity makes shine through, in this instance, is some absolutely incredible music.
@elitefighter150352 жыл бұрын
A true artist.
@lukasfcv17 жыл бұрын
Great musician.
@lucaslambers53157 жыл бұрын
The portion right before the end with the big drum slaps and the new elephant like craziness going is quite climactic.
@keebr15 жыл бұрын
richtomes, i think you are dismissing this because all you're hearing is "play rhythm on a bunch of drums." You have to very carefully follow the rhythm, not just notice that it is there. Listen to this carefully and ask yourself questions. Where do rhythmic elements recur, and where does he introduce new ones? Which ones recur and which ones keep changing? How fast do they change? Where does the music get faster and where does it slow down? Where does it get dense and where is it very open?
@mjollner2315 жыл бұрын
As a musician, percussionist even, I am extremely passionate about pleasing a crowd. It's expressing something and making other people feel it that gets me going. As a musician I see a decrease in concert-attendance(atleast in sweden), I see cuts in funding(long before the "crisis) and I see more and more debate about why contemporary music should even be supported.
@Ted_Swayinghill15 жыл бұрын
Wow I'm just simply amazed!
@keebr15 жыл бұрын
The rhythmic structures in the piece are based on Sapphic meter (hence the name - "Psappha" is an archaic spelling if "Sappha"). The instruments themselves are left for the performer to choose because timbre only serves to punctuate the time. This piece is like poetry stripped of words. Whether you like that idea or not, it is definitely not random nor pathetic.
@ibanezmonsterg16 жыл бұрын
love it...... what's interesting is how some ideas in Xenakis' percussion pieces can even be related to his thought process for orchestra- for example, the repeated note section not too far from the ending...
@madderbass14 жыл бұрын
This is an amazing piece! I LOVE the ending!
@egrieg16 жыл бұрын
se ha aprendido esa obra de multipercusion de memoria, solo me queda una cosa por decir: FRIKIIII!!!! (con todos los repetos)
@MicoAquinoComposer2 жыл бұрын
Great performance!
@crowe14 жыл бұрын
GOLD!
@heteronomyisthecondition13 жыл бұрын
really excellent editing...
@kakofatus15 жыл бұрын
You shouldn't worry about it... Just let people do the music they want to do.
@slumsquirrel2116 жыл бұрын
The beauty of Xenakis' pieces is that they were all constructed mathematically. He never even picked up an instrument. Sure, maybe after hearing it you could compose it, but suppose you had to create a piece from scratch based off a building you designed, without touching an instrument.
@donna3004412 жыл бұрын
A challenge: open two windows with this piece in both. Play both with about 1 second delay between channels. AWESOME!
@eucezinha16 жыл бұрын
Complexity and the dificulty for the interpreter is not an issue when the piece is dam good!
@aekengren15 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is worth the work.
@playswithpassion16 жыл бұрын
Bone Alphabet is insane...did you know that nobody has ever actually played the full score 100% accurately...Schick got about 85% of it and that's the most anyone's ever gotten from it so far...incredible.
@Adelaidis15 жыл бұрын
Wow, you have to be quite great musician to play something like that perfectly. Very well.
@karoloandria15 жыл бұрын
awesome
@AlexPetcu15 жыл бұрын
I remember the part where there is silence except for a really strong bass drum note every now and again. The silence is long enough so that you lose track of the timing so there's almost a fear of when the next note strike will occur.
@nadavnaz216 жыл бұрын
Wow!
@victorcolosio15 жыл бұрын
As long as u manage to express the desired idea, objective or sentiment, everythings cool.. it doesnt matter by which means u do so... so.. he could have stayed there hitting just one of those pans with just one stick during 10 minutes and im sure u wouldve recieved a certain feeling much different from the one u recieved watching and hearing the video. What i mean, there are thousands of combinations and expresssions, this is the
@frookoofrookoo13 жыл бұрын
I don't If this Music Is Good but this guy got soul
@victorcolosio15 жыл бұрын
xenakis lived during the war, much of his music is influenced by gunshots and the sound of horror, nevertheless this is pure beauty of mathematics people, and i believe it doesnt matter by which means u obtain to express the right sentiment or idea.
@matteomaida69726 жыл бұрын
MERAVIGLIA
@badazzpresidents2312 жыл бұрын
And all of a sudden I have a new favorite composition
@playswithpassion16 жыл бұрын
i dig what you have to say...you definitely know your stuff which is refreshing. Exactly...writing complex for the sake of complexity is kind of ridiculous really. It really is a fine line with music that dense in reading as to whether or not it is well crafted and technically pushing the boundaries or if it's really a series of shredding exercises made with no real musical idea to tie it all together. Interesting stuff...
@ReneNikolaou13 жыл бұрын
well done to the percussionist !!!
@ZachHale815 жыл бұрын
this piece only makes sense if played this well...in hommage to Xenakis, what a great composer
@intervalkid12 жыл бұрын
Wow. That's trivial.
@cephalopod15 жыл бұрын
I don't remember the exact details, but I read an essay connecting time relationships in this piece to Jean Piaget's findings on the limits of time-based pattern perception. I.e. after a certain length of silence it is impossible for the human mind to perceive the next event as part of a pattern.. there is much more to it then that but that is the basic concept, and should show you that the long rests are a deliberate structural and perceptual consideration.
@PerroneKayser12 жыл бұрын
sounds like girl on girl loving to me
@cskillet200317 жыл бұрын
Nice!... Played this one before and gave up on trying to memorize it. Hard to do especially with the interesting notation!
@noddymoran13 жыл бұрын
@charlesreid1 them three people are Steve Tyler, Randy Jackson and Jennifer Lopez!
@TheWONGEDAN712 жыл бұрын
remember when I was studied percussion at Institut Kesenian Jakarta, instructured by Ron reeves :) where are u now ron. saya, danar :) txs so must :)
@AlexPetcu13 жыл бұрын
@noddymoran He plays, just like anyone else would. Nobody plays music and solves partial differential equations every second or something. He has his own interpretation though and another person playing this will make it sound different (same order of notes, etc, but different character). I personally prefer a much more dramatic interpretation but everyone has their own. You should listen to "Rebonds" as well by the same composer
@Jack45811115 жыл бұрын
yeah man youre totally right, lets hang out and listen to fall out boy.
@TallFastLoud13 жыл бұрын
@intervalkid define: "so much better". Or do you just mean you would like it more? Here's a hint, stop trying to make "objective" criticisms of things when the real problem is that, at the end of the day, you just happen to not enjoy it but are afraid to be so forthcoming (i.e. that your criticism is subjective). You don't like it. That's okay. Just quit trying to justify it.
@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist Жыл бұрын
Spot -on
@Berliozboy13 жыл бұрын
@intervalkid the Descartes refutation train left like awhile ago...
@intervalkid13 жыл бұрын
@Berliozboy What I mean by Descartes refutation is that nobody has been able to prove the existence of the outside world philisophically, only the thinker. It's been 400 years and nobody's done it.
@linnekss16 жыл бұрын
La música contemporanea no es para todo el mundo; es dificil entenderla, y mucho más la música estocástica de Xenakis
@grandexandi14 жыл бұрын
damn
@richtomes15 жыл бұрын
I do have some authentic tribal drumming recordings picked up in South Africa and though they are considerably more powerful than this the language is extremely similar.
@pastrychef198515 жыл бұрын
This guy looks like Johnathan Meades, but at least has a modicum of talent...in fact a lot of talent.
@richtomes15 жыл бұрын
I always make time for intelligent conversation about music - you should too if music interests you - you might expand your knowledge.
@AlexPetcu15 жыл бұрын
Yes that's right, the ears just need to be opened a little. Also I don't think the average person can't get something from this, same with other good contemporary music. You don't need to understand or be able to analyse what's going on to get something from it (which unfortunately is what many people think). All you need is an open mind and an attention span longer than 5 seconds (which many people don't have).
@papavereus15 жыл бұрын
It IS great performace. The music great as well. georgesman33, if you could play sth like that, I am interested to listen to it.
@Bartkei15 жыл бұрын
I know what you mean moiliryc. But I would still argue that he actually did write it. In this case, the algorithm is what he wrote.
@DanielRock11 жыл бұрын
WHAT.... WHAT!!!
@badazzpresidents2311 жыл бұрын
If you like this, you should also check out his performance of Zyklus by Stockhausen :)
@victorcolosio15 жыл бұрын
new music. numbers.. infinite... and the same as the coinception of einsteins time and space.. everything is different now
@playswithpassion16 жыл бұрын
I know what you mean but I've always been sentimental towards the aspect of personality from humans playing the music...sure a computer could hit every note perfectly without any flaws as written...but it's what is in between the notes on the page that real musicianship is made from...I guess that's just how I see it though.
@dammitpeterable7 жыл бұрын
shhoo agressive
@JohnRSamples12 жыл бұрын
@audiotheaudio. I am sorry I missed these celebrations. My plane was delayed because of snow.
@mjollner2315 жыл бұрын
Be stubborn, passionate, artsy all you want but we need to please a (larger) crowd... Or this downward spiral will only continue until all the smaller institutions have all died from lack of funding. This in turn, in the long run, will result in fewer and fewer kids actually ever hearing classical music and learning an instrument. I hope I'm wrong, time will tell... I rest my case...
@WilliamBeuche16 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know what the instruments he's playing at the end of the piece? They sound amazing and I have never seen or heard of them before. They appear to be square shaped, hollow metal tubes cut to various lengths.
@WilliamBeuche16 жыл бұрын
Can you link to a Rhianna video? I searched and all I found was an artist named Rihanna...
@deadinapark16 жыл бұрын
What is wrong with computers playing music? Why can't computers and humans both play music with out there being some sort of competition? Computers are like extensions of the human experience. I doubt there are many composers who actively seek to write unplayable music. If so, I'd love to hear their stuff.
@WilliamBeuche16 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the reply, at least I have a name now! Does anyone know where I can get my hands on some Sixxen (sometimes spelled "Six-Xen") bars? Or what they are made from? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
@papavereus14 жыл бұрын
Schick needed 800 hours to play this piece like this. Now, do you know what genius means?
@intervalkid13 жыл бұрын
@intervalkid Listen to some Gamelan rummng from Indonesia to see where he really came up with most of these ideas.
@richtomes15 жыл бұрын
Be accurate - I haven't denigrated any culture. What I have denigrated is an art movement which ever since the late 20th century has been trying to take the consonant harmony, melody and wide emotional range out of serious music, to replace it with just about anything which avoids these fundamentals.
@richtomes15 жыл бұрын
Understand what ? That it has become fashionable to accept shoddy minimalist ga ga as a substitute for the incredible richness, invention and sophistication of a great tradition ? Great composers are turning in their graves.
@pixarbuff11 жыл бұрын
The edit cuts out the "slow" part . . .
@supernovasky14 жыл бұрын
Its Xenakis thats pretty much expected and there are a few patterns throughout but thats not the purpose of his music.
@icydarkness17 жыл бұрын
were can i get the notes from?
@ryanseyedian158611 жыл бұрын
what's with the edit at 3:52 ??? WHY?
@intervalkid13 жыл бұрын
@ohlordbabyjesus I wasn't talking about the music sounding intellectual but rather the explanation of how he wrote it. Don't tell me that his process of writing this isn't intellectualized when he bases most of his work on oriental folk music, using mathematical and philisophical explanations to gain peoples interest and hide the sources.
@papavereus13 жыл бұрын
@xguitarxchan Well, if you had known Schick's job, you would have called this drum set pretty normal. Schick used to play... on everything, what can make a good sound. On your empty head probably too...
@jeffreyrk12 жыл бұрын
there's like a minute cut out at 3:52
@richtomes15 жыл бұрын
The term "minimalist" is often applied colloquially to designate anything which is spare or stripped to its essentials. This might not be minimilist music Glass style, but when compared to the richness of harmonic and rhymic invention of the great composers it is pretty poor fare. Tribal drumming is really better left to the native people of 3rd world countries - they do it far better than we do. Rather assimilate and develop the rich music tradition we created over centuries along with clothes.
@papavereus13 жыл бұрын
@ohlordbabyjesus don't think so. just very busy ;-)
@egw1515 жыл бұрын
he plays it whithout reading a partion?
@Faaip0de0oiad15 жыл бұрын
Yes, I was being ironic about the "second tier" comment from taskmg3
@suzielovesmusic16 жыл бұрын
wow, leather pants.....
@nelgstrebor15 жыл бұрын
i don't understand the long rests, im assuming they are on beat. It seems like its forcing me to click in my head. nice bd accents though id like to see him do that while playing those metal things with his hands.haha.
@heidegger177714 жыл бұрын
@WildcatDrummer8 sin ánimo de ofender, creo que no tiene usted cultura musical contemporanea, por lo que no puede disfrutar de piezas como esta que son, hoy día, clásicas. Abra su mente, busque la belleza más allá de los estereotipos culturales tópicos de nuestros días; contemple las referencias a otras edades y otras culturas, y si no posee la cultura histórica y etnólogica necesaria, dejese sugerir un viaje a otras civilizaciones y otros tiempos que también pueden ser suyos.
@Faaip0de0oiad15 жыл бұрын
Not all of Xenakis pieces were constructed with mathematics. I don't think thats the "beauty" of them either, just as the sonata form isn't the beauty of Mozart's music.
@OktoPlasm16 жыл бұрын
you are probably missing something. Schick is superman.
@intervalkid12 жыл бұрын
Though I don't like this piece I have found that Xanakis did in fact give credit to his folk influences at other times so I don't find him to be a bullshitter anymore.
@katamiaennoia17 жыл бұрын
ok, he is good [maybe the recording isn't so good], but i thing he just played the difficult piece. This piece is more powerful than this! He couldn't help braking the work into smaller pieces in his mind. [i think, dramatourgy staff...]