Hi Eddie new to site

[Mirror Image]

Thanks Mirror Image, screen name would be very familiar from another classical music site. Good another fan of Varèse. I like his unending pursuit of new sounds and forms in music particularly the early use of electronics.

Other composers mostly modern: Pierre Boulez, Frank Zappa, Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis for example

Hmm...can't say I enjoy Boulez, Zappa, or Stockhausen much, but I do like Xenakis. My favorite work of his is Hiketides. There's actually an element of 'defeat' in this particular work where it seems all of the aggression that had been channeled through previous works and even some in this work has subsided to reveal a haunting lament towards the end. Do check this work out (if you haven't already).

[EddieRUKiddingVarese]

Each to their own I guess, glad you like Xenakis thou

Playing Metastasis right now

[Mirror Image]

Each to their own I guess, glad you like Xenakis thou

Playing Metastasis right now

Absolutely, I'm thankful for the diversity that surrounds this site. From the Renaissance to the Classical Era to 20th Century Modernism, this site has listeners of all niches.

[EddieRUKiddingVarese]

Absolutely, I'm thankful for the diversity that surrounds this site. From the Renaissance to the Classical Era to 20th Century Modernism, this site has listeners of all niches.

Very good to hear, so no putting down of 20th Century Modernism- very good to hear

wont try any tonal/ atonal discussions- they become very boring

[Mirror Image]

Very good to hear, so no putting down of 20th Century Modernism- very good to hear

wont try any tonal/ atonal discussions- they become very boring

Well, I've reached a point where I will not partake in the tonal vs. atonal discussions for the simple fact that there's good music to be found in both. Whether someone considers this piece or that piece music or not is really of no interest to me anymore. I'm either moved by what I'm hearing or I'm not. Of course, some music takes some time to sink in but there's got to be something alluring about it to me for me to continue to come back if this makes any sense.

[EddieRUKiddingVarese]

In total agreement

[Green Destiny]

Hey Eddie - I remember you from TC (and also for being a fellow Aussie!)
Welcome and enjoy the site

[Karl Henning]

In total agreement

In tonal agreement?  0:)

[North Star]

Atonal agreement?

[Mirror Image]

Atonal agreement?

In tonal agreement?  0:)

No, in musical agreement. 0:)

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Hey Eddie - I remember you from TC (and also for being a fellow Aussie!)
Welcome and enjoy the site

Australians of the world, unite!

[EddieRUKiddingVarese]

Hey Eddie - I remember you from TC (and also for being a fellow Aussie!)
Welcome and enjoy the site

Thanks Green Destiny - great to see a the Aussie contingent is alive and well here with COAG and yourself.

Have a Beer

Eddie

[EddieRUKiddingVarese]

No, in musical agreement. 0:)

Very good to hear, both tonally and atonally

but I'm not sure if  Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi

is tonal or atonal

[Mirror Image]

What's your favorite performance of Ameriques, Eddie? I'm assuming you own them all.

[EddieRUKiddingVarese]

To have them all - that would be some effort no alas not   

That is a good thing with Varèse, while the number of works in not large the number of recordings is.

Fav would be - Ensemble intercontemporain - Matthias Pintscher

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

To have them all - that would be some effort no alas not   

That is a good thing with Varèse, while the number of works in not large the number of recordings is.

Fav would be - Ensemble intercontemporain - Matthias Pintscher

That one is soooo good

[EddieRUKiddingVarese]

Yes is a good one cheers 

[Mirror Image]

To have them all - that would be some effort no alas not   

That is a good thing with Varèse, while the number of works in not large the number of recordings is.

Fav would be - Ensemble intercontemporain - Matthias Pintscher

Is there a recording of this performance from Pintscher?

[EddieRUKiddingVarese]

Try Matthias Pintscher's web site

[SimonNZ]

Is that the one on EiC's own YT chanel?