Ligeti : a cluster in the bardo

Ligeti takes to the ether... never will there be another like him.

"POEME SYMPHONIQUE" by Gyorgy Ligeti (mp3 -27.8 MB)
Ligeti's 1962 composition for 100 metronomes..... Score here.
From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music" at WFMU.

Stephan Beyst - with deeper readings of some on Ligeti's work.


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"Requiem for Ligeti"

attach 83 harmonicas to 83 vaccum cleaners and set them running.
simultaneously have someone roll between all the vaccum cleaners in a wheelchair with playing cards attached to the spokes via clothes-pins ( as children used to do on their bikes).
perform for 83 minutes.

DokUni -2006

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