Finally, a musical interpretation of what I heard when I had a fever of 103.5 when I was 7 years old.

@amhall1970

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting

@loplopthebird1860

Жыл бұрын

103,5°C D...did your blood boiled?

@djaflo

3 ай бұрын

@@loplopthebird1860 that would be °F

@fredkilner2299

2 ай бұрын

Maybe you had the radio on and it was really 103.5 FM. Once I said it's only 10:45 PM? Friend said. "No" that's 104.5 FM.

“Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind…” Edgard Varese, French, composer

@elliottgoldkind

7 жыл бұрын

Technically an American composer of French birth. But whatever, great quote!

@banmadabon

7 жыл бұрын

as chauvinisme goes since he has italian father and has spent his formative years in Italy (from 10 to 20) you could also say that he is an italian-french composer

@advokata

7 жыл бұрын

What I just don't understand about Varèse is why he thought the generally conservative USA, out of all the other places, was a good alternative to France, which he though was not avantgarde enough.

@sleepyavl

7 жыл бұрын

Nonsense. He was both a French and US citizen (at the very least sequentially) and was French-Italian by ethnic origin.

@superoxidedismutase5757

7 жыл бұрын

"Im not smart, everyone else is dumb!"

Edgard Varese musical ideas can be heard in a million movie cues!!!

@amhall1970

Жыл бұрын

Yeah ?

@daroanvimusen

Жыл бұрын

​@@amhall1970 West Side story total !!

This is how i feel when socializing

@ms9625

3 жыл бұрын

lol

Studying Frank Zappa's biography guided me to this track, I'm evolving so much by listening to this one track.

@williamdelong8265

Жыл бұрын

Zappa set me free musically to create.

@fzcbh4698

Жыл бұрын

The weird thing that when Edgard Vareses passed away at 1965, after that directly Frank started his career as musician and recorded his first album. It is like a legacy(legend later) continued legend works.

@noahfecks7598

6 ай бұрын

I came here because of the same thing, six years later! Hope all is well!

Said it elsewhere...saying again...Varese is the darker, angrier Stravinsky. Great stuff. Pretty obvious Zappa loved those two composers.

Varese really knew what he was saying when he described his music as "the movement of sound-masses" colliding at different speeds and angles, as delineated as different colored zones on a map, all in separate movements, occasionally crashing together. And damn is it interesting to listen to.

@johnappleseed8369

6 жыл бұрын

eruption257 I wish more people would have that reaction to Xenakis

@fiolds350

9 ай бұрын

They probably told him his music was blasphemy

Oh man, the aggression. This is like the heavy metal of the classical music scene.

Your neighbor thought he'd play Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor to scare the children for Halloween, but you came up with a better idea...

A reviewer said of Varese's music at the time "His music is either from the distant past, or the far future, and I can tell which it is."

@AntwhaleNearfar

9 ай бұрын

Both

Really enjoyed this. Thanks for the time uploading it. Thanks everybody else here knowing the name Frank Zappa too. I heard this and the Rites of Spring (mentioned above) at a very cool Edinburgh Festival one year. I also managed to see Sun Ra at one event there also. Feel blessed? Why yes. Yes i do.

I brought myself here.

@whyshouldisharemynameonthe1490

3 жыл бұрын

nice

@segmentsAndCurves

2 жыл бұрын

same

Varese's definition of music: "The corporealization of intelligence that exists within sound."

I can see why Zappa admired him.

@alexacontrerasb

9 жыл бұрын

Totally

@tonewall1

8 жыл бұрын

+Jaime Robles Mendoza he looks like the Dweezil.......

@johnappleseed8369

8 жыл бұрын

+tonewall jaxon that's so true it's scary..

@andym28

3 жыл бұрын

If you are into this and Allan Holdsworth I salute you.

@mrveritas700

2 жыл бұрын

JUST FOUND OUT HE WAS A BIG INFLUENCE ON HIM...I NOW CAN HEAR IT.

Frank Zappa brought me here.

@tommyturner7858

9 жыл бұрын

+Maxime Merlin ditto

@IvanBuck

8 жыл бұрын

+Maxime Merlin And the Legacy continues

@doctorfuse007

8 жыл бұрын

+Maxime Merlin Frank brought me to Edgard! :)

@martouk53

8 жыл бұрын

+doctorfuse007 You can definitely hear this man's influence in the Zappa music, particularly the electronic phase.

@ClarenceDoskocil

8 жыл бұрын

Yep.

Man, the dynamics in this recording are incredible, and this only a KZread capture. Can’t wait to locate a physical copy of this and listen to it on my stereo.

I hear so much of this echoed in Zappa's music (of course) Chicago had a track titled "a hit by Varese"

Masterwork from a truly Genius!!!

I'm on disability retirement and have 24 hours a day to do whatever I want to. I'm going to start making sounds I like. Should be fun.

@itssanti

4 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏🍺

@THEDONTTELLSHOW

3 жыл бұрын

How's it going?

@ratmadness4858

3 жыл бұрын

@@THEDONTTELLSHOW good! I've learned B Major. starting to work on creating sounds in Reason 10. I just like B major

@acavalalcha

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, any update on this?

@ratmadness4858

3 жыл бұрын

@@acavalalcha yes! I'm learning scales on the keyboard. Now I'm taking what I've learned to a electric guitar 1 string at a time. I have learned B Major the best so far. thanks!

I like to listen to this very very LOUD!!!

Why is the siren so much more tasteful in this version than in my Naxos version? Who knew a siren player could make that big of an impact? This is probably my first Varese piece I've truly enjoyed.

@chomoi1389

3 жыл бұрын

The siren bought me here

Fascinating! Not even five minutes in and I've got goosebumps.

Varese is very exciting to discover. Unlike other modernists, once you hear his work 2 or 3 times, you are satisfied for life. Nothing more to be gained from further listening. The music of composers like Messiaen, Ligeti or Boulez one can listen to for decades, but not Varese.

@mrtchaikovsky

8 ай бұрын

Speak for yourself.

Edgar Varèse brought me here.

One of my favorites, too. Just ADORE his sirens!!!!

Thank you Frank!

This is the first time I listen to a work by Varèse from the beginning to the end. Very cool! I find all the references you mentioned (mostly evident to me is the Rite of Spring) and also some Villa-Lobos (above all "Uirapuru", "Amazonas" and Choros no.8). Thanks!

@sleepyavl

7 жыл бұрын

Glad to know someone hears Villa-Lobos!

@EdNeyBraga

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, Villa Lobos's everywhere here!

@psycoticreaction9135

5 жыл бұрын

To David: You listened to it from beginning to end. Very few people do that anymore. Bravo Sir!!!!!

@OmarFernandesAly

2 жыл бұрын

Sure it has Villa Lobos and Stravinsky

This music creates a creepy mood. There is something appealing about... and surprising... An incredible amount of impressions, especially when I'm listening at night...

I'm so grateful for this Thank you for sharing 🙏

"Le côté de Guermantes" et ses commentaires sur la "Schola" m'ont amené ici

Very cool and I love this music because it's crazy how he can do that

Beautiful ! Thanks

I admit my research on Revolution 9 sent me here. Well worth the effort as this is truly a work of genius.

Hi from México: Monstruo de la creación electrónica!...que sería del Rock sin su influencia...no existiría ni el, ni el Jazz! Abrazo esta maravilla de ser!!...Dios te bendiga Edgar....donde quiera que estés!!

So deeply inspired.

he modern day composer refuses to die

@viningsbee

9 жыл бұрын

And that's a great thing. :)

Curiosity brought me here. Interesting.

ANOTHER MASTERPIECE

wow this is amazing

Soothing being! Taste Varese implies a regression, acceptance of an abandonment of critical sense and a letting go to resonate with the expression of human passions. A moving and sensual music, it will always remain hermetic to the sicks of the heart !

Contemporary Classical Music at its Finest

Love it!

This is so good...

Incredible finale!

A masterpiece.

Heard about him from Zappa, but I'm hearing a lot of Keith Emerson "Tarkus" here too.

Last time I heard this was on vinyl.... that's how long ago it was. Thanks for posting.

@christopherfoley5973

3 жыл бұрын

I listen mostly to vinyl now. Still by far the most dynamic and realistic reproduction of the audio spectrum . The thrill of crescendos will scare you , as they should.

@IYAMNI

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherfoley5973 As far as the sonic experience yes, vinyl is superior. But for practical purposes, not so much. I would have to add another room for my collection. Right now it's sitting in about 12 notebooks on a wall shelf. And I have yet to figure out how to play records in my car. haha

Wonderful!!!!!

Thank you fz I get Varese now

Thank you!

I have no words

By listening this, I've already pictured Tom & Jerry in my mind.

@GregoryCoccox

4 жыл бұрын

ahahaaahah :)))

he is genius !

Thanks, Frank......

He damn-well did indeed. Been learnin' a lot about the Laurel Canyon scene too.

One of the greats.....

That final chord!!

@davidraymer397

7 ай бұрын

Influenced the Beatles?

I am going to a film about Varese at The Moma this Wed. The music sounds like the haunting music sprinkled around the original Planet of The Apes.

The reference to Schönberg Op. 16 No. 1 ending at minute 17:30 is very clear, and well yes Stravinsky on crack :-)

One of Frank Zappa's earliest classical music influences.

Pierre Boulez brought me here.

im a long time Zappa geek..he turned me on to this brilliance :-)

A 52-year-old comic book villian named Scorpio brought me here.

This was originally orchestrated for a 140 (!) piece orchestra. Varese cut 15 woodwinds and 5 percussion. I don't believe the original orchestration has ever been recorded. Would love to hear it!

@derPapierschredder

Жыл бұрын

This is an actual recording of the original. I think more important is his cutting of the big brass ensemble behind the stage, which you can hear in this recording in all its glory.

Came here via Chicago.

So glad he added in the cop car siren sound so you know it's him and not some Varese wannabe.

Perfect music for Insane Asylums!

Varèse led me here.

Love the amount of frank Zappa people. You can really see how much these people influenced his work

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag, is fast and bulbous, got me?

the crack remark is concerning yet humorous

The word that comes immediately to mind is “cinematic.”

capolavoro

so damn intense, but greatt

Wow! This is nasty, I adore it

Here by accident as he looks like Joachim Phoenix

@narniabuisnessmethinks5111

4 жыл бұрын

Now I know why he looked familiar. Thanks

John Luther Adams also uses air-raid sirens in some of his compositions, and oh so well!

Fernand Ouellete's biography on Varese is a must read.

In a 1966 interview Frank Zappa said this was the best song, written and performed many years earlier.

Charlie Parker brought me here... There's an interview of bird talking about meeting Edgar and studying under him in Europe.

@rickvosper7318

5 жыл бұрын

'Throughout his career, Charlie Parker publicly acknowledged his admiration for Varese, who was his Greenwich Village neighbor. “I had the pleasure of meeting Edgar Varese,” he once said on Boston radio, “The French composer. He was very nice to me. He’s willing to teach me. He wants to compose something for me.” Of these encounters, Varese remarked, “He stopped by my place a number of times. He was like a child, with the shrewdness of a child. He possessed a tremendous enthusiasm. He’d come in and exclaim, ‘take me in as you would a baby and teach me music. I only write one voice. I want to have structure. I want to write orchestral scores.’ I promised myself I would try to find some time to show him some of the things he wanted to know.” Unfortunately, while the two musicians met informally several times, Varese left for Paris to compose Deserts shortly after they met, and when he returned in the Spring of 1955, Parker was two months dead from lobar pneumonia and a bleeding ulcer.' from digitice.org/blog/post/varese-charlie-parker-and-the-new-york-improv-sessions

@stevegreg8181

Ай бұрын

@@rickvosper7318 Much thanks for this sharing of Parker-Varese encounter.

I had this playing on speed 2 and didn't noticce lmao

"Rite of Spring" is already on crack !

@tomorronow

4 жыл бұрын

This must be SUPER CRACK

Varèse is much more accessible, than Boulez (RIP), who is by far too edgy for me. And yes, Zappa brought me here, too... :D

@johnappleseed8369

7 жыл бұрын

Edgy?

Les versions de Robert Craft et de Pierre boulez sont des références en la matière !

Rayuela brought me here, this is delirious!

I have to relax a little now with a piano solo by Nigel Tomm " Roses Like a Nest from the Parallel Experience."

No conocía este "Onkalo" !

yeah Frank brought me here too

@nytram42

9 жыл бұрын

Me too. All these years later and he's still teaching me.

The Agony of Modern Music. Henry Pleasant..

I see all of this stuff about frank zappa on here. He probably read about Varese in Henry Miller's "The Air Conditioned Nightmare." That's where I first came across the name. The music is nuts lol

Eine feine Musik #

As Pablo Picasso said " i do something, then someone else comes along and does it 'pretty' !" Same for Stravinski. We can do without pretty much everyone else.

this music makes me feel like something bad is gonna happen

@jbonesmd918

8 жыл бұрын

+drewstix magee if you were tripping on LSD multiply that feeling by about 10,000 and then hold on tight.

Das ist eine gute und spannende musik

music for wedding parties

@jamesstoltzfus887

2 жыл бұрын

Chortling out loud That's a great image to behold

Life brought me here

the experimental electronic article fron allmusic.com brought me here.....THIS DARK AND INTENSE!!! MY GOD!

Stunning! But what is it? A tone poem impression of America?

may I please be in your club...my heart lives in this........

damn….