Eternal Memory
October 7, 2009 at 11:23 pm
” Brain Reset List No.1 ”
01. György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna
György Ligeti: Clear or Cloudy (2006)
02. aAirial - Useless Tune
le fil du temps (2009)
03. Philip Glass - Metamorphosis Two
Solo Piano (1989)
04. Autechre - Steels
Quaristice (Warp Records, 2008)
05. Philip Glass - String Quartet No.3 (Mishima) 1962-Body Building
Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass (1995)
06. Venetian Snares + Hecate - blood on the rope
Nymphomatriarch (Hymen, 2003)
07. Venetian Snares - Hajnal
Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (Planet Mu, 2005)
08. William Duckworth - The Time Curve Preludes, xiv.
The Time Curve Preludes. Neely Bruce, Piano (Lovely Music, 1990)
09. John Tavener - Eternal Memory for Solo Cello and Strings. With Great Peace and Serenity
Svyati (Steven Isserlis-Cello) (1997)
10. Alva Noto + Opiate - Track 04
Optofiles (Raster-Noton, 2001)
note: My brain is trying to rebalance itself after listening to so many rock albums, so this list isn’t making any sense until after later posts. Anyway, some people likes having conversation, stiff drink, a kiss, a night out to put head back together again. me? My brain recharts entire music catalog inside my head then spewing odd combination. This list in a sense is anti rock. No blues, no electric guitar, no lyrics, no twelve bar phrasing or opening-lick-chorus-bridge repeat. The bigger structure drive changing time signature, not the other way around. It’s a left over of last project a mix between modern minimalist and DnB. In a way, this is a very “pop” list, it flows like pop list. Short to the point lyricism and punchy rhythm except with DnB and minimalist form. It’s a self indulging list however and not very robust, so definitely won’t work without focus ad good headphone. Think techno humanoid precision instrument, in forever precarious balance between wild futuristic novelty and overly predictable sentimentalistic form. Overall, a little psychotic. You’ve been warned.
image: [Ethan Hein] [Pattern - Animal (2004) Ryoko Aoki (Japanese, born 1973) Ballpoint pen on five pieces of paper]
Lux Aeterna is a piece for 16 solo singers, written by György Ligeti in 1966. It is most famous for its use in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The text (in Latin) is from the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass: Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es. Requiem aeternum dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis, which means “May everlasting light shine upon them, O Lord, with thy saints in eternity, for thou art merciful. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may everlasting light shine upon them.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux_Aeterna_%28Gy%C3%B6rgy_Ligeti%29
[...] “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” Elias Canetti Three years old, living in Maryland. Went upstairs to nap. Remember all the details. Mother washing clothes in the old wringer washer, climbing the stairs, shadows in my room, the feel of my bed clothes, then….. drifting. No afterwards. No waking. No rest of the day. For years, and perhaps a bit still, I was half convinced my life was a dream from which I would one day awake. Lately, dreams have a persistentence. The details are always different. But I am always lost. Am I dreaming my life, or is my life dreaming me?Metamorphosis Two. [...]
great list. that impulse to seek out the anti-rock is a familiar one :)
Love that 2001: A Space Odyssey song….Thanks :)