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Continuum (Ligeti)

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activity in which inner experiences took place at greatly increased speed, so that much more than usual happened per minute of external time. The result was to give an effect of
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Tim Edwards, "Music emitted rom Comet 67P sounds an awful lot like 20th-century harpsichord masterpiece", classic fm, 14 November 2014
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Bauer, Amy (2004). "'Tone-Color, Movement, Changing Harmonic Planes': Cognition, Constraints and Conceptual Blends",
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after the fluctuations were artistically sonificated by a German composer and sound designer to make them audible.
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I thought to myself, what about composing a piece that would be a paradoxically continuous sound, something like
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Amazon.com: Ligeti: Mechanical Music: Music: Gyorgy Ligeti, Pierre Charial, Jürgen Hocker, Françoise Terrioux
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and the limit set by the mechanism of the harpsichord is about fifteen to sixteen notes a second). As the
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The piece has also been compared by classical music reviewers to the magnetic fluctuations of comet
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through extremely rapid activity." She compares it to a patient's description of the
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Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought
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composed in 1968, and dedicated to the contemporary harpsichordist,
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in rapid succession which create the impression of continuous
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Ligeti also wrote two subsequent works for solo harpsichord:
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Amy Bauer (2004, p. 130) describes the piece as
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Index

harpsichord
musical composition
György Ligeti
Antoinette Vischer
Atmosphères
continuum
notes
string
plectrum
noise
sound impulses
sound
trompe-l'œil
stasis
schizophrenic
cerebral
slow motion
barrel organ
player pianos
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Philae
"Behind the scenes of 'The Singing Comet'"
Tim Edwards, "Music emitted rom Comet 67P sounds an awful lot like 20th-century harpsichord masterpiece", classic fm, 14 November 2014
ISBN
1-58046-143-3
Amazon.com: Ligeti: Mechanical Music: Music: Gyorgy Ligeti, Pierre Charial, Jürgen Hocker, Françoise Terrioux
Claude Samuel
Peter Petersen
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