audio: etude after Ligeti
Ligeti’s Atmosphères is a piece that had a profound impact on me. I actually studied the score before hearing it, and heard it outside the film score context where most people encountered it. I think I was in my mid teens at the time. I had access to a university library and a really hip professor that turned us on to some great modern compositions.
I’m interested especially in the way the usual musical devices were forsaken in this piece in favor of big blocks of sound, and the impact that had on the creation and release of tension. I’ve been looking for a way to do my own experimentation along these lines. I found a fairly satisfactory set of tools, and here’s my first effort at trying to adopt this sort of musical vocabulary.
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