>So what does everyone on this list listen to? I am still very much interested in the modernist/avant-garde composers Ligeti, Xenakis, Nono, Scelsi, Stockhausen, and Cage and Feldman whose works exist on another level. Ligeti continually surprises me. I just listened to the recent Sony CD of his keyboard works: a new recording of his organ work "Harmonies" in which Ligeti himself lays his body on the organ bellows, and moving his body, produces a weird, unearthly sound morphology, as if the organ tones are fading in and out of reality. In previous versions of this work, power to the bellows was turned off and on to produce strange effects, but Ligeti's body manipulation takes these effects to the extreme.
I have not yet heard Ligeti's "symphonic poem" for 100 metronomes, which was listed in an early Fluxus publication. I do not know the story of its creation or how it was included in the Fluxus publication. Anybody know the story? (here is a photo of a 1989 performance: http://www.schott-cms.com/nocache/gyl/cds/) Here is a photo of Boulez touching his chin while he looks at Ligeti: http://www.schott-cms.com/nocache/gyl/fotos/6,b38de0d8f95.html Here is an mp3 file of the carhorn prelude from his anti-anti-opera "Le Grande Macbre: http://www.schott-cms.com/12publish/cms/resources/gyl/6179d1c8360.mp3 The 2 versions I have heard previously have used electric horns: this version is seemingly done with old-fashioned horns. Other sampes can be found here: http://www.schott-cms.com/nocache/gyl/special/ton/ -Josh Ronsen in Austin, Texas Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com
