#modern classical

Wendy Carlos and Weird Al Yankovic - Peter and the Wolf

I am currently on a a rare obscure music group on Facebook (Yea I'm still on Facebook. I'm still on Tumblr. What's your point?) who amoung other things currently in a war showing off their "rarest" and most "collectable" Anal Cunt records.

So at present I wasn't expected to be hit with the thrill of a new discovery. Yeaaaa buddy I was wrong.

It is Wendy Carlos and Weird Al Yancovic! Doing Peter and the Wolf!

How did this happen? Are they friends? Were they thrown together like an 80's buddy comedy? Were they bricked into a studio until they had an album Phantom of the Paradise style?

I DON'T KNOW!

I MAY NEVER KNOW!

Anyway Here is a Link click it and who knows what you might have acces too.

Diamanda Galas called this the most terrifying song she had ever heard. This song uses the UPIC composition system - it essentially translates shapes into sound. The Y axis refers to sound frequency, and the X axis time. Basically, instead of using even a microtonal scale, you have note continuums, which was also used by composers like Ligeti. The result is indeed one of the most terrifying and powerful things I've ever heard - and also stands as excellent visual art too. If you want to compose like this (I myself occasionally use something similar for graphic scores), there is a modern recreation available here. You can even get it for iphone/ipad. I'll likely be using it more as I learn it. Anyway I love Xenakis. And not just because he is one of the greatest and most innovative composers of the 20th century. And not just because I owe so much of what I do to him, especially as he went into outright noise music. And not just the fact the was a fantastic architect. But also the fact he had his face disfigured fighting british imperialism, and was part of the armed resistance against fascism during world war 2.

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