He lectured at Yale, Princeton, Columbia and other universities. The result was Poeme Electronique, completed in His pieces began to be released on record. Some of his music began to appear in scores. A year later, he received the first Koussevitsky International Recording Award.
He spent his last few years revising his earlier works. He worked on a new piece, Nocturnal , but it was left unfinished at the time of his death in November, All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy. About this Artist. Previous Events. The strident and extremely dissonant blocks of sound, almost resembling factory whistles, form the content of the piece without the rhythmic or tonal developments normally used by composers.
The first section consists of two unchanging chord structures around which a melodic pattern oscillates. It is one of the first of those "crystal" musical forms that were to be used so much in the following years. This term implies that the basic sound material of the piece is unchanging and that the shifting relationships between its elements is the only thing that "happens.
Written for percussion instruments plus a siren, it is one of the first of the many all-percussion pieces that were to follow. Equatorial, calling for two Theremins, shows his interest in new sound sources. The first is produced by the instruments; the second consists of a two-channel stereophonic tape of electronically produced sound.
According to the composer, the instrumental parts produce a sense of movement in space, associated with the element within which the human operates, and the taped section is associated with distance and the nonhuman elements of the universe.
The pavilion was planned as a "total environment" meant to result in a complex, multimedia experience for the audience. The music was heard from over loudspeakers as the visitors walked through the building, seeing at the same time a series of projected images. It is not meant to be listened to in the usual attentive manner.
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