When I was a high school student, I was shocked by the freshness of the theme, and now as a University student, also shocked by the structure, texture, and development of the theme.
wow, thank you so much for making me discovering this beautiful masterpiece ! that savagery and delicacy altogether make it wonderful to listen to ! and the musical writing is astonishingly efficient ! thank you again.
Amazing. Wow. Incredible, I love this. I don't know what to say. It's like a trip into my head, what I've been feeling. I don't know what else to say but that this means a lot to me.
First time hearing Nishimura. Didn't even know this composer exists. Wow, indeed. This music is so splendidly horrific, but mercurial: so that it can be brooding and soft, too: I love it!
It's not about the size of the group, it's about what are the strenghts of the group. But, I'm an old school composer and, after all these centuries, still consider string quartet as a conversation of four gentlemen. Sure it is capable of doing harsh dense textures or static soundscapes like here, but other ensembles (especially if electronics/computers are involved) do those things better.
I disagree. There is a dry tone and sharpness that only chamber music can achieve. please tell me another medium that can do sth like 3:10 to 4:50. That is SOOOO string quartet.
And your argument on its own is not without counter. You focus on one perspective of sting quartet only, isolating and disregarding the other components (harmony). If we change the subject of your argument from string quartet to fugues, then it is like saying 'fugues are only about interweaving melodies, sure you can create complex harmonies is fugues but a chorale is better suited.' You cannot dissect music and assign each medium one single aspect of/role in music.
It is a sad little person who's compelled to shut out such beauty. Each to their own, but 'thumbing down' this piece is a bit like poo-pooing breath or love.
Liking this tells that you aren't ok. This isn't a breath or love but a pretentious piece of shitty elitist music that hurts your ears and doesn't really deserve to be called music. I'd rather call it "shitty noise". When people listen to music they are trying to find sounds that are throw us out to the music. This shitty noise just sounds like beehive combined with moving furniture, banging a piano with firsts and a street drill. High and annoying and dissonant noises are meant to torture, and surely this piece does torture your ears, mind and soul. This is far from breath or love and much more close to just a pile of stinky and smelly shit. With "love" and "beauty", Mikkis
These sound annoying. If you tell me that something like high pitched dissonant sounds don't sound annoying, think why we use dissonant high pitches for sirens. Also dissonance is very present in this "music" which can be also considered to be noisy.
That's a pretty inaccurate description of the music, but I doubt you listened to the whole piece. Even still what is wrong with noise? I don't see how noise organized by time isn't music. Saying music that's dissonant isn't music is excluding so many amazing sounds and moods.
@@TheMikkis100 may i ask you to listen from 10:20? You can't tell me that that is "Shitty noise"... Also, listen to metal or rock music. If you consider this piece "shitty noise", why shouldn't these be too?
Blinding. This quartet radiates heat ... It makes an appearance on this string quartet list: rateyourmusic.com/list/rm508/50ish-essential-string-quartets-for-fun-and-profit-1/
Music is a discovery and should be full of exploration. To feel all emotions and experience is crucial to good music. This however is music for a select few who can with experience appreciate.
Io ascolto e apprezzo tutti i generi musicali, ma ovviamente tra essi non vi entra la impropriamente definita musica contemporanea, in quanto non voglio infangare il buon nome della «musica». Ho tre diplomi al conservatorio (pianoforte, musica corale e direzione di coro, composizione) e in più ho conseguito il biennio specialistico in musica contemporanea con il massimo dei voti. È proprio in virtù di quest'ultimo che posso affermare con certezza e con una marea di prove schiaccianti che la musica contemporanea non ha niente a che vedere con la musica (motivo per il quale non la definisco «musica contemporanea» ma «arte sonora contemporanea»). Se vado al pianoforte e metto di getto la mano sulla tastiera producendo un cluster, chi mi vede sostiene che abbia fatto una sorta di gioco. Se mi registro l'audio e lo porto ad un concorso, la commissione non esprimerà un giudizio, ma mi chiederà di illustrare la mia composizione con una conferenza (senza la quale non hanno la minima idea del progetto e filosofia nascosto nella composizione). A questo punto, se le mie argomentazioni non sono soddisfacenti per la commissione, la composizione sarà ritenuta una cagata, se invece sono convincenti, miracolosamente il tutto diventa «musica». Ecco il discostamento della musica dall'arte sonora contemporanea: la musica non ha bisogno di essere spiegata e vola dritta al cuore delle persone, mentre la seconda ha necessariamente bisogno di una spiegazione che solo l'autore può dare. Tirando una linea di somma, nell'arte sonora contemporanea si è strapieni di compositori cialtroni e truffatori: basta scrivere una mera cagata, giustificarla con una finta argomentazione (non ci vuole niente ad inventarsi una storiella di fantasia) e crogiolarsi sul fatto che chi la ascolta si fida del professionismo del compositore per autoconvincersi di aver ascoltato musica. Grazie a Dio, sono argomentato in materia sufficientemente per poter essere più che sicuro di ciò che dico.
Benissimo, quindi come vede, anche lei ha i suoi bordi per definire se un'opera artistica sia tale o una mera cagata. Pensi che ci sono delle persone che pagano fior di quattrini per andare a vedere tale «merda d'artista» di Piero Manzoni solo perché si fidano delle intenzioni dell'artista e per la sua consolidata fama. Anch'io ho i miei bordi che fanno sì che stabilisca cosa sia musica e cosa sia arte sonora contemporanea che, il più delle volte, considero pura presa per il culo.
7:25 is just excellence.
The opening is a Beethoven reference and reoccurring motif throughout the piece
Indeed! Beethoven's Grosse Fugue!
Yes, sure.. and thats it, unfortunately
When I was a high school student, I was shocked by the freshness of the theme, and now as a University student, also shocked by the structure, texture, and development of the theme.
starting at 10:43 is a kind of otherworldly beauty. From there all the way to the end its just this incredible dynamism.
Reminds me of the first time I listened to Ligeti and Bartok!
Mindblowing composition, incredible performance! Thank you Akira Nishimura, thank you Lotus String Quartet.
wow, thank you so much for making me discovering this beautiful masterpiece ! that savagery and delicacy altogether make it wonderful to listen to ! and the musical writing is astonishingly efficient ! thank you again.
R.I.P Master of Heterophony
I am playing this at a gala in Frankfurt next week.
Wow…speechless… quoting Schumann: hats up! Here’s a genius!!
Unbelievable just how exiting this piece is!
If we're pulling stylistic references out of this piece, let me add that the 4/8 measure, two bars after number 24 (8:37) are pure Bernard Herrmann!
One of the most incredible string quartets I've ever heard
Gorgeous piece!
wonderful.the score is full of ideas and bristling excitement!
What an extraordinary piece of music. Glad I discovered this. Came here after some Webernpieces. Great find.
masterclass in textural writing!
With music like this I find it SO helpful to have the score to follow: thanks.
un lavoro eccezionale e meraviglioso!
I used to feel like this. Then I went for psychotherapy and now I feel better. Thank you.
a genius work....
I don’t know what to say. I’m amazed. This is incredible. So deep and profound. Speaks so hard.
Hearing the first theme made me without reaction, soo good music
Amazing. Wow. Incredible, I love this. I don't know what to say. It's like a trip into my head, what I've been feeling. I don't know what else to say but that this means a lot to me.
Here's hoping you realize how vitally important having the video score is.
Brilliant. Hands down.
This piece is brilliant, and hard as hell.
such brilliant counterpoint at 10:46
Fantastic piece and an equally fantastic performance!
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Goddamn is this good
12:25 It reminds me of n.6 in Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time
I'm sure it is ;)
Goddamn it is indeed!
NO SHIT! WOW...My standard of excellence is Ligeti, and this meets the FUCK out of that standard...Gotta look into this composer!
My guess is Ligeti...
Wonderful music! Great composer! :D
it was the most beautiful thing that i ever heard!
RIP :(
I hear so much Schnittke here.
First time hearing Nishimura. Didn't even know this composer exists.
Wow, indeed. This music is so splendidly horrific, but mercurial: so that it can be brooding and soft, too: I love it!
I thought I was imagining Schnittke's influence - I'm glad someone else hears it too!
Truly fantastic music.
This is amazing! Mind blowing.
Messiaen reference near the end?
2:28 or so is very Messiaen.
Great! Fantastic!
That was awesome!
I loved this one!
Fantastic!
bel pezzo stupendamente eseguito!!!
Masterpiece!
I hire him! It offers multiple composers for the price of just one.
Awesome!
OMG 10:13 this is real Music why is so difficult to find master piece like this in the last 50 years (or more)
Well I was listening to this at night I think I'll watch it in The daytime😂
Talk about having to count your ass off lol....sheesh.
No kidding. I can't imagine.
Chamber music? No. Orchestral music for four instruments? Yes.
It's not about the size of the group, it's about what are the strenghts of the group. But, I'm an old school composer and, after all these centuries, still consider string quartet as a conversation of four gentlemen. Sure it is capable of doing harsh dense textures or static soundscapes like here, but other ensembles (especially if electronics/computers are involved) do those things better.
I disagree. There is a dry tone and sharpness that only chamber music can achieve. please tell me another medium that can do sth like 3:10 to 4:50. That is SOOOO string quartet.
And your argument on its own is not without counter. You focus on one perspective of sting quartet only, isolating and disregarding the other components (harmony). If we change the subject of your argument from string quartet to fugues, then it is like saying 'fugues are only about interweaving melodies, sure you can create complex harmonies is fugues but a chorale is better suited.' You cannot dissect music and assign each medium one single aspect of/role in music.
Incredible...I can hear some of Schnittke's influence here...
Exhilarating!!!
That's exactly how my brain wörks
It is a sad little person who's compelled to shut out such beauty. Each to their own, but 'thumbing down' this piece is a bit like poo-pooing breath or love.
Liking this tells that you aren't ok. This isn't a breath or love but a pretentious piece of shitty elitist music that hurts your ears and doesn't really deserve to be called music. I'd rather call it "shitty noise". When people listen to music they are trying to find sounds that are throw us out to the music. This shitty noise just sounds like beehive combined with moving furniture, banging a piano with firsts and a street drill. High and annoying and dissonant noises are meant to torture, and surely this piece does torture your ears, mind and soul. This is far from breath or love and much more close to just a pile of stinky and smelly shit.
With "love" and "beauty", Mikkis
Mikkis "Shitty noise" describes all music, doesn't it? How are these sounds any different from the sounds of "real music"?
These sound annoying. If you tell me that something like high pitched dissonant sounds don't sound annoying, think why we use dissonant high pitches for sirens. Also dissonance is very present in this "music" which can be also considered to be noisy.
That's a pretty inaccurate description of the music, but I doubt you listened to the whole piece. Even still what is wrong with noise? I don't see how noise organized by time isn't music. Saying music that's dissonant isn't music is excluding so many amazing sounds and moods.
@@TheMikkis100 may i ask you to listen from 10:20? You can't tell me that that is "Shitty noise"... Also, listen to metal or rock music. If you consider this piece "shitty noise", why shouldn't these be too?
Oh hey, someone found a transcription of the George Crumb, Penderecki, Gyorgy Ligeti collaboration. :P
fantastico
This is genius.
Inspiring.
It's very 'hollywood'... in a good sense :)
Génial!
John Michet ñ
Blinding. This quartet radiates heat ...
It makes an appearance on this string quartet list: rateyourmusic.com/list/rm508/50ish-essential-string-quartets-for-fun-and-profit-1/
Music is a discovery and should be full of exploration. To feel all emotions and experience is crucial to good music. This however is music for a select few who can with experience appreciate.
Josélina Aygretto It helps to know a language in order to appreciate its highest achievements (poetry). Same goes for atonal language.
Nightmare on Ginza dori
powderfull
THALL
boh mera
Good music for a horror movie
The right questions is...WHY???
Try to contact the composer :D
:D :D
Because it sounds beautiful to an individual who has developed their ear to hear what is happening in the music.
Nøkken Oh.... please ! :)
rumen junior Shrugs, it isn't my problem.
Mituitkymykly de kiyyj
II iytittmikug
Ha ha ha!!! E cos'è questa cagata?
Certo, per essere una cagata colossale.
zaffiro61 Per me invece è questione d'intelligenza.
Io ascolto e apprezzo tutti i generi musicali, ma ovviamente tra essi non vi entra la impropriamente definita musica contemporanea, in quanto non voglio infangare il buon nome della «musica».
Ho tre diplomi al conservatorio (pianoforte, musica corale e direzione di coro, composizione) e in più ho conseguito il biennio specialistico in musica contemporanea con il massimo dei voti. È proprio in virtù di quest'ultimo che posso affermare con certezza e con una marea di prove schiaccianti che la musica contemporanea non ha niente a che vedere con la musica (motivo per il quale non la definisco «musica contemporanea» ma «arte sonora contemporanea»).
Se vado al pianoforte e metto di getto la mano sulla tastiera producendo un cluster, chi mi vede sostiene che abbia fatto una sorta di gioco. Se mi registro l'audio e lo porto ad un concorso, la commissione non esprimerà un giudizio, ma mi chiederà di illustrare la mia composizione con una conferenza (senza la quale non hanno la minima idea del progetto e filosofia nascosto nella composizione). A questo punto, se le mie argomentazioni non sono soddisfacenti per la commissione, la composizione sarà ritenuta una cagata, se invece sono convincenti, miracolosamente il tutto diventa «musica».
Ecco il discostamento della musica dall'arte sonora contemporanea: la musica non ha bisogno di essere spiegata e vola dritta al cuore delle persone, mentre la seconda ha necessariamente bisogno di una spiegazione che solo l'autore può dare.
Tirando una linea di somma, nell'arte sonora contemporanea si è strapieni di compositori cialtroni e truffatori: basta scrivere una mera cagata, giustificarla con una finta argomentazione (non ci vuole niente ad inventarsi una storiella di fantasia) e crogiolarsi sul fatto che chi la ascolta si fida del professionismo del compositore per autoconvincersi di aver ascoltato musica.
Grazie a Dio, sono argomentato in materia sufficientemente per poter essere più che sicuro di ciò che dico.
Quindi, facendo un esempio di altra arte contemporanea, le è volata al cuore anche «merda d'artista» del celebre Piero Manzoni?
Benissimo, quindi come vede, anche lei ha i suoi bordi per definire se un'opera artistica sia tale o una mera cagata. Pensi che ci sono delle persone che pagano fior di quattrini per andare a vedere tale «merda d'artista» di Piero Manzoni solo perché si fidano delle intenzioni dell'artista e per la sua consolidata fama.
Anch'io ho i miei bordi che fanno sì che stabilisca cosa sia musica e cosa sia arte sonora contemporanea che, il più delle volte, considero pura presa per il culo.