Best Of 800% Slower #3 - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2017
- Original track here: • Arvo Pärt Cantus in me...
Quoted from: jayarava.org/cantus.html
"Arvo Part's biographer suggests that "how we live depends on our relationship with death: how we make music depends on our relationship to silence". [9] It is death that sparks this piece. The characteristic Buddhist response to death is to search for the deathless. In the story of the four sights the Buddha-to-be goes forth into homelessness, into the unknown, in order to solve the problems of old age, sickness and death. In listening to Cantus, especially for the first time, we go into the unknown. The bell heralds death, it is the funeral bell and the initial response is instability. The first few bars seem to teeter on the edge of chaos, and we may be asking ourselves: "is this going to be one of those discordant, morbid, 'modern' works?". But soon things settle into a more recognisable pattern, and the entry of the lower voiced, slower moving instruments provides much needed stability. The quest has begun, each voice begins searching downwards, repeatedly pushing lower and lower, seeking something. The result is a sonorous tapestry, swirling with colour and unexpected conjunctions of tension and relaxation, which result not from the whim of the composer, but come from the structure of the canon itself.
And then one by one each voice finds the pitch it has been seeking, sustains it until the end, which is more than 250 beats in the case of the 1st violins. The spiritual life is like this. We search around looking for answers to the big questions. Then when we find the Dharma, we don't get answers, but we get practices which can take us to a place where the questions are transcended. Once we have the practices it's just a matter of sawing away until we reach the goal. We do this on an ever deeper level until at last the light of Bodhi dawns, and we are transformed in the deepest level of our being. As the double basses finally hit their note there is a palpable sense of relief, of relaxation combined with energy.
And then suddenly the music stops - or almost. In this moment there is a sense of spiritual death. As Bodhi dawns we die to our old self, our old self-centeredness. But with spiritual death there is spiritual renewal, and even though we don't hear the striking of the bell, it is struck, and rings on after the reverberations of the strings have died away. This last bell is the opening of the door to the deathless, or perhaps more prosaically it is the opening of the imagination to the possibility of the deathless. At this point there is little more to be said, since Nirvana is ineffable. And so we return to silence, once again written into the score. But this is not the silence of the absence of sound. It is the silence that is sound, and the sound is silence."
Absolutely transporting. Thank you for this gift. Truly. I am mourning the devastating loss of my mother...and listening to this feels like a balm for my broken heart.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is just stunning. Slowing it down seems to reveal all these hidden harmonics and voices and textures. Thank you.
Here is music calling my spirit to break out and fly upwards. Such depth and heights these powerful notes give to me in this dark.dark world. Thank you for giving me light coming from this beautiful music. Danke
Thank you
Sceptical at first. Don't touch this perfect work! A couple of minutes in, I completely changed my mind. It is a superb & respectful digital rendering of a classic. I love it. The description is quite excellent too. Thanks for uploading this, Kenny. Brilliant idea.
I totally agree. This is ethereal.
@@ellenxsw 🙌😊
Mi angelito querido mi pequeña te extraño eternamente algun día te abrazaré y no dejare q me sueltes por q tu eres mi luz... Diosito te puso en mi camino para decirme aqui estoy por siempre a tu lado te cuidare por toda la eternidad
Y yo descubri un angelito aquella noche q seria mi luz eterna mi guia y mi destino final.. Mi alma se unira a ti cuando mis alas se abran y volaremos a las estrellas hacia ese lugar mágico q creamos dond no existe ya la muerte ni el dolor mi peqeña.. No olvides q te recuerdo todos los días d mi vida hasta mi último aliento
Mi querida y siempre recordada Angelito siete años ya desde q me dejaste solo y desconsolado con tu partida hacia la eternidad dl recuerdo y la nostalgia d tu dulce mirada q me conmovía el alma mis lagrimas Nunca se secaran al cerrar mis ojos y pensar en ti como mi pequeña amiga venida d las Estrellas q cambio mi forma d ver el mundo para siempre jamás te olvidare cuando cierre mis ojos finalmente lo único q deseo es verte nuevamente e irme a tu lado como un niño chiquito con su perrita al lugar q tu y yo solo sabemos hasta pronto
beautiful!!
Meravigliosa
Celestial, cosmic...
A travers l’œuvre ultime du compositeur Arvo Pärt les orthodoxes nous préviennent de ce vers quoi nous sommes tous en train d'aller ! . . .Et mon Occident s'entête à faire la sourde oreille et se cramponne stupidement à son refus immature d'avouer ses fautes face au grand Est ! Misérable nous sommes à l'Ouest !!
Through the final work of composer Arvo Pärt, the Orthodox warn us of what we are all heading towards! . . .And my West persists in turning a deaf ear and stupidly clings to its immature refusal to admit its faults in the face of the great East! Miserable we are in the West!!
Este es. Un homenaje a ti mi qerida angelita yo fui el afortunado d haberte conocido esa noche desde allí tu eres mi mamita q. Me. Cuida por siempre feliz día mamita
If death had a soundtrack...
Death is a change of dimension. Yes, and in this case, the music really expresses transcendence.
very good, can't say much more than that.
I would think the second half of Part's Tabula Rasa would lend itself to better effect at 800% slowed down than this canonic exercise in descending diatonic scales.
Thank you for this emotional 'interpretation' of Pärt's wonderfully sad Cantus. What software is ideal to stretch music in this way? I have a 6 minute piece I'd like to stretch to 40-60 minutes.
Hi, and thanks. The software I use is called simply "Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch", you can download it here.
oopps here: www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/pauls_extreme_sound_stretch.html
wow
Pero q es la. Memoria? Es la delicada frontera q. Separa la vida y el más allá. La infinita nostalgia q nos invade q acaso y es la prueba q existe la otra vida luego d la. Vida. Aquellos q partieron hacia la. Eternidad dl recuerdo jamás su luz se extinguirá por q fueron luz q iluminaron las tinieblas a ti mi homenaje a un ser maravilloso de luz q guió mis días d sombra
Aqui estoy buscame tu eres el reflejo de lo q soy mi alma divaga en tu compañía por. Toda la. Eternidad no temere a nada por q tu deslumbrante luz siempre me iluminará.. Llevate mi alma
Just wow. I love this slowed version. Without ordering you, would it be possible to have a 400% slowed too pleeeeaaase ?
(With the x2 of YTB the quality is bad)
@@sarje1721 My PC is screwed at the moment. Here is a link to the slowdown program@ you just load in the music and change ot to x4 instead of x8 and render it out: hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/
Its called 'Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch'. If you can't do it, let me know and I'll do it when I get my PC fixed, might take a while tho.
You cannot mix up Arvo Pärt's devotion to Hesychasm and Eastern Christian Mysticism with buddhist philosophy. Although Arvo Pärt's former and well-known spiritual father - Archimandrite Sophrony - practiced far eastern meditation for a while...
But still well done (video & description)!
Its not a mix-up, its a reality, at least those not blinkered by their adherence to / or vanity about their faith, whether it is Christian, Buddhist, etc, realize that prayer is but a form of meditation, regardless of the Religion or its dogma.
These latter style Part pieces are about inducing a state of meditation / ecstasy via a kind of virtual musical stasis.
@@MuseDuCafe I completely agree with you. Buddhism is a syncretic philosophy at heart. "lessthandust" seems intent to pursue a divisive view which, well, you've already unpacked it. I think the Tibetan translation of prayer is simply "wish path". Quite pragmatic & universally applicable. The actual practice of praying earnestly is indeed a form of meditation, requiring single-pointed concentration. The wish to experience Ultimate Truth through devotion, meditation and naturally produced altered states of consciousness (such as through intense prayer or, indeed, music) would be no secret to Arvo Pärt. He isn't a sectarian.That's an insult.
I completely agree with you. The music and its author have nothing to do with Buddhism... Christianity speaks of God and therefore Pärt's music. Nothing to do with the emptiness and nothingness of Buddha. On the contrary, it is about living fully, pure joy and getting closer to who we really are. And we are created in the image of God. Death leads you close to God which is the path of life or far from God which is true death, the latter. Choose wisely and pursue Christ rather than Buddha.
Lleva mi espíritu a tu lado déjame volar contigo Cúando se abran mis alas y cubreme con tu mirada infinita no me.abandones.. Te extraño eternamente. Llegará el día en q nos encontremos en el paraíso.. Y yo siendo un niño correré junto a ti junto a uds mis angelitos en Un bosque encantado dond no existe la muerte
thx for the software link
Anoche me. Encontré en sueños contigo amiguito querido q bueno saber q estas muy bien.. Y q pude abrazarte y tenerte a mi lado..no qeria despertar d mi sueño qedarme a tu lado por q estoy mas lejos d la vida q nunca antes.. Adiós mi amigo qerido mi angelito se acerca el día q te enviare por simepre a las estrellas