TITLE: Ligeti's Poeme Symphonique
NAME: Francois Dispot
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: wozzeck@club-internet.fr
WEBPAGE: www.geocities.com/vienna/7709
TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment
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JPGFILE: fdligeti.jpg
ZIPFILE: fdligeti.zip
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IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


In september 1963, the hungarian composer Gy_rgy Ligeti created in Hilversum
(Netherland) his "Po_me Symphonique", for 100 metronomes. The audience did not
know what they were going to listen to, and at the end of the concert, the
scandal was so intense that the TV film of the event was not broadcasted as it
should have been, and its later broadcasting was forbidden...

The idea is simple: take 100 metronomes, wind them to a different level, set
them to differet speeds, and unleash all of them at the same time. The initial
chaos slowly gets more organized, as more and more metronomes stop, until there
is only one that finally stops. The full process lasts about 20 minutes. If you
want to get an idea of what it sounds like, Sony Classical recently published a
recording of this piece in their 5th part of Ligeti's complete works (ref. SK
62310).


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Everything was designed by hand, making an extensive use of "function" includes.
Motion blur was achieved by a -quite hairy- hand-made computation of "exposure"
time of each different section of each part of the metronomes, leading to
gradient+wood+average textures. There is neither post-processing, nor patch
here! This gave the Magazine picture.

Then this picture was included in another one to display the magazine.
Everything was made at antialias 0.0 to keep the maximum amount of details.