Tristan Murail - Désintégrations (1982-83)

Murail is associated with the "spectral" technique of composition, which involves the use of the fundamental properties of sound as a basis for harmony, as well as the use of spectral analysis, FM, RM, and AM synthesis as a method of deriving polyphony.

Major pieces by Murail include large orchestral pieces such as Gondwana, Time and Again and, more recently, Serendib and L'esprit des dunes. Other pieces include his Désintégrations for 17 instruments and tape, Mémoire/Erosion for French horn and nine instruments Ethers for flute and ensemble, Winter Fragments, for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello and electronics as well as Vampyr! for electric guitar.

Murail also composed a set of solo pieces for various instruments in his cycle Random Access Memory, of which the sixth, Vampyr!, is a rare classical piece for electric guitar. Vampyr! is one of several works in Murail's catalogue that do not employ spectral techniques. Rather, in the performance notes, the composer asks the performer to play the piece in the manner of guitarists in the popular and rock traditions, such as Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton.

Among Murail's awards are the Prix de Rome (presented by the French Académie des beaux-arts in 1971), the Grand Prix du Disque (1990), and the Grand Prix du Président de la République, Académie Charles Cros (1992).

Murail's works are published by Éditions Transatlantiques and Éditions Henry Lemoine. His music has been recorded on the Una Corda, Metier, Adés, and MFA-Radio France labels.

video created with vokoscreen and Sonic Visualizer on a Kubuntu 14.04 LTS Linux System.

[joneszilla]

This is some of the most beautiful music I've ever listened to.

[gerardbegni]

Trisran Murail is ; with Gérard Grisey who passed away prematurely, a major if not the heir of the so-calles "xpectral" school. Although based upon strict physical sound analysis, the inventivity of the composr is not inhibited:; it can switch to other parameters tan usual, including the second Viennes e and the Darmstadt schools. Murail and Grisey left us many poetic scores if we accept to listend to nrw soundings. Their influence upon sucha composer than Kaija Saariaho is great.

[_grahamjacobson]

I. 0:00
II. 2:52
III. 6:40
IV. 10:02
V. 10:50
VI. 11:50
VII. 14:43
VIII. 15:55
IX. 16:16
X. 17:28
XI. 19:21

[brearddidier]

The Inventors of the Spectral Music were inspired by Giacinto Scelsi and Gyorgy Ligeti, so they couldn't be wrong! I'm a big fan of Tristan Murail. And I enjoy too the music of his pupils, like Julian Anderson, Joshua Fineberg and so on..

[hatephone]

the chord at 10:50 is my favorite chord in music, i think

[sonicsnap]

Imo, spectralism is the best thing that happened to contemporary music at the end of the twentieth century!

[sytsew]

Seeing the spectral visualisation together with hearing the piece (for the first time, in my case) really does add to the experience, actually - and not meant in some pseudo-psychedelic way. Interesting interplay between anticipation ("oh god, there's some wave coming!") and sonic surprises ("that sounds much more different than it looks!"). Higher resolution (and more colours) please! :)

[arastoomii]

Wow this actually calmed the shid out of me

[pianomanhere]

Discovered this piece several years ago and have loved it ever since.

[MegaCirse]

Manmaolek na kanta siha para un taitai i suhetibu na fina'tinas i mappot siha ya un li'e' yan un åmko' na matan i lina'la' i trongko siha; agradesi i komplikao na tinige' i ramas siha ni' manma'a'atan, tåsta i kulot i lina'la' i atdao gi i hånom gi un tinanom, sentungo' i hånom gi i tano' i manåmko' para un li'e' i trastes i gå'ga' siha ginen i tiempon antigu 🤗🤠

[OwlThrower]

This evokes visions of gems and some archetypal mythical creatures with spectral changes of color and light, mixing earth and sky together in my imagination

[laninqko]

Phenomenal work! Magnify my inner senses like a transition into other unworldly worlds.

[Protonixum]

Chef D'œuvre de Tristan dans sa veine spatiale !!!

[fredquantik]

musique éclectique de murail nous transporte après toutes les années électro acoustiques d après guerre, désintégration nous plonge dans un mysticisme cosmique que l hermétisme contribuera a nous faire transcender le matérialisme conceptuel des créateurs abstraits contemporains, ,

[grahamexeter]

Spectacular! A mini supernova in slow motion!

[wazzpqazzza]

Having the spectrograph set to linear mode is crazy, because I almost never see it, we're used to log10 based spectrographs but this is really interesting because a lot of the harmonics and and sounds are *equidistant* in wavelength. This doesn't sound equidistant, it usually sounds jarring (which is kinda true for this) but it certainly looks interesting.

[SlasherMatt]

Found this piece while studying Curtis Roads Manual and I literally got stuck listening to this instead of reading the book, dammit

[narelamartinez]

Cuales son los parámetros que se destacan???

[pierluigisalsano]

Chiedo cortesemente se posso campionare piccoli brani suoi....
Grazie
Ps non faccio nulla se lei non mi da il permesso, trovo interessante il suo lavoro....
Pier Luigi

[alexandrecarbonel]

Logarithmic > Linear representation of the spectrum