Album: Clocks and Clouds Artist: Gyorgy Ligeti - San Francisco Symphony Conductor : Esa-Pekka Salonen Choir : San Fransisco Symphony Choir Genre: #Classical ℹ️About The Album : While residing in the Bay Area in the early 1970s, Ligeti came across with the music of Terry Riley and Steve Reich, and was intrigued by the similarities between their seminal minimalist scores and his own micropholyphonic writing. These findings were channeled into a compositional process resulting in Clocks and Clouds. As suggested by its title, there are two kinds of musical processes at play. First, there are superimposed, phased-out, pulsating patterns, somewhat akin to those of Reich and Riley, and then then there are gorgeous, static, cloud-like formations of harmony and timbre. These processes trade through myriad of vocal and instrumental combinations, giving rise to an ever-transforming, gradually shape-shifting sonic firmament. Vocal and instrumental lines are joined in Clocks and Clouds (1972-73), one of Ligeti’s absolute masterpieces, scored for twelve-part female choir and an orchestra of triple, quadruple and quintuple winds, two trumpets, metallic percussion, two harps and lower strings. 💭Thoughts : It invokes a feeling of fog settling over a lake that spans the whole aperture of our vision, vastness slowly being draped in a thick curtain of a white out. You have to experience it, to understand it. Featured Tracks: ✨Clocks and Clouds. #ClocksAndClouds #SanFranciscoSymphony #GyorgyLigeti #Music #MusicReview #KANSASreviews #Musik_Co_ #TasteYourMusic #PsyNok #Psyn0k #FavouriteTracks https://www.instagram.com/p/CqTauwuyghX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=