Gyorgy Ligeti: "Hungarian Rock"

I remembered this Ligeti piece while I was walking in the woods. I thought I would create a dummy account on youtube and put it online, but someone had done it before me. No need for doing anything illegal this time, then.

The music is like... I dunno.... like deranged circus music played by a dwarf on speed in a Werner Herzog movie.

It's not being played by a human being - it has been programmed into a mechanical barrel organ. It's from the Ligeti CD "Mechanical Music". The Mechanical music of Ligeti was inspired by the player piano music of Conlon Nancarrow.



(I like the picture on the youtube clip too. It fits the music very well)