When I heard 15 minutes and 30 seconds in this video, my attention was attracted by a gradually louder intro. When this work reached the loudest, I felt very nervous with the sound, just like I was watching a horror film which have background music before the horror clip. I searched the full version of this work on YouTube. This is Metastaseis by Iannis Xenakis. When I heard this work, I was very shocked. The work slowly changed from loud to climax, then decreased from the highest point to mild, then slowly rose to the top, and finally faded out. I think this work is like watching a thriller movie. I have a sense of picture after listening. When I close my eyes and listen, I seem to be in an imaginary movie scene.
Moreover, I think the ending of this work is very meaningful. I remember that this sound work is very similar to a thriller short film I saw a long time ago. The story is about a very rainy day in the countryside. A man didn’t bring an umbrella and have no means of transportation. A kind man took him in and gave him some food, The man felt very warm, but when he entered the bedroom given to him by the kind man, the furniture and smell in the bedroom were very strange and pungent. The man didn’t dare to refuse the kind man, so he stayed. In the midnight, the man was shocked by thunder. He looked at the dark place. He felt that he always felt a pair of eyes looking at him. At last the man heard someone knocking on his room door. The story ends here. So I think the structure of this story is very similar to that of Metastaseis。
Iannis Xenakis is a Greek French, composer, musician, musician and director. Xenakis took the lead in using mathematical models in music, such as the application of set theory, stochastic process and game theory, and also had an important impact on the development of electronics and music and computer music.
Every musician in the work has his own role. No two are the same. This work is very unusual. His work feels like establishing a balanced environment in chaos and regularity, which can make the listener have more comfortable senses.