美國作曲家George Antheil：Ballet Mécanique 機械的芭蕾舞

George Antheil: 美國20世紀早期前衛作曲家， 鋼琴家， 作家， 發明家
他用現代作曲方式探索20世紀早期的現代聲響： 音樂，工業，機械

George Antheil (July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, mechanical – of the early 20th century.

Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the US in the 1930s, and thereafter spent much of his time composing music for films and, eventually, television. As a result of this work, his style became more tonal. A man of diverse interests and talents, Antheil was constantly reinventing himself. He wrote magazine articles (one accurately predicted the development and outcome of World War II), an autobiography, a mystery novel, newspaper and music columns. In 1941 he co-patented a "Secret Communications System" with actress Hedy Lamarr that used a code (stored on a punched paper tape) to synchronise random frequencies, referred to as frequency hopping, with a receiver and transmitter. This technique, which is now known as spread spectrum, is now widely used in





1924. Edited version. MIDI files and recommendations by Paul Lehrman.
Opéra de Lille, December 2012, Georges-Elie Octors (cond.)
Rosenblatt, De Cock, Bernat : xylophones | Quadruple bass drum : Gerrit Nulens.
The original title had been "Message to Mars" that he finally rejected.
"A one-movement piece of the form A-A-A-A" (George Antheil).


Percussions de l'Orchestre National de France
Emmanuel Curt, François Desforges, Cyril Gabai, Jean-Marc Garilli, Didier Lamarre, Florent Jodelet, Nicolas Martincyow & Gilles Rancitelli
Dimitri Vassilakis & Franz Michel, pianos