Gyorgy Ligeti is dead. For those who don't know, he's a composer, whose music was used without permission by Stanley Kubrick in the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'm not a big fan avant garde music, but the stuff of his I've listened to so far is some of the creepiest, most atmospheric I've ever heard - and would make a perfect backdrop for the wrong parts of a game of Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Insylum, or perhaps Puppetland (Hmmm... I detect a certain Tynes / Detwiller theme there...) I've been meaning to acquire a CD of his Lux Aeterna (used for the lunar surface in 2001) for some time now, and hopefully this will spur me into action...
Instead of just getting "Lux Aeterna", I recommend getting the whole "2001" soundtrack, it has other very cool avant garde music on it too.
ReplyDeleteI already have it, and I've just acquired his Requiem (used for the Monolith); what I need to get is Atmospheres (used for "Beyond the Infinite").
ReplyDeleteThere was a wonderful obituary on "The World" (BBC4 TV/BBC World weekday mornings at 7am)
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