"I'd say that i had a need to... concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower." some of the most profound words i have ever heard.
The music is already so beautiful that it hurts, but having its creator himself guide us through the labyrinthine complexity that so few and simple tones are capable of creating, that verges on the sublime! What an experience! Also great to see the simplicity and humility of a great genius who doesn't behave like a star and is in fact as humbled and awed as we are by the emotions he just reveals us. Incredible video!
@@tarukofusuki "To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour" William Blake
@@tarukofusuki I don't keep quoting: I quoted (one time). And I don't understand what is offensive for you. We can think different, no problem. For me he is giving an image to the students could apprehend the essence of his composition, even he said "I don't understand myself". iIt's nothing technical, is poetic and even philosofic, that I won't try to explain you. Because seeing your agressivity, your eagerness to be right, your demand about evidence sand the mention of money, doesn't worth to explain to you, you don't have sensivity enough to understand what he says or what he plays.
@@tarukofusuki nothing cute about his analogy at all. Every pause, every note, has equal value just as a flower is as important and equally as mysterious as grass. I don’t think he’s attempting to impress anyone, to me he’s so egoless and humble - very beautiful he almost looks translucent to me. I would never say nobody cares about what he’s trying to say. What are you saying he is really talking about? What don’t we get? His simplicity is what makes his music so deep and beyond any logical human thought. Did you ever listen to Cantus with the Hilliard ensemble? It’s five minutes long, and it’s one of the most beautiful pieces I know. I watched him humbly giving the conductor instruction as well as rewriting parts of original scores and he somehow gets the musicians via the conductor to produce the precise sound he wanted when composing the piece. His sweetness on Tabula Rasa can bring tears to my eyes. I love Arvo Pärt 💐🌱🌱🎹🎻🎻🎻🔔
What I like the most about this video is the struggle Arvo Part has in translating between mediums. There is a sense of poetic aphasia, an honest struggle to put into words what has come to him loud and clear in music. I lack the profound sensibility to fully grasp the significance of the voices he invokes, but it is not hard to get a glimpse of the invocations, and it is not hard to see how he is unable to express it in words. He knows it...
Pärt feels his melody is neutral, but searches for another word.. I think he himself noticed, how neutrality is relative. When it is neutral to him, it is because it doesn't differ from his own personality. For me the melody is much like Arvo Pärt himself in this video - it is carefull, restrained, excited, fearfull, introverted.. Most of all very, very human. Arvo Pärts Alina is Extremely beautiful music, Every note bears a meaning here - as he noticed, in this piece there is a need to concentrate on each and every note. For me it seems like a kind of perfectionism, take your mind off the piece, break the meditation, and the world will crumble.
I think he was trying to say that the individual notes sound neutral, when played individually, but when played together, they form a shifting relationship that can no longer be regarded as neutral.
I find this to be exquisite. The simplicity of this piece is profound and his sensitivity for the texture of sound is inspiring. His music is deeply stirring.
I recommend you to listen the "Sanctus" from the Berliner Mass, from Mr Pärt. Probably the most amazing and moving piece i have heard in my entire life.
This is sublime!! To hear the artist describe so poetically his thought process for a work of art.. I'm humbled, and grateful to RU-vid for moments like this...thanks for posting!
Wonderful to have this opportunity to listen him describing his mindset and his approach to composing music. Thing that I miss about the composers from the past
Hello! could you write the sentence in Estonian "A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower"... I would really appreciate it.
@@matiasvikingr6254 "Mul oli vajadus niisuguse [järele], ma nimetaksin seda neutraalsuseks, kus niimoodi kontsentreeruda iga heli peale, et igal rohuliblel oleks nagu lille staatus." This is the full phrase he said, starting with "I'd say that I had a need to..." It's a fairly incomplete sentence by him, not quite the best way to present the sentence, but that is how he said it. The part you requested may sound better this way: "Vajadus kontsentreeruda igale helile nii, et igal rohuliblel oleks nagu lille staatus."
@@johannessarapuu559 oh thank you very much!!, specially for the good explanation!. I find Pärt one of the, if not The most, enigmatic and interesting composers of recent times. Thanks again!
we're so proud, that we have a composer like this. he has brought estonia to the world. and his pieces .... there aren't any words to his music, it's beautiful, although, it's too less to say to his music. it's powerful. when somebody plays it, you just stop for a second, your heart misses a beat and you just listen to this and you are so into it and ... it can't be described. in my head, some weird things happen. i'm telling you, this music just conquers you and you are into it.
Right. A piece of music does not need tobe "difficult" in order to be profound and beautiful. More people, especially musicians, need to understand this.
You said it! What I gift this man is. I love this guy. Love his remarks at the end about the composer's path, the 1st & 2nd notes, "the first step is everything - decisive" and "every time I feel I have to start from scratch". He is so brilliant, his heart is what's beautiful - so childlike. He is a man who most understands that music is also for edification. (The close-up-loving world-wide music industry scene / crowd really turns my stomach, to be frank...not being smarty, it does.)
@blackynth Concept is key. Understanding why one makes the art one does is vital to being an artist. Putting paint on a canvas with absolutely no idea why you did it is pointless in most circumstances. Obviously, Part has a very strong conceptual idea concerning his work, as he should. He's a brilliant artist. I don't see this interview as much as a "master class on how to create art" but rather a helpful and inspiring insight into just one artist's practice.
What philosophy! There is so much depth, breadth and height to music to discover that most of us in the worlds are morons who are happy skimming the surface and stop at tantalizing only our 5 senses without knowing how to use them. Part taps into the genius of understanding that is there for us to discover but never do. Music is so much more than beat and rhythm. There is a philosophy, a will, a dynamic of life there that we don't take the time to understand. How profound Part is here!
This piece is undoubtedly a masterpiece. Just because it's not technically hard to play doesn't mean that (compositionally speaking) every note is not thought through with the utmost care. The deepest emotions seem to be expressed through this simple-sounding music.
A sign of a masterpiece is that every note has its place. Nothing superfluous. One of the great things about Pärt's music is that he gives such importance to the individual note. You can buy the sheet music for this and I think Universal Edition are generously putting some of Pärt's sheet music online for free download.
I beg your pardon, I'm translating this for an italian friend of mine. Domanda dal pubblico: "Diamo un'occhiata ad Alina...?" 0:21 "Vi mostrerò l'inizio" 0:23 "Non mi piace questo timbro, ne userò uno più risonante". 0:42 "Ascoltate questa voce..." 0:56 "...Piuttosto neutrale" 1:08 "Anche, neutrale..." 1:11 "Entrambe, insieme" 1:26 "Un po' più serio, o complicato" 1:33 "Come due persone, le cui parti sembrano attraversarsi le une alle altre, ma non si incontrano" 2:00 "C'è una certa neutralità, qui... Direi che ho avuto una specie di bisogno di... No, non la chiamerei neutralità... Ho bisogno di concentrarmi su ciascun suono. In modo tale che ogni filo d'erba sia importante quanto un fiore. Questo è... 3:00 Potrebbe essere come un malfunzionamento di una radiolina, sicché ogni singolo segnale a volte sembra testimoniare casualmente una vita intera. O il futuro, o il passato, o qualcosa fuori del tempo. E' come se io dicessi che un filo d'erba ha l'importanza di un fiore, e vedessi in questa esile frase musicale qualcosa di più rispetto ai soli tasti bianchi e neri. 3:36 E poi... 3:46 Tenete questa nota... 3:59 Non è tanto la tonalità ad essere importante, qui, ma è la combinazione con questa triade (di note). Questo rende uno speciale sentimento di unione, e l'anima comincia a narrarla senza fine. Ascoltate... 4: 48 E così, ancora... Io immagino il direttore d'orchestra fare il gesto del braccio in levare, quando tutto l'insieme ha inizio. Noi non possiamo ancora sentire nulla. E la gente nella sala da concerto non sa cosa stia per accadere. Poi il direttore traccia il tempo in levare... Il levare, quello in cui alza la mano... Ecco, quell'istante contiene la formula dell'intero lavoro: il suo carattere, la dinamica, il tempo... E un mucchio di altre cose. Il direttore e i musicisti lo sanno per via della pratica svolta assieme. Io immagino il compositore nella stessa posizione, prima che cominci a scrivere. Lui deve avere la consapevolezza o una percezione di quello che sta per accadere quando la mano va giù. Qual è la prima nota...? E qual è la seconda...? Il primo passo è tutto, è decisivo...! Questa è una storia complicata e io non mi capisco granché da solo... Però ho un'idea di cosa voglio dire. Già, io sono sempre alla ricerca di questo: qualche volta mi viene facilmente, ma qualche volta non mi viene per niente. Ogni volta sento che devo cominciare da una lacerazione.
775987mb Ciao. Mi permetto di fare una micro-correzione alla tua traduzione. Spero risulti utile al tuo amico e ad altri italiani che si imbattano in questa piccola meraviglia. Nella parte finale del suo discorso dice più precisamente: "quasi non capisco me stesso." E, in chiusura, quello "start from scratch" è un modo di dire che significa "ripartire da zero". Molto bella l'immagine della 'lacerazione' tuttavia. Chissà che Pärt non avesse davvero quella in mente... :)
Great the composer himself, not on a nice intrument but that does not matter. His style is brilliant. And what a fine attidude that the composer is willing to talk about his way of composing.
@donniecatalano For those of us who think he is creating a numinous world, rather than describing it, his music is a source of great fascination. You don't have to be a craven fanboy, or approve of everything he does and believes to appreciate its beauty.
Arvo in my OPINION is ONE OF the more brilliant composers of our time. He has HIS approach as other fine contemporary composers have THEIRS. My inclination to his work does not mean that other composers are less qualitatively. There are different approaches to music as there are different approaches to fine art. I can not judge Arvo to be better or worse than Hovhanness, or Copeland. etc. They each make a contribution to the literature.
Part explica aqui el drma existencial de todo creador.Saber lo que se va a crear,no tener claro como comenzar,o teniendolo,ignorar lo que sigue.Sin un borrador..siempre improvisando..asi es como se compone cualquier cosa:un escrito,una melodia,o se esculpe una pieza..La simplicidad que le imprime sublime belleza a su musica es la misma de la naturaleza.Como si se cumpliera con un algoritmo cosmico,el creador que se apart de esta regla de oro es artificial y no "llega".
His from Estonia, so am I. He's probably the most famous Estonian ever.. Estonia always seems to want fame, but it's such a small country ( 1,3 million people) that even estonian songs being played in US dance shows make it into Estonian songs. :)
