I'm a great fan of Ligeti. He captivated me ever since I heard the second movement of the second string quartet as a standalone piece during a concert. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!
This music takes us back to the human situation. A small fearful animal lost in a huge world where everything is effort to survive being counscious of something taller than us and relentless. This is Ligeti and this is 2001.
Could listen to this for years and still be mystified by the meaning of it all. It has taken me half a lifetime to figure out the true meaning behind the movie and Arthur C. Clarke's novel...and it's still incomphrensible. 40+ years of watching, reading, and listening should have by now given me a clear answer!
Apart from the imaginative musical selections, they accurately depicted space walks a year before we actually landed a man on the moon in 1969! The film is simply iconic.
In many things today it can be said that reality has surpassed fiction when asked "do you think Hal has intelligence" they say "he's programmed to act as if he does" and we can say this today also of many software and computer programs, they act as if they had intelligence but they are programmed to act as if they have it, just like in 2001
The answer is clear. It is a triptych formed by a common denominator, the black monolith. The end when the astronaut is in a kind of classic room, and those strange voices are heard, they are the aliens who are talking and deliberating what they want to do with him, it represents that he is inside a box or room, decorated with elements of the Earth so that he feels more accompanied, but look at the environment of the room, it is very artificial. Actually, the classic furniture is hollow boxes, the lighting is not on the ceiling, it is on the floor, this is totally absurd, and He walks above squares of white light The aliens that are not seen but heard talk about their things, and they have prepared these special rooms for you imitating things on Earth And Commander Woman in the classic room prepared for him, there he does not feel so much nostalgia for Earth
This feels like it could have been used in the V'ger Wormhole scene from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), with Jerry Goldsmith's music mixed in between Ligeti's haunting score...
@@acbulgin2 The Visual/Musical edit is not that which is in the Film and I am complimenting the interpretation in the sequence of clips chosen here to gracefully align with the time duration of Ligeti's composition.
Dave Bowman at the beginning of this video looks like me at 530 am alarm goes off and no caffeine in my bloodstream....just a quivering mass of imbecility....not quite human but still alive....barely....
