DOI Artikel:
Antheil, George: My ballet mecanique: what it means
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As I have already said, my Ballet Mecanique has under no circumstances,
and at no point a single motion or movement that does not come out of time.
For the first time on earth time have been used under its fundamental prin-
ciples in the single art in which it is fundamentally conceived . . . or better, in
the single art which is fundamentally conceived out of time.
or the
Dolbin
will have
hour, nor
hours, or
The
Time is inflexible, rigid, beautifull
Time is the very stuff out of which life is made.
My Ballet Mecanique has
a closer connection to life
than any of the tonal music
that preceded it. But it is
a musical and not a literary
connection.
In my Ballet Mecanique,
I offer you, for the first time, j
music hard and beautiful as
a diamond.
The Ballet Mecanique differs from the
work of every living composer in that it
trys to attain a single and gigantic form.
All others simply write pieces that last
only a few moments one after the other.
They write suites, and call them sonatas,
operas, symphonies ... all these parades
are of no consequence to me.
Some time in the future we
forms which will not last a half
an hour, but eight hours, sixteen
two days. This is not romancing.
reason lies in the fact that we have dis-
covered the new and true dimension of
music and its basic principles which insure
larger and almost endless forms.
The Ballet Mecanique is the first piece
in the World to be conceived in one piece
without Interruption, like a solid shaft of
Steel.
I am now writing a work which is four
hours long and without interruption
break of a second’s time.
After that I shall write one which is ten hours long. I started with mechanism
and pieces that were only a minute long.
Even these produced hysteria and riots. The time was too short, and the
nuclei too explosive. A few concerts throughout Europe and I retired to my
laboratory. Now I hope to present you not with an explosion, but the fourth
dimension .... the first physical realization of the fourth dimension.
I am not presenting you with an abstraction. I am presenting you with a
physicality like sexual intercourse.
Paris, May 1925.
Qeorge Antheil.
791
and at no point a single motion or movement that does not come out of time.
For the first time on earth time have been used under its fundamental prin-
ciples in the single art in which it is fundamentally conceived . . . or better, in
the single art which is fundamentally conceived out of time.
or the
Dolbin
will have
hour, nor
hours, or
The
Time is inflexible, rigid, beautifull
Time is the very stuff out of which life is made.
My Ballet Mecanique has
a closer connection to life
than any of the tonal music
that preceded it. But it is
a musical and not a literary
connection.
In my Ballet Mecanique,
I offer you, for the first time, j
music hard and beautiful as
a diamond.
The Ballet Mecanique differs from the
work of every living composer in that it
trys to attain a single and gigantic form.
All others simply write pieces that last
only a few moments one after the other.
They write suites, and call them sonatas,
operas, symphonies ... all these parades
are of no consequence to me.
Some time in the future we
forms which will not last a half
an hour, but eight hours, sixteen
two days. This is not romancing.
reason lies in the fact that we have dis-
covered the new and true dimension of
music and its basic principles which insure
larger and almost endless forms.
The Ballet Mecanique is the first piece
in the World to be conceived in one piece
without Interruption, like a solid shaft of
Steel.
I am now writing a work which is four
hours long and without interruption
break of a second’s time.
After that I shall write one which is ten hours long. I started with mechanism
and pieces that were only a minute long.
Even these produced hysteria and riots. The time was too short, and the
nuclei too explosive. A few concerts throughout Europe and I retired to my
laboratory. Now I hope to present you not with an explosion, but the fourth
dimension .... the first physical realization of the fourth dimension.
I am not presenting you with an abstraction. I am presenting you with a
physicality like sexual intercourse.
Paris, May 1925.
Qeorge Antheil.
791