David Bruce Composer | The M.C.Escher of Music? @DBruce | Uploaded July 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Who is the master of musical illusions? The Music equivalent of M.C.Escher? Escher himself would probably say J.S.Bach but in this video I make the case for Hungarian composer György Ligeti, whose work is full of Musical Illusions. In this video I look at the following musical illusions:

03:36 The Infinite Loop Illusion (The Shepard Tone)
06:37 The Risset Tone
07:31 Multiple Speeds illusion
09:20 The Imaginary Melody Illusion
11:22 The Negative Space Illusion
12.54 Frozen Time Illusion
15:15 Fractal Spiral Illusion


Finally I question why there is a difference in reception - Ligeti highly respected in the music establishment, but less well known to the general public, whereas Escher is hugely popular with the public and somewhat looked down on by the establishment. Why??

Thanks to Ptit Rockeur youtube.com/watch?v=KAkad94uXa8 and Sintagma Piano Duo for permission to include clips of their music

#ligeti #musicalillusions

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Pieces
6 Bagatelles for wind quintet
youtube.com/watch?v=txMWXvD8kL4
Complete Etudes youtube.com/watch?v=XHhZ2TzHlow
Atmosphères youtube.com/watch?v=RCNzwdLwA8g
Ligeti Étude Nr. 1 "Désordre" youtube.com/watch?v=qj9QlWltv8s
Ligeti Studies Book 1 youtube.com/watch?v=6WHdNub6Agk
Yuja Wang plays Ligeti's Fanfares youtube.com/watch?v=H1tzFW8Pqqg
Ligeti Devil's Staircase youtube.com/watch?v=uoLam2O3gtY
Piano Concerto youtube.com/watch?v=gUMVopBUANw
Continuum youtube.com/watch?v=kKjuT0IvS7k
Chamber Concerto youtube.com/watch?v=hboFvSaKUHU
Samuel Andreyev's Analysis of Ligeti's Chamber Concerto: youtube.com/watch?v=eswrq0QToZo


Research

Risset rhythms
pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2de1/e9505baf81121d1622e0470d09cc48577f3a.pdf?_ga=2.209892892.841996332.1594491656-2145466058.1594105826
Auditory Streams in Ligeti's Continuum: A Theoretical and Perceptual Approach
pdfs.semanticscholar.org/525b/59ffbba68aee2d263452c03f54ef257d9ad8.pdf
Diana Deutsch has a lot of research on musical illusions
http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/psychology/pages.php?i=201
Mandelbrot zoom youtube.com/watch?v=PD2XgQOyCCk&t=43s