{"id":667714,"date":"2025-05-08T01:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/star-remnants-inspired-this-percussion-masterpiece\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T01:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:27:40","slug":"star-remnants-inspired-this-percussion-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/star-remnants-inspired-this-percussion-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Star remnants inspired this percussion masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2a6d70b63f3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/star-remnants-inspired-this-percussion-masterpiece\/#French_composer_Gerard_Griseys_Le_Noir_de_lEtoile_is_a_portal_to_deep_space_and_an_awe-inspiring_live_experience\" >French composer G\u00e9rard Grisey\u2019s Le Noir de l\u2019Etoile is a portal to deep space and an awe-inspiring live experience.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"French_composer_Gerard_Griseys_Le_Noir_de_lEtoile_is_a_portal_to_deep_space_and_an_awe-inspiring_live_experience\"><\/span>French composer G\u00e9rard Grisey\u2019s <i>Le Noir de l\u2019Etoile<\/i> is a portal to deep space and an awe-inspiring live experience.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270499\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0360_coouf8\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0360_coouf8\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0360_coouf8\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0360_coouf8\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0360_coouf8\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0360_coouf8\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0360_coouf8\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0360_coouf8\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0360_coouf8\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0360_coouf8\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0360_coouf8\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Star remnants inspired this percussion masterpiece\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>       Jack Beal for Bang on a Can<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270494\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <i>\u201cApollo Frequencies\u201d is a new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> that explores music that seems to come from another world. The first edition deals with French composer G\u00e9rard Grisey\u2019s sounds from deep space.<br \/><\/i>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270495\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            In May 1969, two months before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, the Apollo 10 mission entered the moon\u2019s orbit. As the ship\u2019s path crossed the dark side of the moon \u2014 supposedly the only place in our solar system that the Earth\u2019s radio waves can\u2019t reach \u2014 its crew heard otherworldly sounds.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            \u201cYou hear that? That whistling sound?\u201d Eugene Cernan can be heard asking from the lunar module in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XNryDb7JDuU\">footage<\/a> released to the public by NASA in 2016. \u201cYes,\u201d John Young responds from the command module. \u201cSounds like \u2014 you know, outer-space-type music.\u201d Maybe, the astronauts considered, these were transmissions from an intelligent race somewhere in the cosmos.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Video of the Apollo 10 crew hearing this \u201calien music\u201d went viral upon its release. In an episode of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bjLZBrQ-Oq4&amp;ab_channel=ScienceChannel\">Science Channel\u2019s <i>NASA\u2019s Unexplained Files<\/i><\/a>, Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden and planetary scientist Kevin Grazier emphasize the uncertainty of the noises. But the phenomenon had already been <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/air-space-magazine\/mysterious-apollo-music-explained-180958193\/\">demystified<\/a> by scientists. The sounds were not of this Earth, but their origins were mundane: They were simply beat frequencies, the result of two radio signals interfering with each other \u2014 in this case, that of the lunar module and that of the command module.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            I prefer the mysterious version, the one that allows us to suspend our disbelief and marvel at things outside our realm of understanding. In my new column, \u201cApollo Frequencies,\u201d I\u2019ll explore extraordinary sounds, ambitious music that challenges what we previously thought possible.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270500\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0370_x9tu3y\/talujon-percussion-ensemble-performing-gerard-grisey-s-i-le-noir-de-l-etoile-i.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0370_x9tu3y\/talujon-percussion-ensemble-performing-gerard-grisey-s-i-le-noir-de-l-etoile-i.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0370_x9tu3y\/talujon-percussion-ensemble-performing-gerard-grisey-s-i-le-noir-de-l-etoile-i.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0370_x9tu3y\/talujon-percussion-ensemble-performing-gerard-grisey-s-i-le-noir-de-l-etoile-i.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0370_x9tu3y\/talujon-percussion-ensemble-performing-gerard-grisey-s-i-le-noir-de-l-etoile-i.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0370_x9tu3y\/talujon-percussion-ensemble-performing-gerard-grisey-s-i-le-noir-de-l-etoile-i.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0370_x9tu3y\/talujon-percussion-ensemble-performing-gerard-grisey-s-i-le-noir-de-l-etoile-i.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0370_x9tu3y\/talujon-percussion-ensemble-performing-gerard-grisey-s-i-le-noir-de-l-etoile-i.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0370_x9tu3y\/talujon-percussion-ensemble-performing-gerard-grisey-s-i-le-noir-de-l-etoile-i.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0370_x9tu3y\/talujon-percussion-ensemble-performing-gerard-grisey-s-i-le-noir-de-l-etoile-i.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0370_x9tu3y\/talujon-percussion-ensemble-performing-gerard-grisey-s-i-le-noir-de-l-etoile-i.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 640px\" alt=\"Star remnants inspired this percussion masterpiece\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Talujon percussion ensemble performing G\u00e9rard Grisey&#8217;s <i>Le Noir de l&#8217;Etoile<\/i>.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      Jack Beal for Bang on a Can<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270496\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Eighteen months before the Apollo 10 crew heard music on the dark side of the moon, a 24-year-old Cambridge astronomy PhD student named Jocelyn Bell heard a beat from space. Through a 120-mile radio telescope she\u2019d built in a four-acre field, she noticed a tiny but significant squiggle in her readings, caused by impulses arriving 1.3 seconds apart. After ruling out man-made interference, Bell and her supervisors set out to discover the source of the signal. Like the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arent Apollo 10 anomaly, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> went viral (in 1960s terms), with armchair astronomers claiming Bell\u2019s findings amounted to definitive evidence of extraterrestrial life. But Bell found a second such space beat a month later, suggesting that the findings were naturally occurring, not the scribblings of an alien race.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Bell had discovered <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-017-0323-x\">pulsars<\/a>, the detritus of exploding stars. Their matter is compressed so tightly that their atoms are crushed to form dense clusters of neutrons while their charged particles are relegated to their magnetic fields. A pulsar with a radius of 15 kilometers would have a mass as great as our sun. A pulsar the size of a thimble would weigh 100 billion metric tons on Earth. When a pulsar spins, a beam of light formed by its charged particles extends on an axis across its enormous magnetic field, roughly one trillion times larger than our planet\u2019s. Thus, this beam, sent from lightyears away, sweeps the Earth upon each rotation, like the emissions of a deep-space lighthouse.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            In the years following Bell\u2019s revelation, pulsars became a pop-culture phenomenon as well as a scientific one. Her supervisors won the 1974 Nobel prize in physics \u2014 as a woman, Bell was snubbed \u2014 and an illustration of her radio telescope readings appears on the cover of Joy Division\u2019s <i><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/master\/4805-Joy-Division-Unknown-Pleasures\">Unknown Pleasures<\/a><\/i> (and, therefore, the t-shirts of a thousand hipsters).\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270501\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0387_nabaeq\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0387_nabaeq\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0387_nabaeq\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0387_nabaeq\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0387_nabaeq\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0387_nabaeq\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0387_nabaeq\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0387_nabaeq\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0387_nabaeq\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0387_nabaeq\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/BEAL_Long_Play_4-20250503-0387_nabaeq\/apollo-music-gerard-grisey-le-noir-de-letoile-review.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Star remnants inspired this percussion masterpiece\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Jack Beal for Bang on a Can<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270497\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            In the late \u201980s, inspired by a meeting with cosmologist John Silk, French composer G\u00e9rard Grisey became fascinated with pulsars. A pioneering member of a movement called spectralism, Grisey\u2019s primary interest was in transforming the timbral qualities of sounds by manipulating their acoustic properties (spectra), which can be represented visually on a spectrogram. But by 1989, when he started writing <i>Le Noir de l\u2019Etoile<\/i> (<i>The Black of the Star<\/i>), he\u2019d moved past the form\u2019s strictures into less chartable territory. The piece was first performed by the Percussions de Strasbourg in 1991.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI was seduced by those of the Vela pulsar, and I im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely asked myself, like Picasso picking up an old bicycle seat, \u2018What could I do with it?\u2019\u201d Grisey once said of his path to <i>Le Noir de l\u2019Etoile<\/i>. \u201cThe answer came slowly: Integrate them into a musical work without manipulating them; allow them simply to exist, like landmarks at the heart of a piece of music\u2026 and finally to use their frequencies as tempi and to develop the ideas of rotation, periodicity, slowing, and acceleration, and of \u2018glitches,\u2019 which the study of pulsars suggests to astronomers.\u201d Percussion, he explained, was the ideal medium for this project because, \u201clike pulsars, it is primordial and implacable, and, like them, delineates and measures time.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            On the afternoon of May 3, I watched the Talujon percussion ensemble \u2014 an avant-garde group of contemporary classical scene veterans \u2014 perform <i>Le Noir de l\u2019Etoile<\/i> in full at the Church of St. Luke &amp; St. Matthew in Brooklyn as part of Bang on a Can\u2019s Long Play festival. The audience sat in rows of wooden chairs in front of the stage, its six percussionists surrounding us. Each had an elaborate setup distinct from the others \u2014 from gongs and bass drums to congas and kits to small cymbals and chimes. The array notably excluded keyboards, as Grisey felt the piece would be best with only \u201cskins and metals\u201d involved.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270502\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Talujon performs Grisey at 2012 Bang on a Can Marathon\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y4CnvcXOwd4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270498\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            A disembodied voice introduced the piece and its main characters, the pulsars Vela and 0329+54 (the latter named for its galactic coordinates), and the performance began in earnest. It started softly, a barely struck bass drum rustling the air of the silent room. The other percussionists entered slowly, but the pace soon picked up, introducing the composition\u2019s central motif; as the piece\u2019s proverbial pulsar turned, the percussionists played cascading rhythms in clockwise sequence, representing the celestial body\u2019s sweeping beam.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            The effect was, at first, totally disorienting. Trying to locate the source of each noise would require spinning 360 degrees, which, seated as we were, was impossible. But when I closed my eyes, the spinning sound became transportative, a portal to the fractured darkness of deep space.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            More than 30 years old now, <i>Le Noir de l\u2019Etoile<\/i> is not Grisey\u2019s most famous or formally inventive work, but it is an awe-inspiring experience. There are very few pieces of art that successfully emulate nature, let alone the nature of the universe. But as the sun beat down on the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew on Saturday, <i>Le Noir de l\u2019Etoile<\/i> got close.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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