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[Globutron]

So as musically inclined as I am, I got deeply affected by the music I'm listening to, which brought this thread about.

What single piece of art, or artist has given you the most... profound, euphoric, emotional, intense, relentlessly penetrating, consistently lasting effects on your state of mind?

There are many songs for me, and one painting that springs to mind from my trip to the London national art gallery where I was selected for a composition competition based on a specific piece of art, that just throw me in this state of...Awesomely abstruse discombobulation.

You get the idea, how about y'all?

My current listening with this effect is the new album of Chicane, Giants.
Nothing complex, out of the ordinary technically or productively, nothing I don't understand or have any musical snobbery towards. Just the musical voice that man has, has a way of converting my reality to a dream state.

[cyui]

The music genere is in the second paragraph

http://www.skuc.org/index.php?lang=eng

[RMNC]

I'd say the movie "Enter the Void" really had a profound effect on me. It really is a pioneer in an art form in a way that I've never seen before, and blew me away when I first saw it.

[legrande]

After taking a course in Southeast Asian theatre, I gained a new level of appreciation for Indonesian shadow puppet theatre...hell, gamelan on its own has its way with me, especially if its Javanese. Wish art was integrated into our cultures as much as it is their, and I hope our culture doesn't influence theirs to the point where all performances are held inside a venue to which one has to buy a ticket to have the privilege.

Also don't mind a bit if the surbahar (bass sitar), with their compositions/improvisations created and adapted for the time of day or night.

[Globutron]

Already a diverse little choice. The plan is to fill myself up with the crap you guys produce in my plethora of free time here. My first objective is a Shakespeare play, then a Rachmaninoff concert, despite remembering being somewhat bored by them back in Uni. I got to see world class players every Friday so you kinda take them for granted but It's been a while.

Couldn't find a single concert of interest in Korea. The only one I found was friggin invitation only.

[legrande]

[ESL Milk "Everyday]

Movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Persona
Music: The Beatles songs 'A Day In The Life' and 'Strawberry Fields Forever'.
Books: The 'Red Night' Trilogy by WS Burroughs.

[Koveras]

There were Rachmaninoff concerts almost every weekend in my region. You're right, they are boring. But Koreans love him.

Big classical concerts in general are boring. I've never been 'transported', as they say, at one. It's all dead. I get more from informal settings and small ensembles or solitaries. Hearing music in a place or a time where I completely didn't expect it can work the strongest effects.

[Underwaterbob]

Off the top of my head Webern (or Berg, I always get them mixed up, who was the pointilist?), Bartok (some awesome string quartets), Stravinsky and Steve Reich have either gained or remained consistent in appeal, to me. I think not listening to them all the time is key to longevity. I had friends who analyzed the crap out of their favorite pieces in University, and as a result either can't, or don't want to to listen to them anymore.

[sadguy]

album: john frusciante- "niandra lades and usually just a t-shirt"

emotionally raw album.

[mmstyle]

Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. I fell in love with that sculpture when I first saw it. Alphonse Mucha (illustration style) and Gustav Klimt (use of color and gold, and I find his manner of creating a human figure very evocative). The Opera House (Jorn Utzon). When I see pictures on postcards, I say, okay, cool, but when I went and starting taking pictures myself, I realized how fantastic it is to walk around, see it from all kinds of angles, and what an amazing building it is.

[Illysook]

Handel's Messiah. I've loved it since high school when I was in choir. Something special happens when it's performed live.

Mark Rothko and Henry Moore do it for me too sometimes, but there's this ashcan artist, George Bellows who is like an old boyfriend who knows how to take my breath away. It's probably because when I was a docent at The Columbus Museum of Art where they have a very large collection of his paintings. I wrote a paper about him, so I know them very well, but somehow when I look at them, they are all new again.