A trio of choreographers recently turned the "Great Fugue" into ballet, each subsequent performance a variation on the theme, a sort of dancing fugue of fugues.
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Ms. Childs's "Grande Fugue" is cool, spare, spatially complex; Ms. De Keersmaeker's "Die Grosse Fuge" (1992) is abstract yet theatrical; Ms. Marin's "Grosse Fugue" (2001) is intensely, uninhibitedly emotional.
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George Benjamin, in his 2007 "Canon & Fugue (From 'The Art of Fugue')," here in its New York premiere, takes a more straightforward approach, using a small band: flute, strings and horns.
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"We view the cloud as a giant distributed computer, and Fugue is an operating system for the cloud that we're building from first principles," said Josh Stella, founder and CEO of Fugue.
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Watch clips from "Psychogenic Fugue" and explore "Playing Lynch" here.
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And during Marcella's fugue states the audio drops out completely.
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He cited the daunting fugue of Beethoven's late "Hammerklavier" Sonata.
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After that, it's like I entered a fugue state of fitness.
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In 1825, Beethoven finished a frantic double fugue for string quartet.
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If cat's cradle has a musical equivalent, it would be the fugue.
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I told him about my tendency to go into a fugue state.
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Jagged and unpredictable, the "Great Fugue" is nothing like Bach or Handel.
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In one study, fugue sufferers migrated a mean distance of 13,200 miles.
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A fugue is thought to be an exaggerated version of this impulse.
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Musk claims the watchful cameras will play Bach's Toccata and Fugue composition.
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Flavin Judd, the artist's son, has compared it to a Bach fugue.
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I was in a mild fugue state, strangely calm, a little dissociated.
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They honor, with consummate skill, the scholastic discipline of canon and fugue.
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Everything is slowed down and filtered into a druggy, hazy fugue state.
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Like a Bach fugue, the counterpoint rivaled, and then overtook, the original melody.
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Warm fugue states can be fun until you realize you've gone too deep.
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The more she read about fugue, the less she felt she understood it.
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Saying goodbye plunged me into a fugue, but the pain faded surprisingly fast.
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In this speculative way of talking about games, Fugue In Void is hard.
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Made up of vignettes, Fugue is about the effort of sitting through it.
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Saturated washes whorl into psychedelic compositions, as if seen through a fugue state.
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Saturated washes whorl into psychedelic compositions, as if seen through a fugue state.
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Every one of the jokes, in all their fugue-like repetition, lands solidly.
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Each is performed as a fugue, with strategic variations in tone and tempo.
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Justin Ellington's sensational sound design is almost another haunted voice in the fugue.
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So many scenes, like this one, had me rapt in a weird fugue.
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Theater Suzan-Lori Parks's jazz fugue of a play, which closes on Dec.
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Only rarely is the repetition meaningful, the echoing theme of a grand fugue.
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Pure Bach comes in the form of the "Italian" Concerto, but from then on there is an adventure of influences and echoes: Roussel's "Prélude et Fugue"; Liszt's "Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H"; Liszt's rewriting of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A minor; Kempff's version of the "Sicilienne"; Poulenc's "Valse-improvisation sur le nom de Bach"; and, finally, Busoni's vast transcription of the Chaconne in D minor.
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He enterts into a fugue state and ignores Axe's horrified utterances of his name.
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In the installation, the experience is structured like a fugue, both musically and psychologically.
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"That horn fugue was wicked," he wrote to Mr. Roth at 12:30 a.m.
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The music explodes at one point with sounds of hammers, like a hammering fugue.
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The "brutalism" of Linke's work, and Fugue In Void especially, isn't metaphorical or conceptual.
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As the review correctly notes elsewhere, it is the "Grosse Fuge," not "Grosse Fugue."
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"Dreams" followed, without pause, an opening set of three of Shostakovich's prelude-fugue pairings.
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There's burning patience in the third movement Fugue, and mystery hovering over the Finale.
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It would be hard not to, after hearing the wry homage to Bach in "Prelude and Ant Fugue — With a Crab Canon" (1982), a madcap reimagining of the first prelude from "The Well-Tempered Clavier" that's dismissed with an abrasive, scurrying fugue.
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He did it to himself, in a fugue state when he thought he was Gunther.
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And the great final chorus of praise, a stirring fugue, could not have been better.
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It began with a feisty, jazzy piece by Francis Thorne, "Fanfare, Fugue and Funk" (1972).
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Fugue In Void has a kind of pure honesty about what it is as well.
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"Sometimes when you write in a fugue state, you do your best work," she acknowledged.
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At the close, there's a fugue-like absence where there should be congruence and meaning.
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In the farcical second play, "Fugue in a Nursery," he observes and experiments with coupledom.
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In classical music, the fugue is often considered the most complex form a piece could take.
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"Mother Drum" is a fugue, a repeating musical motif designed to run in an infinite loop.
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He was obsessed with these two albums, Bach: The Art of Fugue and Live in Germany.
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What followed, however, is difficult to reconstruct in language, because I essentially entered a fugue state.
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The art, however, is what struck me in my post- Yooka-Laylee fugue of unsatisfied nostalgia.
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It was in this fugue state that Arabrot and I took to the stage that night.
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"The Fugue," even though it hasn't been performed for 14 years, is less of a stranger.
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Gehrig had me learning several of his two-part inventions and my first prelude and fugue.
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You don't have to know the theory of counterpoint to be moved by a Bach fugue.
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If humans need years of training to write a fugue, computers can do the job in minutes.
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As for the melancholic and disconnected Earn, he appears to be in something of a fugue state.
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You can't toke your way into a dissociative fugue on the scale of a k-hole, basically.
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"I wrote this in a fugue state, not realizing what I was writing," Ms. Tan, 65, said.
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The finale, "START," had the mood of a fugue and the structure of a three-act play.
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It takes place in a nightmare of history, in which events are repeated, fugue-like, into eternity.
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For one thing, we never saw Betty in her fugue state go after Jughead with a rock.
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There, in September 2013, Ms. Upp experienced another dissociative fugue episode, this time disappearing for two days.
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Unfolding across multiple screens against the sound of drums, the performance encourages something like a fugue state.
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Later, though, when Tharp added men to her company, "The Fugue" had all-male casts and mixed casts.
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Philippe Tissié, one of the first psychiatrists to study fugue, characterized it as a kind of self-exile.
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"Dissociative fugue is the rare bird of dissociation, but dissociation as a phenomenon is very common," he said.
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In the closing Gigue, with its leaping, jumpy fugue theme, Bach seemed to be anticipating pointillist contemporary styles.
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Fugue In Void is the kind of game that would have generated some discourse a few years ago.
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"The Fugue," the 1970 work that put her on the dance map, is inspired by Bach's complex rhythms.
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After being pulled to safety, Ms. Upp was diagnosed with dissociative fugue, an extremely rare form of amnesia.
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I assumed that she'd finally entered a fugue state, desperate to shield nature itself from the incarcerated population.
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What ensues is "Rosemary's Baby amped up into a fugue state of self-indulgent solipsism," EW's Chris Nashawaty writes.
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Bach probably passed away before he could finish the masterpiece, his fourteenth fugue stopping dead about eight minutes in.
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Sometimes he could just sit down at the piano and play, out of his head, an original fugue. How?
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Despair Again If only the fugue state of samples glee and grabbing every gummy in sight could last forever.
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The score is filled with formal structures, including chorus episodes (one written as a fugue) that nod to Bach.
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The choicest irony is that he uses his own celebrated art of fugue as a symbol of malicious scheming.
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Instead, Malek's Mercury goes into a charming and eccentric fugue state, and "Bohemian Rhapsody" emerges from his head fully formed.
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Fugue allows businesses to declare what their cloud infrastructure should look like and set the policies for accessing that infrastructure.
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But unlike other amnesias, a fugue occludes not just the memory of events, but of the person who endured them.
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Hannah rarely spoke about her fugue, but Barbara was touched by what she felt was an allusion to the experience.
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Then, after two "Musica ricercata" by Ligeti, Mr. Barnatan ended with the colossal fugue that concludes Barber's 1949 Piano Sonata.
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Meanwhile, this video seems to have achieved some kind of fugue state; a womb-like nullification of all sensory input.
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Yorke's tenuous relationship with rest haunts ANIMA, a Carl Jung-inspired album that combats the fugue state of modern existence.
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The orchestra sounded less assured in Webern's cerebral arrangement of the Fugue from Bach's "Musical Offering," which opened the program.
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We are never quite sure whether he is dead or in a fugue state or is just a theatrical construct.
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If you think you know how to complain about airports, just listen to Benjamin Bratton's beatnik spoken-word fugue of polysyllables.
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He excelled in the organ introductions: a passacaglia by Georg Muffat and Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E minor (BWV 548).
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The Brentano String Quartet performs Bach's "Art of Fugue" combined with readings and a new short play by Itamar Moses. Jan.
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Fugue currently focuses on AWS as its main target platform, though it will surely add others at a later stage, too.
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I'm happy they haven't figured out that I'd willingly pay about $10 every shiftless Saturday I spend in a Cheers fugue.
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He took the final fugue at a brisk pace, reined in just enough to elucidate the stunningly intricate streams of counterpoint.
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She kept you on edge during the elusive transition to the gnarly, dense fugue, which she then dispatched with unfathomable dexterity.
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Since her 2008 fugue, Hannah's roommate from New York, Manuel Ramirez, had used a code phrase to check up on her.
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Whole stretches of the ruminative "Purgatorio" movement are diaphanous and mystical, interspersed with chorale-like passages and an grimly industrious fugue.
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The first was Justin Peck's "Easy," to jazz-style music ("Prelude, Fugue and Riffs") by Robbins's long-term colleague, Leonard Bernstein.
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Programming works like Max Reger's "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven" (1915) certainly gave conceptual coherence to the evening.
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Her painting "Fugue No. 2267," which hangs above her work desk, is inspired by J.S. Bach's "The Art of Fugue," the painting's three lines echoing the score's trio of melodies: a principal silvered, diamond-and-pearl line, which is followed by a dotted one that is nuanced with lapis lazuli, and both merged with a final, intense black line.
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Archie reported Agatha's disappearance as amnesia—though it is hard to prove or disprove that she had indeed entered some fugue state.
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At the end of his "Messiah" oratorio (1742), George Friedrich Handel laced together a glorious choral fugue from just one word: Amen.
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" Hannah's fugue seemed to fit what Etzel Cardeña, a professor of psychology at Lund University, in Sweden, describes as "anomalous psychological experience.
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Toward the end he gets this very complex spider web of motives that are part of both the toccata and the fugue.
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Instead, that award goes to a supposed throwaway line Cheryl hears her grandmother Nana Rose (Barbara Wallace) croak during some nighttime fugue state.
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Finally, he wanders Europe in a dissociative "fugue state," during which he assumes the name of Henry Adams, his ancestor Clover's repressive husband.
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The grand fugue that ends the opera begins "The whole world is a joke," and is generally played for its good-natured hilarity.
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When a person enters a fugue and becomes someone else—or isn't there—it's an exaggerated version of the way we all are.
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TWYLA THARP DANCE The formidable choreographer opens the Joyce's fall season with two vintage treasures: "The Raggedy Dances" (1972) and "The Fugue" (1970).
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The ebullient third, in C, ends with a quasi-fugue finale, a breathlessly fast tour de force with streams of rapid-fire notes.
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Hammer maneuvers his character nimbly as Will skates on the edge of reality, lapsing into hallucinations or fugue states — or something more sinister.
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The boldly episodic and frenzied fantasy, coupled with a stern, awesome fugue, somehow seemed to sum up music's past while anticipating its future.
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"Winter" (1969) — which announces itself as a film in "the form of a fugue" — is more complex in its representation of confounded characters.
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For all intents and purposes, the ladybug is in a somnambulant fugue state, controlled by a mysterious virus it inadvertently acquired through violent means.
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Christine is there for the express purpose of arresting June and Elena for putting various people in inexplicable comas and unresponsive waking fugue states.
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It's lopsided enough to look like a typo, and certainly lopsided enough to justify Mourning's fuming fugue state at the start of the GIF.
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He even made an arrangement of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for their musical family to play at two pianos (eight hands).
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Here, Mr. Jacobs will play a formidable fantasy and fugue, along with works by Brahms and the 19th-century composer and organist Julius Reubke.
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Fugue In Void went full-on artistic perspective warping, with its massive structures and their unwelcoming interiors shaped by stark light and sharp shadow.
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We spend the whole movie wondering if he just, like, blacked out or went into a fugue state at some point 15 years ago.
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Sinfonity, a Spanish rock band, covers another Bach fugue, swapping organs for electric guitars and Baroque wigs for their own heads of fuzzy grey hair.
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Robert Coover's new collection of short stories, "Going for a Beer," is a mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master.
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His response to the murderous mob in Charlottesville, and his implicit critique of Trump's response, read as if they were delivered from a fugue state.
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Trump's bad impression of a president is causing the country to slip further into a fugue state of endless bickering and bad faith and viciousness.
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The script could use more consistency and cadence in its fantasy sequences to achieve the fugue-like effect I presume Ms. Anyanwu is aspiring to.
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One such fugue, written in 1803 in the knock-knee time signature of 5/8, will appear on Mr. Ilic's third Reicha disc next year.
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A revelation throughout, it is more personal than either of her more consciously authoritative sequels, letting instinct have its turn, as in the "Dorian" Fugue.
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That section still comes across like the fugue to end all fugues, with outbursts of sputtering rhythms, obsessively hammered attacks and tangles of wayward counterpoint.
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Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, the longest piece on the program, was also its historical "hinge," as Mr. Denk put it in a program note.
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In 1943, he won first prize in a composing competition sponsored by Scholastic magazine for a song, "Homeward," and second prize for a keyboard fugue.
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"The Fugue," from 1970, is a "watch what I can do" compositional wonder in which a simple walking phrase is varied with Bach-like rigor.
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She blows through the fugue-like passages with such power you can almost hear the bassist and drummer getting to their feet as they rejoin.
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"8 Part Fugue II" (1981) has eight sections that are doubled in bilateral symmetry, resulting in what might be a turbulence pattern in a wind tunnel.
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"The Art of Fugue" (published 1751) is a monumental collection of 14 fugues (and four canons, another type of counterpoint), all based on a single subject.
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Most of the people there will have paid their money to see "The Fugue," which hasn't been performed by the company in New York since 2003.
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Fugue for Traffic Horns For the opening musical number set in traffic, Mr. Chazelle also wanted to give a sense of how vast the city is.
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Another review described Ms. Hewitt as an "excellent" and "brave pianist" for taking on Bach's "The Art of Fugue" at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.
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An airport is among the most challenging structures to design—the architectural equivalent of a fugue—partly because movement in it is both various and constrained.
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Suzan-Lori Parks's jazz fugue of a play presents a haunting, sepulchral parade of images that have distorted and swallowed up the history of African-Americans.
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Solnit's writing is discursive in the way of a Bach organ fugue—each seeming tangent resonates thematically, layering in meaning and feeling to gloriously virtuosic effect.
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You'd think the fugue state one enters when watching porn would prevent a detailed analysis of how porn actors' impossibly sculpted bodies compare to one's own.
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Fugue (the company previously known as Luminal), today announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
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Now back from the dead, some of those same users are apparently stuck in a digital fugue state of embarrassing old status updates and photos of exes.
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The year after "The Fugue," she produced her "Eight Jelly Rolls," to Jelly Roll Morton; the year after that, "The Bix Pieces," to Bix Beiderbecke's jazz cornet.
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Gradually, almost imperceptibly, the arrangement for full orchestra builds to a lush Romantic rhapsody as the piece, essentially a six-part fugue, all but bursts its bounds.
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On the bill this time are Lenny's "Prelude, Fugue and Riffs" and his Symphony No. 226, "The Age of Anxiety," with Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" for company.
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Much of his latest album, the fifth installment of his "Overseas" series, boasts the rugged conviction of rock music and the tangled melodic momentum of a fugue.
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Poem Paul Celan's harrowing Holocaust incantation, "Death Fugue," is the apparent inspiration for this poem by Marilyn Chin, a withering takedown of our so-called global diplomacy.
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At one point, a fugue on a hymnlike subject begins, first in the strings, section by section, then among the jazz musicians and, eventually, the full orchestra.
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You've had sole before, and so have I — this was more like a creamy feather fluttering down my throat, leaving me in a kind of fugue state.
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In the long skeins of notes in a Bach partita or fugue, Mr. Teshigawara's choreography finds an aural counterpart, nearly becoming a kind of freehand music visualization.
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Although the whole piece was in C major, C minor, C major, C minor, this one fugue in E flat is enough to make you forget that.
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She described later visiting his apartment in "a kind of fugue state" set off by her encounter with Mr. Hoffman and abuse she suffered as a child.
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In "Fugue" (2016), a grid of squares divided into fitted triangles of either red and white or blue and umber triangles, is laid out in a checkerboard pattern.
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Harry urges his girlfriend to shift into him, which would save her life but could also lead to him ending up in a fugue state like his dad.
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I was in a fugue state where all I could see were visions of toilets on fire and raccoons eating Krasdale products and spitting them out in disgust.
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Gargiulo's lawyers have argued their client suffered from a mental disorder that left him in a confusing "fugue state" when he attacked Murphy, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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While all DJs are used to the jet-lag-induced fugue that comes with their career, Dijon hums with the nervous energy that only the truly exhausted emit.
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They love to perform "Fugue for Tinhorns" from "Guys and Dolls" and tell the story of what Cheddar did with the hambone left over from an Easter dinner.
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We see only half of the 20-minute work "The Fugue" (1970) at the Joyce, but that's enough to show why she considers it her real Opus 1.
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Neither experience prepares you for the visual power and fugue-like complexity of these works, last exhibited as a group at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 28.
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Leon Botstein conducts Spohr's "Historical Symphony," Reger's "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven," Liszt's "Fantasy on Motifs From Beethoven's Ruins of Athens" and Ustvolskaya's Piano Concerto.
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Its structure is that of a jazz tone poem, with its fugue-like repetitions of phrases and movements and its sense of internal rhyme in search of reason.
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Stravinsky's audacious inventiveness continues through a deceptively calm Notturno movement, a bracing set of mini-variations, and, to end, an elaborate prelude and fugue laced with biting humor.
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Asked to pick a favorite page from the program, he went for the Beethoven, choosing the transition from the penultimate variation, a blistering fugue, to the concluding minuet.
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To sit with him today is to listen to a fugue of self-pity and rage, from a man who also exhibits some understandable bewilderment at his plight.
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"Fugue State" is an incisive group song about the way the soul can feed on technology but in doing so feeds an inner monstrosity inside all of us.
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But there are odd moments from the start here, like the mincing treatment of the opening Kyrie fugue, with the typically flowing melisma pointedly clipped into two-note phrases.
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The results were hit and miss, in my tests this month, but they did at least cut down on the fugue state of constantly scrolling through questionable suggested titles.
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I imagine it's maybe some sort of hybrid fugue state I enter, where my identity is transposed with another state of awareness, giving me access to these psychedelic landscapes.
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Sometimes, a person with the condition will forget who they are and go on to assume an entirely new identity without realizing it (this is known as "dissociative fugue.").
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My hope in coming here was that she'd give me a ton of miraculous elixirs and then send me on my way in an herb-induced fugue of tranquility.
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In this view, Trump is a freak affliction who sent millions of voters into a fugue state, and, through the sheer force of his presence, is keeping them there.
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Gargiulo's lawyers have argued their client suffered from a mental disorder that left him in a confusing "fugue state" during the attack on Murphy, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Church of the Ascension (Episcopal) This church's new organ will be showcased in Bach's Prelude and Fugue in G, followed by choral works by Handel, Bruckner and Josquin Desprez.
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But if we ever emerge from this collective fugue state we have found ourselves in, I hope we never let these assclowns forget what they said about these kids.
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In between: a series of chords, each left to resonate a bit in space, charting the journey from the aggressive high spirits of the fugue to the courtly minuet.
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He has performed the complete solo piano works of Pierre Boulez in a single evening, and all of Bach's "The Art of Fugue," from memory and without a break.
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The extraordinary pianist Igor Levit makes his Carnegie debut in Zankel Hall with Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations, three prelude-fugue pairings by Shostakovich and a new work by Frederic Rzewski.
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From "iron hood," Mike moves to the nervous fugue of "(how could anybody) feel at home?" and the quasi-religious "hymnal," where church songs are hopeful bits of escapism.
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"Homie" features Meek Mill, samples what sounds like Johan Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue, and has Young Thug holding down the hook with some guttural, Lil Jon-style growl-rap.
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But traffic was otherwise nonexistent, and so I made my way unharried, in a kind of fugue state, until a beeping notified me that I was almost out of gas.
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GARDEN CITY Garden City Chamber Music Society Concert, the Brentano String Quartet performs Bach's complete Art of Fugue combined with readings and a new short play by Itamar Moses. Jan.
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For the project, Malkovich collaborated with photographer Sandro Miller, who directed a 20-minute series of vignettes, titled Psychogenic Fugue, that meticulously and uncannily recreates scenes from David Lynch's oeuvre.
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The first movement is a commanding yet confounding Sonata-Allegro form; the final fugue, driven by a bustling theme initiated by a persistent trill, is a dizzying web of counterpoint.
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Richard Loewenstein, the medical director of the Trauma Disorders Program at Sheppard Pratt, in Towson, Maryland, may have worked with more fugue patients than any other psychiatrist in the country.
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The program includes Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of J. A. Hiller, as well as Three Études for Orchestra by Adolf Busch, Reger's colleague — and Peter Serkin's grandfather.
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Her take on that sonata's fugue, too, was designed to maximize sound, with short notes rendered solid — almost broad — and only the difficult triple stops ringing out harshly, like gunshots.
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At Bard the pianist Danny Driver performed one such exercise, a Fugue in G Minor, as an endearingly clunky testament to a midcareer artist hard at work on self-improvement.
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But the surprise of the program came at the start, when Ms. Kibbey played her own transcription of Bach's dark and restless Toccata and Fugue in D minor for Organ.
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" He told me he sometimes enters a frightening fugue state that resembles dementia or feels such "abject loneliness," hopelessness and fear that he's convinced "it's never going to get better.
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So, for good measure, he had the program grab entries from online dream diaries, and intersperse them between the conversations, as if the characters were slipping into a fugue state.
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I relaxed my throat and sang louder, steadying the soprano notes of a Vivaldi fugue as they rose on a column of air and thrummed through my slightly scaly lips.
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Toward the end of Saturday's episode of Outlander, "Je Suis Prest," Claire finally opens up to Jamie about why she has been in a traumatized fugue state for days on end.
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We tell the story about Beethoven writing this massive fugue finale for one of his string quartets and he's so nervous about the premiere and how it's going to be received.
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"Sound and image achieve an unusually precise and gripping, even fugue-like syncopation," Roberta Smith of The New York Times wrote in reviewing "Grosse fatigue" at the 2014 New Museum show.
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In a way, "The Art of Fugue" is another transcription, since Bach scored it on multiple staves (one per part) and never specified what instrument, or instruments, he had in mind.
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Particularly stunning are the transcriptions, including Busoni's of Liszt's mammoth Fantasia and Fugue on the chorale "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam" (which was in turn adapted from Meyerbeer's opera "Le Prophète").
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The conflicts among the four friends, and eventually with the formidable Gina as well, are carried out in a series of arguments and arias the playwright aptly likens to a fugue.
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The allure of this storied seaside city — the Baroque excess, the indulgent cuisine, the mesmerizing fugue state of it all — now beckons as it did in the city's Grand Tour days.
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In July, for example, Christie's sold the third-highest-priced musical manuscript at auction: Bach's Prelude, Fugue and Allegro for lute or keyboard in E flat (BWV 998), for $3.34 million.
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Dear Esther, Gone Home, Fugue In Void, What Remains Of Edith Finch, The Beginner's Guide, and the extensive work of my frequent collaborator Connor Sherlock are all typical of the genre.
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For months now, the leaders of the Republican Party have been ambling through a fugue of denial about the fact that Donald Trump is winning the race for their party's presidential nomination.
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Numerous composers have set "Death Fugue" to music, while a line from it — "Death is a master from Germany" — has been incorporated into songs performed by German punk and black metal bands.
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In a fugue, a series of independent voices and instruments extrapolate on a common theme, simultaneously competing and complementing each other, but ultimately coming together to create an interwoven tapestry of sound.
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Chris Thile, a folk and bluegrass musician, recently teamed up with Yo Yo Ma, a cellist, and Edgar Meyer, a bassist, to explore parts of "The Art of Fugue" on his mandolin.
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Although audiences might suspect at first that Annie is the one tormenting her own family – perhaps while in a sleepwalking fugue – Aster confirms it's Joan the cult that are pulling the strings.
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What might have otherwise been just a momentary brush with death is transformed by De Quincey into a hallucinogenic "Dream Fugue," spilling out elaborate visions that rush by in the terrifying night.
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On social media, you may have noticed an explosion of romper-related jokes and assumed the stream of alarming political news had driven people into some sort of dissociative fugue state. Maybe!
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The same origin story of racial conflict and denial is repeated, with only slight variations, by Sarah and her ghosts in a fugue that seems destined to end with its creator's death.
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Barbara believed that this fugue, too, may have started with a prelude in which Hannah was still home and communicating with people in a rudimentary way, without encoding the interactions into memory.
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It's always tense, sometimes genuinely shocking, but everything about the game has a dream-like quality to it: A good match for the fugue state I'm wrestling with in the early hours.
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Fugue In Void is the kind of experience that really delivers something when it comes to that hardness, that opacity, that unwillingness to let players do what they want when they want.
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Mr. Levit's interpretation was permeated by wariness, a sense of repression that occasionally exploded — as in the fugue in E minor, the almost sputtering effusion of a man finally finding his voice.
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When she was three or four years old, she and her father began to make up "little fugues, cadences together—before I knew what a fugue or a cadence was," Giddens said.
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He opened with Brahms's left-hand arrangement of the Chaconne from Bach's Partita No. 2 for Unaccompanied Violin (1877-78) and ended with Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel (1861).
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Emmanuel Lubezki's lush and earthy cinematography renders the ripe, verdant Virginia landscape as alternately Edenic and treacherous, and the fugue-like editing captures the disorientation of encountering unfamiliar sights, sounds, and entire civilizations.
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Other characters try to find a clear cause for Olivia's behavior, as she smashes mirrors and slips into fugue states: they blame mental illness, or her husband's neglect, or those damned pushy ghosts.
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After intermission Mr. Botstein conducted Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of J. A. Hiller (1907), another long (42 minutes) and demanding work that in this ineffective performance sounded meandering and gloppy.
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Whatever the reason behind misnaming—sex-induced fugue state, standard confusion among similar semantic categories, whatever—your reaction to the utterance of an incorrect name is arguably more telling than the act itself.
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Various versions of Iago's famous "Credo" suggest that it was pondered "arduously," she said, while "Falstaff" fans will be intrigued by drafts Verdi discarded, like the first version of the opera's fugue finale.
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For his 2015 Lincoln Center season, he acquired "Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor" (1938), by Doris Humphrey, and an updated "Rite of Spring" (2002-03), by the Chinese-American choreographer Shen Wei.
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The scenes are ordinary enough — intersections in East London with people going about their normal business — but there's a tranced stillness about them: a feeling of being in some kind of fugue state.
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The bees in the "Concave Room" mostly travel from a hive stationed in Jessica Segall's Fugue in B♭. The piece was made from a repurposed piano frame, which houses a beehive inside.
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You drink whole jars of pickle juice in a fugue state; you acquire carpal tunnel syndrome, take up snoring, and, at your most loathsome, become so ludicrously horny you lose whole afternoons to TubeGalore.
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If that lacuna is due to blacking out from drinking alcohol, for example, or being in a "fugue state" (in Justice Elena Kagan's words) it cannot serve as a basis for escaping death row.
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His account of reading Celan's "Death Fugue," in its entirety, to a girl who's come over to apologize for sleeping with his brother induces a sympathetic embarrassment that is almost exquisite in its intensity.
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Hollander described the closing shot's dream-like quality as the "fugue state version of it, almost a music video" of Ray's action, one that will be revisited from another angle when the show returns.
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Around the third trimester, I had stumbled into a fugue state courtesy of Michael Connelly and his Bosch novels — a popular, 22-book-long-and-counting series of detective fiction that debuted in 1992.
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The transition from the penultimate fugue to the final minuet, a series of floating chords, really did seem to be pointing beyond this world: whether toward heaven or apocalypse, Mr. Levit kept painfully ambiguous.
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And yet in the context of the album, both of those songs might as well have come out of some sort of fugue state, separate from the flat-circle horror of Die writ large.
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She begins with a gorgeous, improvised fugue, is joined by a bassist and a drummer and leads the trio in light supper-club swing, and intensifies into muscular Count Basie-like, big-band punches.
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On Election Night, Kai puts a bag of Cheetos in a blender and then coats his skin in the paste, sitting reverentially in front a mirror and murmuring about the revolution in a fugue state.
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Coming cold to Bach's challenging E minor "Wedge" Fugue on Wednesday (its prelude presented the day before), Mr. Stein started a little slowly, but he soon thought better of it and kicked up the tempo.
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But what if you said goodbye a long time ago, and have spent the years since in a fugue state of sorts, going through the motions, playing the good part, but existing on borrowed time?
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My friend, a Supreme fan, has admitted in the past that he goes into something of a fugue state during its weekly online drop, clicking near blindly to secure himself something, anything, before it's gone.
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ANTHONY TOMMASINI Perhaps the prospect of hearing Daniil Trifonov make his way through "The Art of Fugue," as he was scheduled to do at Symphony Hall in Boston on Sunday, was always a little outlandish.
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One night a couple of summers ago, the power went out and, unable to watch Netflix or engage in my customary internet fugue, I lit a candle and picked up a thriller by Ruth Rendell.
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Works performed will include selections from Bach's "The Art of the Fugue" (incomplete at his death), Britten's Third String Quartet (composed a year before he died) and Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32 (the final one).
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Krista suggests this incident sounds a lot like the Mr. Robot fugue states Elliot currently experiences — is it possible it was Mr. Robot who was swinging a bat in that room so many years ago?
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Her reclaimed piano turned beehive, Fugue in♭, keeps the original strings of the open-face instrument so that each time an insect interacts with a piano string, a sound is emitted from the installation.
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Fast forward through a few weeks of all-night gaming, trash TV and adult website browsing in an endless drunken fugue — it all blurs together, anyway — and I noticed the new transwine wasn't doing too well.
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At more than two weeks into 2018, you may be running close to the deadline to return party outfit duds, the just-because gifts to yourself, and splurge items you bought in a holiday fugue state.
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After all, she'd spent portions of the episode in a kind of fugue state, mentally wandering in and out of conversations (not just flashbacks – conversations with Josh Charles' Will Gardner, the murdered love of her life).
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She was given a diagnosis of dissociative fugue, a rare condition in which people lose access to their autobiographical memory and personal identity, occasionally adopting a new one, and may abruptly embark on a long journey.
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Mr. Anderszewski played the opening section of the Toccata, which unfolds like a somber fantasy, with articulate touch and rhythmic urgency; the fugue section that follows, for all its rigor, came across as daring and inexorable.
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To three movements from "The Art of Fugue," 16 dancers abandoned themselves to breathy spins and ecstatic leaps (Devon Louis stood out for his extra-springy jump), a statement on the urgency of communing with nature.
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" Baroque brass works and hypnotic contemporary choral pieces gave way to a Bach cantata with the countertenor Iestyn Davies and, in closing, Liszt's sprawling, visionary Fantasy and Fugue on a chorale from Meyerbeer's opera "Le Prophète.
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A gray still life of a dead, trussed heron is paired with a painting of the same bird by Sisley, as well as a portrait by Renoir of Bazille at work on his avian death fugue.
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Jared Lamenzo is so accustomed to showing off this monstrous marvel of an instrument that he can discuss it even while using all four of his limbs to bang out a Bach fugue or Buxtehude toccata.
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This Scottish novelist's post-Brexit, climate-addled fugue won a spot on the Booker shortlist and acclaim from my colleagues on the Book Review, who also named it one of the 10 best books of 2017.
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The thought of having to witness and worse listen to the manufactured consent summoned to celebrate that mean-spirited, buffoon of a carnival barker ascending to the office of president almost sends me into a fugue state.
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Two bite-size works for string quartet represented Rome and Mendelssohn's interest in early music: a three-minute arrangement of the "Sanctus" from Palestrina's "Missa Aeterna Christi Munera" and Mendelssohn's short Fugue in E flat (Op. 81).
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But I haven't smoked in a while, and as the nicotine unpleasantly hits sober me, unaided by the boozy fugue I usually imbibe one in, I'm kind of wondering why I even bothered in the first place.
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Seated at a piano placed near a corner of the memorial plaza, the 12-year-old Mr. Fisher performed the Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C from Book I with a nice, light touch and flow.
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What does it mean that one of the funnier, more refreshing novels to appear so far this year is about a woman who is either in a fugue state or doing everything she can to get there?
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Yet the Danes complicate the narrative by including, at the start of each installment, an arrangement of a fugue by Bach, thereby emphasizing not only Beethoven's premonitions of the future but also his consciousness of the past.
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In his originals, Mr. Klein aims for melodies and rhythms that feel utterly clear — like something Gardel might have crooned — but that also tangle, weave and interfere with one another, like a fugue or a hocketing chorus.
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She chased the best jokes, fell into a kind of Photoshop fugue state, and emerged as the co-founder of a Facebook page dedicated to the candidate with the most stimulating content: Marianne Williamson's Dank Meme Stash.
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Mr. Taylor's choreography, masterly in the changing group geometries of its outer movements, takes its dramatic, formal intensity from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Prelude in E flat minor, as orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski.
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Her video installation "Black Friday" was shown at the Whitney Museum last year — a hallucinatory, drone-videoed fugue about shopping malls, the 21st-century equivalent of Coleridge's "caverns measureless to man," where we are all spendthrift Kubla Khans.
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Instead of dragging him along while stoned, Gavin paid the owner of the drug den enough cash to allow Erlich to stay there for five years, and left him giggling up at the ceiling in a fugue state.
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On Thursday, an even more circuitous route takes in Schumann's "Variations on an Original Theme," more late Brahms, a Mozart rondo, a Bach prelude and fugue, and, finally, perhaps with a hint of irony, Beethoven's "Les Adieux" Sonata.
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Conventional tonal music, whether it's a Bach fugue or a Beatles song, is bound together by the magnetic attraction of chords, which, reduced to their essence, function as question-and-answer, the "grammar" of music, as it were.
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I had spent hours in a fugue state watching videos of Jackson when he was a lanky teenager, wiggling his sequined hips in the "Rock With You" music video, his skin still the color of a coconut husk.
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But the energy these musicians project is of a community engaged in an urgent act of soul-searching — even in purely instrumental moments, like the overture's fugue, which came across as a warren of voices intent on debate.
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Most fascinatingly, a fugue, composed for the original production but not used, becomes a spectacularly patterned ensemble dance for an angry Myrtha and the Wilis after Giselle protects Albrecht by taking him to the cross on her grave.
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And while Brahms's references to Bach and Handel are obvious and thoroughgoing, and Ligeti called the last of his 11 movements, a fugue that sounds anything but ancient, "Homage to Girolamo Frescobaldi," Schubert had nothing Baroque-ish to impart.
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Instead, Donna informs Betty that she went to visit imprisoned cult leader Evelyn Evernever (Zoé de Grand Maison), and learned of the secret code word that makes Betty go into a fugue state and hurt the ones she loves.
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My sincere hope is that this represents some kind of fugue state that has overtaken American society—the type of collective sadistic psychosis that could drive otherwise sane people to burn all of their most important bridges for no personal gain.
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The program, after all, included what Mr. Jacobs, in preliminary remarks, called "two of the mightiest organ works of the 19th century": Franz Liszt's Fantasy and Fugue on "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam" and Julius Reubke's Sonata in C minor.
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Taken together, Kennedy's twenty-odd plays form a long and startling fugue, composed of language that is impactful and impacted but ever-moving, ever-shifting, as her protagonists, usually women of color, stand on the precipice of disaster, madness, or loss.
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Moser frames her time in Sarajevo as the narrative culmination of her intellectual development, her sustained commitment bringing all her conceptual chords into a triumphant fugue:
It was the place where the interests that Sontag had pursued throughout her life coincided.
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Mr. Bornn, who has been in frequent communication with Ms. Upp's family while trying to raise money to keep his school's doors open, stressed that even in a fugue state, Ms. Upp would still be fully functional — just not as herself.
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Four days earlier, Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot and killed there, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, and a fugue of disbelief and despair hovered over the crowd as it continued down the road that King had travelled.
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What happens between the last chord of the fugue and the first chord of the minuet, I can't say is a holy moment, because I don't think it's a holy piece in any way, but it's a gentle, warm, humane moment.
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Severe dissociation can include psychogenic amnesia, when a person can't remember personal information with no seeming physical cause, or dissociative fugue state, when a person loses his or her identity altogether—as if they've just stepped out of their body and walked away.
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In a fugue, or a dream, they float over mountain peaks, green gullies, surging seas, oceans of gridlocked cars, landfill, and smoldering tires—from Heaven to Hell, or, in Toller's mind, from God's creation to the unforgivable mess we have made of it.
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Whether he found in the composer a profound joy, as in the carefree classic "Esplanade," set to a violin concerto, or romantic despair, as with "Promethean Fire," danced to the organ blasts of "Toccata and Fugue," Taylor seemed in direct communication with Bach.
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Most of the performances were at least fluent, and a few were inspiriting, like Nate Sassoon's romp near the end of the evening through the C minor Prelude and Fugue from Book 1, which showed temperament, for a change, as well as technique.
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Seventy-five minutes later, I found the truck, in a perfectly legal parking space, on a block so unrelated to any reasonable route from my house to the bookstore that I seriously wondered if I'd driven there in some kind of fugue state.
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The result was almost a visceral experience at points, one in which the jagged editing and unreliable narration we've come to expect from this show finally converged to trap us in Camille's head just as she entered a kind of nightmare fugue state.
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In his current exhibition, Crispy Fugue State, at Lennon, Weinberg (May 12 – July 29, 2016), there are eleven paintings dated between 2014 and 2016, with most of them done this year, ranging in size between 2016 x 24 inches and 84 x 60 inches.
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There have been so many baffling moments in this presidency that it would seem fruitless to single out one moment as more baffling than the rest; it is as if the country is in a constant fugue state, losing its grasp on what it is.
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There you'll find a surprisingly novel Mozart program — played by the New York Philharmonic on Wednesday night under Manfred Honeck and continuing through Tuesday — that, like a fugue, tells a story of the composer's final year while mapping a journey of death and transcendence.
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This fine, exuberant ensemble is led from the violin by Richard Tognetti, who also made two of the arrangements on this program, namely the first four fugues from Bach's "The Art of Fugue," and Beethoven's mammoth Op. 130 quartet, with "Grosse Fuge" as its ending.
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And if, as we read, we experience the fugue-like recurrence of those details and hundreds of others, we begin to understand what it might be like for the girls' fathers to have to relive the minutiae of their daughters' deaths, day after day, forever.
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This is not to say that the greatness of Mozart—or of Monteverdi, whose melting duet "Pur ti miro" may actually be by Francesco Sacrati; or of Bach, whose Halloweenish Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is probably by someone else—is a fiction.
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Stricken by the loss of their sons, Vikas and Deepa Khurana sink into the routines of a shared fugue state: queasy grief sex interspersed with bouts of weeping and visits from members of the Khurana clan who live alongside them in a family compound.
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The quilts are a nod to some of the Western canon's greatest composers — Chopin, Bach — with names such as "Prelude in E" or "Fugue in C." Cushions have also been given the names usually meant to indicate instructions on a score ("crescendo" or "andante").
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His stylistic signature is unique even in his superhuman peer group of basketball geniuses; where his peers are known for crossovers or first steps or quick releases, Westbrook defines himself and is defined in turn by the wrathful fugue state in which he plays.
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If the "Pennines Five" case — where Elena accidentally left five people, Lewis included, in a coma or fugue state after consecutively shifting into them without returning to her own form — is any example, Harry is now trapped in a trance for the rest of his life.
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This claim is supported with his vertiginous Orphist-Cubist works, "Discs of Newton" (450), with its roiling solidity that takes on an almost sculptural quality, and "Amorpha, Fugue in Two Colors" (456), inspired by Notre Dame's stained glass windows and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 457.
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Fantasy and I don't get along — as soon as I see a map on the front page with "so-and-so's house next to this castle and that cave," I am lost — my mind goes into a fugue state, and I find myself unable to go on.
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But it's also possible that the human brain isn't quite built like a Heptapod's brain, which means that we would experience flashes of the future as just that — flashes that function as fugue states that are more or less forgotten, unless they're particularly emotional and impactful.
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Faye's encounters are orchestrated like a fugue, with each voice taking up the theme: the quest for freedom from a false self—a stock character one has been forced to play by parents who extort compliance, or by a mate who imposes submission as the price for love.
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These themes came together, in a kind of stormy blues fugue, in the book-length essay "Between the World and Me," a best seller that won the National Book Award last year, was a finalist for the Pulitzer and landed the author a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation.
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The Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska follows her man-eating-mermaid fantasia "The Lure" with the amnesia drama "Fugue" (on May 11), and the festival will close with the Greek dark comedy "Pity," from Babis Makridis, about a man who begins to take unusual satisfaction in the experience of grief.
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He opened with Bach, but in rarely heard arrangements: a dreamy Siciliano from the Concerto in D minor (arranged by Alfred Cortot) and Busoni's transcription of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, which, in its original organ version, has entered popular culture as a shorthand for Halloween horror.
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The Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor feasts on dissonance with almost diabolical glee, perpetrating one of the most violent harmonies of the pre-Wagnerian era: a chord in which a D clashes with both a C-sharp and an E-flat, resulting in a full-throated acoustical scream.
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Their hope is that the actors will jar Howard out of his fugue state, but just in case that doesn't work, the partners will film him talking to the actors; that way, they'll be able to digitally erase the actors from the clips, and have Howard found mentally unfit.
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Born to a Russian-Jewish family in Moscow (his father was an aerospace engineer and his mother a piano teacher), Mr Kissin was a sickly child whose phenomenal musical gift was obvious from the start: aged 11 months, he suddenly sang the theme from the Bach fugue that his elder sister was studying.
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And Ligeti's ingenious "Musica Ricercata," which progresses from utter simplicity (with a movement using the single note A until the D at the end) to great complexity (in that ultra-chromatic fugue), stood as a modernist standard until it was eclipsed by Ligeti's three sets of piano études from 1985 to 2001.
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So in my scientific opinion, thinking too hard about the story is a disservice both to Donnie Darko and your own happiness, because the movie works much better as a mood-poem and fugue state than it does as a science fiction mind-bender or even strictly a coming-of-age story.
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Instead, Lebron severely underperformed, wrangled in by Tyson Chandler's rim protection and a kind of unidentifiable malaise, while Dirk Nowitzki was downright heroic, loopily driving to the rim against whatever defender he got, drilling jumpers as if in a fugue state, and unleashing his totally unblockable one-legged fadeaway all over the midrange.
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I've noticed that Jake usually kicks things off with a nice little anecdote about what he's been watching in his free time, and it's always such a pure delight, but I've been in a bit of a fugue state recently, so all I've been doing is rewatching random episodes of Trailer Park Boys.
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Two of her ex-boyfriends describe their former relationships in a kind of Viva-induced fugue state, one resolutely contending "I'm not the bad guy" and the other dreamily recalling her mercurial charm, both either elevating her or reducing her to a Manic Pixie Dream Girl-cum-tragedy — which is unrealistic or boring at best.
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Of the 17 films, nine are directed by women, including "3 Days in Quiberon," Emily Atef's recreation of an interview given by the actress Romy Schneider a year before her death in 1982 (May 5), and "Fugue," Agnieszka Smoczynska's study of memory loss as a vanished woman returns to her husband and child (May 11).
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In his collaboration with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Jörg Widmann, as conductor and solo clarinetist, serves up a meticulously balanced program with compositions that showcase his debt to Bach ("Versuch über die Fuge") and rock ("218 beats per minute") alongside works by Mendelssohn, Weber and Mozart's own Bach-flavored Adagio and Fugue in C minor.
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The Economist then rightly asks him how something like eliminating the estate tax could fail to benefit the rich, and Trump appears to enter a fugue state: I get more deductions, I mean I can tell you this, I get more deductions, they have deductions for birds flying across America, they have deductions for everything.
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If you're not already familiar with the fugue of music, fires, and long-winded toasts to the gods that is Play With Fire, a few summers ago, Zak Pelaccio of Fish & Game, a small restaurant nestled in beautiful Hudson, NY, thought it might be a good idea to have a few friends over for a dinner party.
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Part 2, "Fugue in a Nursery," staged on a giant bed, can feel like Arnold's fever dream: he and his devastatingly hot younger boyfriend, Alan (Michael Hsu Rosen), visit Ed and his wife, Laurel (Roxanna Hope Radja), at their country house, where all anybody wants to talk about is how much Ed still burns for Arnold.
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Remarkably, he also took no pause between Liszt's transcription of the Solemn March to the Holy Grail from "Parsifal" and that composer's Fantasia and Fugue on "Ad Nos, ad Aalutarem Undam" (originally for organ, and transcribed for piano by Busoni.) Together, those two works run longer than 40 minutes; both are back-breakingly difficult, for different reasons.
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"'Lullaby of Birdland' was one of the first ones that I knew I wanted to include, because he starts off quoting a couple of classical pieces, and then when he goes into the song, it's almost like a false start, because he uses the melody as the beginning of a fugue," Bowers said in an interview.
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And while the Museo Archeologico, with its extraordinary collection of antiquities, remains a bit neglected, most of the city's art, culture and social scene are on an optimistic bender, and the charms of Naples — the Baroque excess, the indulgent cuisine, the mesmerizing fugue state of it all — beckon as they did in the city's Grand Tour glory days.
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Sex is one of the few reasons I'd entertain being woken up at 6:30 am, but after a fugue-like first go on day one, I set an alarm for 30 minutes earlier, allowing myself time to drink two cups of coffee and brush my teeth before we set about the task of fucking the mean out of each other.
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" Describing her plots as "always haunting, hypnotic, incommensurable and strange," the essayist Scott Bradfield wrote in a tribute to Ms. Wilhelm in The Los Angeles Times after her death that her books pose "deep questions about the efficacy of science, the fugue states of dreaming, the vast bland conformity of social life, and the ways that a desire for power infiltrates every human relationship.
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