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It was learning to play the Ondes Martenot which first got me into the music of André Jolivet -he wrote a beautiful and exciting concerto for the instrument. Truly, he is a magician of sound. One of the only pupils of Edgard Varèse, he practiced techniques for maintaining 'just intonation' tuning and using ritualistic processes in music to get back to nature and to the 'life spirit' of things. Jolivet's music is idiosynchratic. Using techniques to generate virtual overtones, his chord designs are characteristic and can end up sounding like fireworks fuzzing. I like the way his rhythms and melodies work themselves out and how he uses register to climactic effect. Magical!
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