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| | Iannis Xenakis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Cendrées (1973), for mixed choir of 72 (or 36) singers chanting phonemes by Iannis Xenakis and 73 musicians | | | Milton Babbitt, Schoenberg), Xenakis did not want the listener to be aware of the forms and theories used to produce his compositions. | | | Institute of Research on Music and Acoustics, Athens (Greece): Iannis Xenakis Pages (with several sound and score samples) |
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| | Leonardo Digital Reviews |
| | James Harley's article, 'Formal Analysis of the Music of Iannis Xenakis by Means of Sonic Events: Recent Orchestral Music', provides a useful overview of the orchestral music of Xenakis from 1957 to 1997. | | | The articles in the first section trace the early influences of the folk music of Greece and the music of Bartok on Xenakis' music. | | | Although the musical end result was quite different, John Cage's use of compositional process in denial of intention and Iannis Xenakis' use of mathematics to create musical experience unavailable through any other means had more in common than one might at first suspect. |
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http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/reviews/feb2002/bk_XENAKIS_coburn.html
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| | Iannis Xenakis |
| | First, in 1953, Xenakis began what is called "musique stochastique", or "stochastic music". | | | But before his music can be talked about in depth, a brief background of Xenakis is necessary to fully understand his ideas of music and what music should be. | | | As Xenakis puts it, "what is impossible in the case of language can be realized in music. |
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http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/xenakis.html
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| | Leonardo On-Line Iannis Xenakis Bibliography |
| | Xenakis Choral Music - Hyperion CDA 66980 (1998) | | | Xenakis - Col Legno WWE 1CD 20504 (2000) | | | Lebens, James C. "An analysis of `Keren' for solo trombone by Iannis Xenakis: Randomly generated music within a symmetrical framework and performance considerations." Doctoral Thesis. |
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http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/Xenakisbib.html
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| | EMF Media Xenakis Electronic Music |
| | Iannis Xenakis is without a doubt one of the major figures in the development of music in the 20th century. | | | 'Orient-Occident' (1960), commissioned by UNESCO as music for a film by Enrico Fulchignoni, uses the sounds of bowed boxes, bells and metal rods, sounds from the ionosphere, and a speed-altered excerpt from Xenakis' orchestral work 'Pitoprakta' are combined to create a work suggestive of the themes of the film, which tracks the development of civilization. | | | His distinct sound is also apparent in 'Concret PH' (1958), based on the sounds of burning charcoal. |
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http://www.emfmedia.org/catalog/em102.html
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| | Iannis Xenakis. Architect of Light and Sound by Alessandra Capanna for the Nexus Network Journal vol.3 no.2 Spring 2001 |
| | Xenakis came up with various conceptions for this project (Figure 4), but the one that was realized consisted of a tent of 1000 square meters of semi-transparent red vinyl, so that the performance was visible also from the outside. | | | Xenakis: Colone/Niuts/Serment/Knephas (Real Audio clips from the album) | | | As a result of the impasse in serial music, as well as other causes, I originated in 1954 a music constructed from the principle of indeterminism; two years later I named it "Stochastic Music". |
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http://www.nexusjournal.com/Capanna-en.html
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| | Iannis Xenakis: the aesethetics of his early works |
| | In "Metastaseis," Xenakis confronted most of the fundamental musical problems and in effect "Metastaseis" presents the foundation for the style and aesthetics he would follow through for a good deal of his musical career with the concept of textural sound composition. | | | In Formalized Music, Xenakis labels this music 'Free Stochastic Music' where the movements of microscopic parts (in orchestration a 'microscopic part' is represented by a single instrument) are subservient to the macroscopic whole which governs the microscopic parts through deterministic tendencies. | | | Finally I said the purpose of this purposeless music would be achieved if people learned to listen; that when they listened they might discover that they preferred the sounds of everyday life to the ones they would presently hear in the musical program; that that was alright as far as I was concerned. |
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| | Polytope von Iannis Xenakis |
| | Xenakis developed this concept of spatially differentiated music for the first time in his orchestral piece Terretektorh (1965 - 66), written for an orchestra which is spread out in space. | | | In addition to this, Xenakis developed in the following years a concept of temporal diversification of the musical space which is especially noticeable in his piece for percussion, Psappha (1975): in the temporal space, slow-speed low tones overlap with medium- and fast-speed high tones. | | | Xenakis unambiguously demarcated this process of the domination of order over disorder from the concept of the total flexibility of musical expression and architectonic design: 'I do not believe in mobile systems, in an infinitely adjustable frame structure. |
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| | Iannis Xenakis |
| | Xenakis as seen by a musicologist who summarizes the history of music after 1945 into serialism. | | | On the Xenakis - Le Corbusier - Varèse collaboration and on Concret PH. | | | Six chapters are devoted to Xenakis, under the general title of "Chance can be calculated": "Crise du néosérialisme"; "The cinetic theory of sound"; "Stochastic rules of composition" ; "Acoustical quanta"; "Markovian chains; "From chaos to the cosmos". |
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| | Iannis Xenakis - Music for Strings |
| | Xenakis pioneered granular synthesis, interactive musical games, computer-generated music, and the translation of higher mathematics (Markov chains, Brownian Motion, sieves, etc.) into music, however new recordings appear infrequently. | | | This CD brings together all of Xenakis’ chamber music for strings for the first time (with the exception of the string quartets). | | | Xenakis: Music for Strings (Mode) collects six captivating pieces for string ensembles of various sizes, from the brief, valedictory Voile for 20 strings (1995) to the lumbering, tour de force for solo double bass, Theraps (1975-76), to the seminal 1959 electronic work Analogique A+B, which betters the version on Iannissimo! |
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| | Browse by Artist: XENAKIS, IANNIS |
| | "Xenakis' piano music is among the most powerful and virtuosic of the latter part of the 20th century. | | | "In honor of Greek composer Iannis Xenakis' 75th birthday, Asphodel is releasing a new recording of the rarely performed 'Kraanerg', one of Xenakis' longest electroacoustic compositions. | | | Titled Persepolis, in honor of the location in which it was to be performed, Xenakis composed a fifty-six minute, eight-track tape piece of musique concrete for the occasion. |
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http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/xenakis.iannis.html
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| | Iannis Xenakis - Persepolis + Remixes (Edition One) - Stylus Magazine |
| | Xenakis’ Persepolis was debuted as part of a complex ceremony in the city itself, complete with torchbearers, a laser light show, and massive speakers emitting this strange composition. | | | While the first disc of this new reissue is dedicated to presenting Persepolis as recorded on the day of its original performance, the second disc of the package features a number of remixes of the track by contemporary figures in the avant-garde world. | | | Antimatter’s mix is a long, slow crawl that transforms Xenakis’ vibrant, emotional music into the sound of wind howling by on an autumn day. |
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http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=1203
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| | Making Time (music columnist Don Mager)-- January/February, 1997 |
| | The Xenakis was presented as a concert on the composer's 75th. | | | The Theodorakis is a live recording of the premier concert at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin, 2 December 1987, but not issued on CD until 1994. | | | Despite these elitist markings, Xenakis music has an aural impact that is visceral, emotive, and arresting. |
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http://eclectica.org/v2n2/making_time.html
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| | EMF Media Iannis Xenakis |
| | Among the numerous CDs available of Xenakis' work, are (electronic music): 'Xenakis: Electronic Music', 'La Legend D'eer'; (Instrumental music): 'Iannis Xenakis 1: Chamber Music 1955-1990', 'Xenakis: Ensemble Music 1' and Xenakis: Ensemble Music 2', 'Kraanerg ', 'Iannissimo! | | | ', and (electronic and instrumental music): 'Xenakis '. | | | He has created several music and light spectacles, as well as his specifically music work. |
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http://www.emfmedia.org/artists/xenakis.html
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| | The Musical Mind of Iannis Xenakis |
| | Indeed, while it is not difficult to appreciate the clear powerful forms in Xenakis’ music, it is very difficult to know which elements of the music are the results of systems and which are the products of his intuition. | | | As in probability theory, in stochastic music dense textures which he called "clouds" or "galaxies" had so many components that the behaviour of each individual component could not be determined, although the composite musical effect could be. | | | The composer likened the principles of stochastic textures to those involved in natural sound phenomena such as "a collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field." |
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http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm6-7/iannis-en.html
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| | BBC - Music / Profiles - Iannis Xenakis |
| | Xenakis on music and much more - fascinating. | | | Xenakis in Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition. | | | These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event. |
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| | Iannis Xenakis |
| | Even though the use of all mathematical theories, which is a method for Xenakis to avoid putting emotion in his music, it definitely is music with beauty, power and character. | | | Iannis Xenakis died on Sunday, February 4, 2001. | | | Between 1967 and 1972 he was Music Professor as well as founder of the Center for Mathematical automated Music (CMAM) at the Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. |
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http://home.wanadoo.nl/eli.ichie/biographyxenakis.html
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| | Xenakis |
| | As music became his sole profession, and especially in the 1970s and 80s, Xenakis' music takes on a more instinctive quality. | | | One thing Xenakis' music rarely lacks is forward momentum, moving as it does from one "place" to another in sometimes bewildering fashion. | | | See also the Xenakis Archive of the Institute for Research on Music and Acoustics - Athens |
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| | Amazon.com: Xenakis: Nuits; Medea: Music: Iannis Xenakis,Conductor: James Wood,Critical Band,Performer: New London ... |
| | The sound quality and performances on the CD are top notch and the pieces show Xenakis' wide range of expression within in his unique style, from the classically restrained A Colonne to the brutal and barbaric Medea and the powerful and anguished Nuits. | | | Iannis Xenakis: Chamber Music, 1955 - 90 ~ Rohan de Saram | | | Buy this album with Iannis Xenakis: Chamber Music, 1955 - 90 ~ Rohan de Saram today! |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000063BN?v=glance
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| | HOMMAGE À IANNIS XENAKIS (1922-2001) 29 September 2001 Strasbourg. |
| | Xenakis' piano concerto Keqrops (1986) coming next was disappointing; the piano part was surprisingly uninteresting when Louise Bessette was playing alone and inaudible against the orchestra; the two seemed unrelated. | | | Zyia (1952) for voice, clarinet and piano, which draws on his Greek folk music and anticipates many of the formal preoccupations in his influential oeuvre, was a discovery for most of us, containing the seeds of many of Xenakis' innovations, quite apart from being an attractive concert piece in its own right. | | | Rene Koering (b.1940) studied with Boulez and Maderna, is music director of Radio France and of the Montpellier orchestra. |
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| | Iannis Xenakis MP3 Downloads - Iannis Xenakis Music Downloads - Iannis Xenakis Music Videos |
| | As its title implies, Ahira Nishimura's "Ketiak" is based on "Kecak," the Ramayana monkey chant memorably captured on the Nonesuch recording Music From the Morning of the World. | | | Arranged for a variety of percussion and including chanted vocal accompaniment, the piece succeeds in spreading the intricate Indonesian rhythms throughout the ensemble in enticing, wavelike forms, but also sacrifices the rough, ecstatic aspect of the source performance, resulting in a composition that feels comparatively bloodless. | | | Iannis Xenakis MP3 Downloads - Iannis Xenakis Music Downloads - Iannis Xenakis Music Videos |
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http://www.mp3.com/albums/560038/reviews.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Xenakis: Pleïades: Music |
| | In its four parts, Xenakis is going to traditional musics ranging from Greece and Turkey to Indonesia, extracting them, and builds a solid piece of music, which I can tell by far is propably the most beautifull in a conservative way. | | | Composed for 6 percusionists and a great number of instruments, ranging from common marimbas to the sixxens (tuned in 1/3 and 2/3 of a tone, specially made for this piece), Xenakis is building a web of superimpossed rythms and 'melody lines'(if someone can use this word for this work). | | | The group of musicians is excellent and a historical recording of this piece. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000007HF
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| | Kyle Gann's Column: November 12, 1996 |
| | Xenakis thinks that sounds interesting, and asks Spooky to send him some recordings. | | | Spooky (who writes for the Voice as Paul Miller) has been invited to operate the machinery in a new, digital manifestation of Xenakis's 75-minute, 1968 classic for tape and orchestra, Kraanerg. | | | So has Xenakis kept up with any other American music? |
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| | Roger Reynolds |
| | My question is how your conceptions of musical form and musical shape and musical structure differ when you're thinking for instruments and when you're thinking for computer, especially in view of these questions of timbre. | | | Now, I can't believe that you do not regard yourself as challenging listeners to rise to the conceptions of your music. | | | I think that, in a way, your music does, because of this extraordinary generality of appeal, generality of force, in the manifestation of sonic experience. |
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| | olats.org - Pionniers & Précurseurs - IANNIS XENAKIS |
| | Xenakis' music embodies inferential dimensions no other composer has managed to harness, dimensions only knowable, I think, to one whose very identity was branded by the indiscriminate violence of shrapnel during demonstrations in Athens on the last day of 1944. | | | But the result of this consonance is unexpectedly raw: aroused by the mapping of presumed-to-be-non-musical phenomena into the sonic world, presenting him with sonic invitations that his informed ear then mediated. | | | In commencing the argument of Formalized Music, he wrote: |
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| | Amazon.com: Orchestral Works 3: Music: Xenakis,Ooi,Tamayo,Luxembourg Po |
| | Buy this album with Xenakis: Orchestral Works, Vol. | | | For fans, this disc is a must-buy (anyone who likes Xenakis will need a recording of Synaphaï); newcomers might do better to start with the Arditti Quartet's double CD or the collection on Col Legno. | | | There are four works on this disc, each one a marvelous addition to the body of Xenakis recordings. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007138P?v=glance
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| | Iannis Xenakis |
| | The final element which established Xenakis’ compositions as monuments in musical progress was his use of cutting-edge technology in recording. | | | These were often so unconventional that the final product barely resembled what anyone at the time thought of as music. | | | The Romanian-born composer Iannis Xenakis is renowned in the field of sound art for his musical innovation in combining science and music. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Obituaries Obituary: Iannis Xenakis |
| | Listening to the music of Iannis Xenakis, who has died aged 78, is like being flung back into some fierce atavistic world before culture existed. | | | There's no doubt Xenakis succeeded in creating a cohesive and instantly recognisable musical world of his own; more debatable is the size and scope of that world. | | | Composer who brought a passion for maths to his music |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,433534,00.html
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| | Splendid Magazine reviews Iannis Xenakis: Persepolis + Remixes |
| | Persepolis is grand (after all, it was written to be broadcast from speakers in the middle of the desert), and as might be expected with a piece by Xenakis, it is highly abstract, complex and nuanced. | | | The liner notes to Persepolis + Remixes give no indication as to whether or not Xenakis had the opportunity to hear any of the second disc's nine remixes, the work of hip experimental artists like Merzbow, Antimatter, Otomo Yoshihide and Laminar (as opposed to, say, dance mixes). | | | Splendid Magazine reviews Iannis Xenakis: Persepolis + Remixes |
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http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=324323272284022
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| | Iannis Xenakis Mycenae-Alpha |
| | Xenakis was inspired by Varese's interest in composition with sound masses and the application of scientific principles to music composition. | | | Mycenae-Alpha received its world premiere in 1978 at the “Polytope of Mycenae” of Xenakis, festival of lights, movement, and music in the surrounding area of the Mycenae Acropolis in Greece. | | | Xenakis has worked with computers and mathematics including probability, set theory, calculus, and game theory and has produced a large and significant body of works for solo instruments, ensembles, orchestra, chorus, and works for tape, as well as several polytopes: sonic and light installations. |
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| | Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music |
| | In addition to the theoretical writings and teaching of Xenakis, there are a varied series of compositions, from the orchestral Metastasis of 1954, Pithoprakta and Achoripsis, to the Empreintes of 1975 and the 1979 Pleïades, for percussion. | | | Naxos Historical, Nostalgia, and Jazz Legends recordings are not available for sale and audio streaming in the United States due to the uncertain legal situation regarding pre-1972 sound recordings | | | BERIO / XENAKIS / KAGEL / CAGE: Works for Solo Trombone |
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| | BBC - Radio 3 - Music Matters - Iannis Xenakis |
| | A special edition of Music Matters dedicated to the life and work of Greek composer, Iannis Xenakis. | | | BBC - Radio 3 - Music Matters - Iannis Xenakis | | | But, what does Xenakis's life story reveal about his music? |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/musicmatters/pip/9ia8e
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| | City Pages - Iannis Xenakis |
| | Surprisingly, then, this new Iannis Xenakis release--which combines the entire audio portion of Xenakis's legendary multimedia spectacle Persepolis with a companion remix CD--is an unexpected delight. | | | Later, things simmer a little with Francisco Lopez's slow-sizzling examination of space and silence, before Merzbow throws in his trademark wall of noise--packed, as always, with enough sonic detail to fill an entire album. | | | Just listen to the travesty that was the Steve Reich remix project if you don't believe me, though you'd be much better advised not to: Reich needed DJ Spooky's weak beats grafted onto his precision minimalism like the world needed another Glass/Bowie collaboration. |
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| | Xenakis, Yannis on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Xenakis used both Greek folk elements and twelve-tone technique in his music. | | | XENAKIS, YANNIS [Xenakis, Yannis], 1922-2001, Greek-French composer, b. | | | He was a founder of the Centre d'Etudes Mathématiques et Automatiques in Paris and of the Center for Mathematical and Automated Music at Indiana Univ. Xenakis wrote several treatises explaining his various theories. |
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| | Morton Feldman and Iannis Xenakis |
| | In other words, I become you when I listen to Xenakis. | | | I use the word terpentine, it's like thinning out the music with terpentine. | | | : See here's where a Xenakis and a Feldman silence meet in equilibrium. |
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| | The Ensemble Sospeso - Iannis Xenakis |
| | Sospeso's tribute concert to this extraordinary composer was on October 19, 2001. | | | From the beginning, Xenakis refused to acknowledge barriers between music and architecture, and indeed stylistic elements that he considered barriers were ruthlessly stripped away. | | | Xenakis articulated his aesthetic theory in his 1963 book Formalized Music, where he uses the term 'stochastic' to describe a music of sound masses, whose activity over time is controlled by a combination of determinacy and randomness. |
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| | IANNIS XENAKIS - Persepolis Plus Remixes - Edition One | | | READ MORE ABOUT: IANNIS XENAKIS, Persepolis Plus Remixes - Edition One, Asphodel | | | Sign up to be notified of new releases by: |
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| | Biography of Iannis Xenakis |
| | Xenakis said in Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition: | | | These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event." | | | Xenakis was a pioneer in the use of computers and electronics in composition, although in later life some of his works were more influenced by folk music. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Brant; Scelsi; Wolpe; Xenakis... [Import]: Music |
| | Look for albums like Brant; Scelsi; Wolpe; Xenakis... | | | Henry Brant (Composer), Giacinto Scelsi (Composer), Stefan Wolpe (Composer), Iannis Xenakis (Composer), John Cage (Composer), Philip Glass (Composer), Morton Feldman (Composer), Kenneth Moore (Conductor), Paul Zukofsky (Performer), Julia Bogorad (Performer), John Carter (Performer), Stan Cortman (Performer), William Curry (Performer), Anne Fagerburg (Performer), John Gockel (Performer), Jean Hansen (Performer), Martin Lydecker (Performer) | | | To hear a song sample, click on the song titles below that are followed by |
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| | Iannis Xenakis, MP3 Music Download at eMusic |
| | Xenakis broke further ground in his studies of spatial dynamics -- positioning musicians throughout an auditorium according to kinetic principles, he pursued a perfect sonic balance based upon the distribution of sound from a multitude of directions. | | | Portions of content provided by All Music Guide, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC | | | Although his oeuvre includes works for ballet and theater, tape constructions and even vocal music, from the mid-'70s onward the majority of Xenakis' compositions grew from orchestral and instrumental origins. |
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| | MTO 7.3: Wannamaker: Structure and Perception in Herma by Iannis Xenakis |
| | The second reason is that no aesthetic motivation for the introduction of the specific discrepancies is evident either in the score or upon listening. | | | HODOS: A Phenomenology of 20th-century Musical Materials and An Approach to the Study of Form; and META Meta | | | Xenakis indicates that seventeen operations, rather than fourteen, are required to compute the right-hand side of Equation 1 (Formalized Music, 173). |
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| | Iannis Xenakis |
| | If you're a brave, intellectual type, you'll probably take a whack at reading them, and you'll find yourself immersed in discussions of Xenakis' "Stochastic music" -- compositions "built" around the sonic translation of a progression from order to disorder, if I'm reading this right. | | | Luckily, you can understand and enjoy Kraanerg without being one of the world's foremost music scholars. | | | Trust me, they'll give you the screaming heebie-jeebies. |
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http://www.splendidezine.com/reviews/dec-22-97/iannis.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Xenakis: Electronic Music [Import]: Music |
| | Look for albums like Xenakis: Electronic Music [Import] by subject: | | | Top of Page : Xenakis: Electronic Music [Import] | | | The closest thing to melody here is something that sounds like a metal plate amplified whist covered in thumbtacks being beaten by chains with a thousand glasses shattering and being filtered for ten minutes. |
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| | Xenakis, Sculptor of Sound |
| | Shortly afterwards, Xenakis split with Schaeffer as well, as the Greek’s approach also did not toe the aesthetic line in the electronic music world. | | | Trained as an architect and engineer, with no real precursors and little musical education, he produced music of both obsessive mathematical rigor and overwhelming primitive force. | | | Of all the European composers of the second half of the twentieth century, Iannis Xenakis was perhaps the most original and uncompromising. |
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| | Ruggles Partch Xenakis soft machine Moondog Machito Stockhausen |
| | Please note that these clips are featured for review purposes only and offered as an encouragement to purchase the cd, if available: if you're a lawyer, tell your record company poobahs to get up off their asses and release more of this stuff on CD!! | | | A roiling eruptive jagged sea of sound, Sun-treader sings with noble clarity. | | | Ruggles Partch Xenakis soft machine Moondog Machito Stockhausen |
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| | He would later come to refer to his method of composing through the use of probabilities as Stochastic music. | | | Largely disinterested in the prevailing trends in modern music at the time, Xenakis pursued his own vision, utilizing mathematics and probability theory to create works oriented more towards sonic textures than melodic or conventional compositional development. | | | In the 1960s he founded a number of mathematical and computer oriented music organizations, including the Centre d'études de Mathématiques et Automatique Musicales in Paris and the Center for Mathematical Automated Music at the Indiana University, as well as creating a graphic-oriented computer system for sound generation (UPIC). |
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| | He was one of the most innovative composers of his time employing, among other things, a method whereby mathematics are applied to form a piece of music. | | | The Romanian-born composer of Greek parentage, Iannis Xenakis began his musical studies in Athens and then went to Paris where he studied under Honegger, Milhaud and Messiaen and adopted French citizenship. |
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