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School me on Iannis Xenakis

luckluck 4,077 Posts
edited November 2007 in Strut Central
...as in, where to begin?

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  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    Electroacoustic Music on Nonesuch.
  • hemolhemol 2,578 Posts
    ...as in, where to begin?

    Check his work for the World's Fair in Paris. Maybe it was 1968? Anyways, he was super mathermatical in his designs. He composed music, and designed a bulding for the music to take place in. Huge glissandos lasting minutes. My favorite thing of his that I've hear is a track called Concrete Ph. It's musique concrete; he processed some recordings of burning charcoal. I'm pretty sure he also had a composition (I could be confusing him with another composer) that was based on a Greek underworld journey myth. Far more spaced out--in a literal sense--and diverse in terms of the sounds going on. Xenakis is not my forte, though, so do more research. Crink is on point with the Nonesuch citation. That's where a lot of the early American and European electroacoustic music found commercial fruition.
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