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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