| Iannis Xenakis in 1975.February 4, 2001) was a Greek composer and one of the most important modernist composers of the 20th century.Romania to Clearchos Xenakis and Fotini Pavlou, and was educated as a child by a series of governesses.Xenakis participated in the Greek Resistance during World War II and, during the period of the British martial law, in the first phase of the Greek Civil War as a member of the students' company Lord Byron of the leftwing ELAS (Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos, Greek People's Liberation Army).He received a severe face wound from a British shell which resulted in the loss of eyesight in one eye.In 1947 he fled under a false passport to Paris.In Paris he worked with Le Corbusier.The Pavillon's hyperbolic structure was, in fact, based on the formative structure of one of his most famous pieces, "Metastaseis," composed some four years earlier.Xenakis performed at many world expositions and fairs, and played annually in the Shiraz Art Festival in Iran.Xenakis's primary teachers of composition were Aristotelis Koundouroff, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, and Olivier Messiaen.His first meeting with Honegger exemplifies his attitude toward formal instruction: asked to play one of his compositions on the piano, Xenakis was stopped promptly as Honegger pointed out parallel fifths and octaves.Xenakis had written them intentionally and refused to "correct" the piece.Honegger attempted to humiliate Xenakis, who simply left to study with Milhaud.However, he believed Milhaud's teaching also imposed restrictions he found arbitrary and inessential.Xenakis was a creative architect, exploring the possibilities of new materials and shapes in construction, and was frequently entrusted with important projects that called on his technical and artistic skills.France's most innovative and promising.Later, Xenakis approached Olivier Messiaen for compositional advice, expecting to have to start his musical studies again from the beginning, but was told "No, you are almost thirty, you have the good fortune of being Greek, of being an architect and having studied special mathematics.Take advantage of these things.Messiaen, whose own compositional style did not follow established precedents, did not try to impose the limitations of baroque counterpoint or serialism as previous teachers had, but rather let Xenakis find his own musical ideas and guided them along.Xenakis attended Messiaen's Paris Conservatoire classes regularly, and his confidence grew along with his compositional skill; he would shortly thereafter combine the mathematical ideas he had been developing in Corbusier's studio with the musical tools he had been honing with Messiaen to produce his first major work.In keeping with his use of probabilistic theories, many of Xenakis's pieces are, in his own words, "a form of composition which is not the object in itself, but an idea in itself, that is to say, the beginnings of a family of compositions."Unlike most of his contemporaries (i.Milton Babbitt, Schoenberg), Xenakis did not want the listener to be aware of the forms and theories used to produce his compositions.This was later revised, expanded and translated into Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition in 1971.In 1966, Xenakis founded the Centre for Automatic and Mathematical Music in Paris and subsequently set up a similar centre at Indiana University.From 1975 to 1978 he was professor of music at Gresham College, London, giving free public lectures.In 1982 Xenakis developed his now renowned Music Timbre and Cadence Scale which is used throughout the research of modern music for quantifying musical styles.He died in Paris in 2001.Indeed from the 1970s onwards Xenakis' use of method became deeply assimilated into his general musical thinking and he reports in interviews from that time that the strict application of statistical processes was no longer necessary to produce the results he was looking for.In a sense his early statements about "looking at music statistically" were a response to what he saw as the mistake of placing too much emphasis on the likely benefits of applying methodology too rigorously."Chronologie", in Portrait(s) de Iannis Xenakis, p.Xenakis: his life in music."Texture as an Organizational Factor in Selected Works of Iannis Xenakis"."Chronologie", in Portrait(s) de Iannis Xenakis, p."Texture as an Organizational Factor in Selected Works of Iannis Xenakis".Xenakis: his life in music.Portrait(s) de Iannis Xenakis Seuil.London: Kahn and Averill.Conversations with Iannis Xenakis.Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Harmonologia Series No.Friends of Xenakis
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it may have been June1st, and the year may have been 1921).The Xenakis couple attended the Bayreuth Festival several times
during the 1920s.Henceforth, the children were raised
by French, German and English nannies.In addition to learning to love mathematics
and Greek and foreign literature, Xenakis also began to discover music there.Xenakis leaves for Athens where he enrolled in a prep school in order
to prepare the competition for entering the Athens Polytechnic Institute.Aristote Koundourov in analysis,
harmony and counterpoint.Considered dead and abandoned there, his father found Iannis
and took him to a hospital where he underwent several operations.United States, Xenakis decides to visit Paris.The latter invites him to audit his
classes, which Xenakis does faithfully in 1952 and less regularly in 1953.India and Japan, and jazz).Schaeffer, Xenakis finally manages to meet with the former,
thanks to a recommendation by Messiaen.Le Sacrifice, Scherchen asks
Xenakis to show him Metastasis, which he immediately offers to conduct.Strobel, the director of the Donaueschingen Festival, who programs it for
the following fall, conducted by Hans Rosbaud.Xenakis denounces the very principle of the series and the polyphonic
organization that is derived from it.It is a string of a finite number of objects.Its origin is
found in the choice of how the 12 tones are arranged.In reality, what
one hears is a bunch of notes in various registers.Consequently, there is a contradiction between the linear
polyphonic system and the audible result, which is a surface, a mass.The first work he does there is Diamorphoses.Paris, as well as in the English translations, Formalized Music cf.There, Xenakis explains the stochastic laws used
in Pithoprakta, which he was composing at the time.Studio, Xenakis collaborates on the Youth and Cultural Center
in Firminy.Philips to realize the music of
this Electronic Poem.Xenakis had a conflict with Le Corbusier, who refused to
grant him the authorship of the Pavilion that he had entirely conceived.European Cultural Foundation, whose jury was presided
by Nicolas Nabokov.Buenos Aires by the Teatro
Colon Orchestra, conducted by Hermann Scherchen.This text is later printed
in his book, Musiques Formelles (op.Achorripsis at the Salle Pleyel in Paris,
conducted by Hermann Scherchen leading the Concerts Lamoureux.Hermann Scherchen at
his Festival in Gravesano.Xenakis, along with two of his colleagues, is dismissed by Le Corbusier.Pithoprakta by Hermann Scherchen.UNESCO, is presented at the Cannes film festival, for which Xenakis wrote
the accompanying electroacoustic music of the same name.Other western composers present include : Berio, Carter, Cowell,
Sessions, as well as the musicologist Stuckenschmidt.Tokyo, including no less
than eighteen instrumental and electracoustic works by western composers.The composer Toru Takemitsu introduces Xenakis to Seiji Ozawa.Scherchen asks Xenakis to draw up plans for an experimental auditorium
in Gravesano.Bruno Maderna and Konstantin Simonovitch.Malec, Parmegiani, Philippot and Xenakis.BnF, music department,
Xenakis archives.His works were very well received
there.GRM studio, which led to the definitive break between Xenakis and
Pierre Schaeffer, to whom the work is dedicated.Fayard, Paris, 1992,
p.Georges Pludermacher had to play the entire piece
as an encore.Xenakis is invited by Aaron Copland to teach composition at the Berkshire
Music Center at Tanglewood (Massachusetts).David Del Tredici were among his students there.Symbolic Music), relating to the compositional principles used in Herma.This volume is subsequently reprinted (in French) by Editions Stock.Spring 1964 : Xenakis lived in West Berlin on a grant from the Ford
Foundation.Theatre, without Xenakis since he still carries a death sentence in Greece
and has been stripped of his Greek nationality.Xenakis obtains the French nationality thanks to the assistance of Georges
Pompidou and Georges Auric.Ensemble instrumental de musique contemporaine de
Paris conducted by Konstantin Simonovitch and with the pianist Yuji Takahashi.Grand Prize from the French Recording Academy.Ensemble instrumental de musique contemporaine de Paris, conducted by Charles
Bruck.Xenakis gives classes and lectures for four weeks at the Institute Torcuati
di Tella in Buenos Aires, where Alfredo Ginastera is director.French Pavilion at
the Montreal World Fair.This work was commissioned by Robert Bordaz.Associate Professor at the University of Indiana
at Bloomington.But, year after year, the project is postponed.ORTF (French Radio) Chorus, conducted by
Marcel Couraud.Contemporary Music Days in Paris, successor event to the
International Music Week in Paris (SMIP), which began in 1958.All these concerts were sold out and for some, people
were turned away.Nomos Alpha, that Xenakis finds pleonastic.Radio) Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Charles Bruck.Xenakis observed that beams of pure light, homogenous and undiffused, are
somewhat like continuous sound.Showcase at the Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York.Aroura at the Lucerne Festival by the Festival
Strings and Rudolf Baumgartner.Mikka by Ivry Gitlis at the Museum of Modern
Art, Paris.British Computer Arts Society.Guy commissions Xenakis to write an opera.Xenakis realized in the Studio Acousti.Xenakis is invited to teach at the Darmstadt summer session.He will again
return there in 1974 and 1990.Paris I, in the visual arts and the sciences of art department.April : Xenakis teaches at the University of Montreal as an invited Eminent
Professor.Orchestra of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, conducted by Michel Tabachnik.These same musicians will perform nine other works by Xenakis in two other
concerts.Gmeeoorh (56 stops), by the Orchestra of the Cologne Radio, conducted
by Michel Tabachnik and Xavier Darasse, respectively.An exhibit about the
composer is also presented.Cologne, where another music of the future has reigned
for some time now, this homage has a weighted meaning.Nouvel Observateur, September 30, 1974.Leonidion, deep in the Peloponnesian Isalnds, who recognized
him from afar, stopped us, and improvised a celebration in his honor.Xenakis was not at all expecting to be welcomed,
accepted, and understood to such a point.Philharmonic Orchestra of the Netherlands Radio,
conducted by Michel Tabachnik.Picture Gallery, conferences by Xenakis and the musicologist Iannis
Papaionnou, plus three concerts at the Herod Atticus Theatre.Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and
Letters.Bonn by the twelve
cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.Elizabeth Chojnacka in Cologne.Yet the arts are governed in a manner even
richer and more complex by this experimental mode.This is the strength of art and, so it seems, its superiority
over the sciences.National Grand Prize for Music from the French Ministry of
Culture.The spectacle was presented five successive evenings, with between
7000 and 10000 spectators attending each performance.Palimpsest, in Aquila (Italy), by the Divertimento
Ensemble, conducted by Sandro Gorli.Contemporary Music Society of
Quebec and the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra.Bonn by Salvatore Accardo and Bruno Canino.Brooklyn Philharmonia, conducted by Lukas Foss.Xenakis is named member of the National Board of Hellenic Resistance.France Chorus, conducted
by Michel Tabachnik.Festival in Brussels by Spyros Sakkas and Claude Helffer.Knight in the French Legion of Honor.London by the London Sinfonietta,
conducted by Elgar Howarth.Parc de la Villette (Paris).This structure surges towards the sky in an inverted tulip shape composed
of hyperbolic paraboloids in reinforced concrete.It is curved all around
and the curve's degree is constantly and uniformly variable.Xenakis is admitted to the French Fine Arts Academy, replacing Georges
Auric.Europa Cantat Festival by the Antifona Chorus from Cluj and the Percussions
de Strasbourg.Officer in the French National Order of Merit.Holland) : Xenakis participates in master classes organized by Morton Feldman,
during which a memorable interview between the two composers took place.Keren at the Festival
Musica in Strasbourg.Lincoln Center, New York by Roger
Woodward and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Zubin Mehta.This work was commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporain for its tenth
anniversary.France International Festival in Montpellier.Orestiadi Festival in Gibellina, directed by Iannis
Kokkos.Local inhabitants participated in this performance.This work, under a new stage direction, will also be performed in Strasbourg
that fall, at the Festival Musica.Sylvio Gualda at the Villa Medicis
during the Roma Europa Festival.And, can one imagine a rule without
repetition?Besides, a single event in an absolute eternity
of time and space would make no sense.Music, Pendragon, 1992, p.Settembre Musica da Torino Festival is entirely dedicated to
Xenakis.Kamejama Honyokuji Temple in Osaka,
as part of the International Kite Exhibit.Doctor Honoris Causa at the Edimburgh University and also a foreign
member of the Swedish Royal Academy.Epicycle, as part of the London Greek Festival.Oophaa at the Warsaw Autumn Festival,
by Elizabeth Chojnacka and Sylvio Gualda.Xenakis is a Distinguished Resident at the University of Southern California
in San Diego.Nineteen of his works are performed in student concerts.Shinsei Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Hiroyuki
Iwaki.Montpellier by the Montpellier
Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zoltan Pesko.Spyros Sakkas and the Radiotelevision Orchestra of Athens, conducted
by Michel Tabachnik.France Chorus, conducted by
Denis Dupays.Jacopo Scalfi and
Roger Woodward at La Scala in Milan.Elizabeth Hall by Joe Dixon, baritone and the Premiere Ensemble of the Opera
Factory, conducted by Nicholas Kork.Works for and with harpsichord are presented
as well as electroacoustic pieces.Polytope de Cluny is given at the Ultima Festival in Oslo.Claude Risset is the sound engineer.Xenakis Day is organized at the Seoul University by Yuji Takahashi.Ballet Company, choreographed by Lucinda Childs, based on Naama, Oopha,
and Psappha, played by Elizabeth Chojnacka and Sylvio Gualda.Cannes, Grenoble, and
Amsterdam.Jeunes Solistes, conducted by Rachid Safir.Knight in the Greek Phoenix Legion and Commander in the French
National Order of Merit.Amsterdam during the Holland Festival by the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble.New York by Edna Michell
and Ole Akahoshi during the Lincoln Center Festival of Arts.Stefano Scodanibbio at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk as part of the Musik der
Zeit Festival.Xenakis is awarded the Kyoto Prize in Japan.Change in London by the BBC Symphonic
Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Davies.Evelyn Glennie (solo percussion) and the London Sinfonietta, conducted
by Markus Stenz.Bloch University and Museum of Modern Art
in Strasbourg.Xenakis Festival in Nicosia and Larnaka (Cyprus).Music and Mathematics Days at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.Over twenty works for orchestra by Xenakis are presented.Le Sacrifice, Metastasis) in Munich, conducted
by Charles Zacharie Bornstein.Iannis Xenakis dies at home at five in the morning.He was seriously wounded as a Greek resistance fighter,
and went on to training in mathematics and architecture prior to
music.His early music has its origins there, especially as his
works accompanied intricate architectural constructions.Although equations and formalistic ideas form an important
component of Xenakis' musical style, they do not overwhelm it.Xenakis' music takes on a more instinctive quality.To some degree, it is the use of mathematical processes which
allows Xenakis to discover patterns and communicable musical ideas
out of a totally unrestricted musical vocabulary.The
latter is an important aspect of Xenakis' work, and perhaps the
main reason for its broad reception: He is not limited by instrumental
combinations, by tempered scales, by scales at all or by simultaneity.There
is an abundance of rhythmic energy, quickly changing harmonies,
and usually a strongly visceral quality.The following list will not survey recordings of Xenakis' music
in any comprehensive way, but will hopefully provide a worthwhile
overview nonetheless.Xenakis' output is generally very difficult to classify, especially
as he does not use instrumental combinations consistently.The above set provides a valuable overview of Xenakis' oeuvre
in its ability to concentrate on specific instrumental combinations
(or solos).It also shows the varied style his works adopted over
the years, even when confined to specific forces.It remains,
perhaps, the one indispensable Xenakis issue, played with great
professionalism and precision.What the above set does not do, however, is provide much of a
glimpse of the vast array of sonorities which Xenakis' mixed chamber
and orchestral works contain.There is no clear divide between
chamber and orchestral music in Xenakis' oeuvre, as he uses and
combines forces freely.Many works are for numbers between those
of the traditional forces.Part of another series:
Xenakis Complete Vol.It also leans more toward
conveying the raw energy of Xenakis' music rather than the almost
mathematical precision of the former.The above recording does not feature the same density of ideas
as the others, but provides a welcome opportunity to hear Xenakis'
development unfold over a larger span of time.Athens
Back to Modern music page.The 1950's marked an extraordinary era of music experimentation and development in the current of emerging European composers.Amongst these, Iannis Xenakis would begin to compose his first mature works.In assessing how Xenakis came to use aesthetics grounded in abstract mathematics one must examine his early life prior to mature music composition.From an early age it seems Xenakis had been mapping out his intelligence and capabilities as though for his benefit alone.He also took up studying harmony and counterpoint with Aristotle Kondourov "who impressed upon Xenakis the necessity of absolute rigour and discipline in the pursuit of composition."Therefore the assimilation of interests that shaped his aesthetic principles in music, namely those of mathematics, physics, astronomy and ancient literature6 can be traced back to his early years of education, and his highly disciplined approach to formalizing music can also be traced back to his first formal music lessons with Kondourov in these years.It would take Xenakis another seven years to finally graduate with his diploma of engineering.During these years, Xenakis would mostly involve himself as a Communist resistance fighter against the Germans, who had occupied Greece, and he was frequently involved in mass resistance demonstrations, often finding himself in prison as a result.At the end of those seven years, in November 1947, Xenakis illegally fled to Paris where his diploma of engineering landed him work with the famous French architect Le Corbusier.Evidently, Le Corbusier and the influence of architectural work gave Xenakis impetus to apply a visual approach to music by applying the technical facilities inherent in architectural design to the same plateau as music design.This technical grounding was further encouraged by Messiaen, composer and then lecturer in musical analysis at the Paris Conservatoire, with of whom it was suggested by Le Corbusier that a meeting should take place between the two.At that point, Xenakis was becoming disillusioned by other teachers of composition, namely Milhaud and Honegger, who assessed Xenakis' compositions with complete stubbornness.Not until he approached Messiaen after an analysis class did Xenakis finally attain a clear directed response of the path in which he should take.No, you are almost thirty, you have the good fortune of being Greek, of being an architect and having studied special mathematics.Take advantage of these things.Although Messiaen and Le Corbusier acted as final catalysts in assuring Xenakis' mature compositional style to be born, the impact of the war definitely marked itself on him, as it did with all composers at that time.The Second World War definitely impressed itself on European composers of this period.Everyone had recollections, images, experiences and impressions involving the different senses, but especially recollections of extraordinary sounds heard during air raids, sirens, explosions, bombing.Several composers, among them Stockhausen, Berio, Xenakis, report detailed accounts of aural phenomena which have remained with them twenty years after the experience.The war had accustomed them to a sound world which had never seemed possible before and each one had to adjust to it in his own way.The war experience was to leave a profound effect upon Xenakis' music and intertwining creative thought.It is an event of great power and beauty in its ferocity.Then the impact between the demonstrators and the enemy occurs.The perfect rhythm of the last slogan breaks up in a huge cluster of chaotic shouts, which also spreads to the tail.The crowd is then rapidly dispersed, and after sonic and visual hell follows a detonating calm, full of despair, dust and death.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.Peter Hoffmann, on the other hand, labels this music 'Macroscopic Stochastic Music' which illustrates this point more clearly than Xenakis' label.This mass event is articulated and forms a plastic mould of time, which itself follows aleatory and stochastic laws.However, the formal methods for ordering the sonic state of 'noise' between Xenakis and his European contemporaries were highly different.Where a trend amongst European composers was taking serialism to its most extreme manifestation in a total serialization of a number of the musical elements, this was attacked by Xenakis in his 1954 article "The Crisis of Serial Music."In this he commented that in serial music "linear polyphony destroys itself by its very complexity" producing "nothing but a mass of notes in different registers" and also noted the contradiction between the "deterministic causality" of serial methods and the actual effect of "an irrational and fortuitous dispersion of sounds over the whole extent of the sonic spectrum."As he wrote in Formalized Music, "this article served as a bridge to my introduction of mathematics in music."As much as his rejection of serialism as unsuitable for his compositional objectives, Xenakis also rejected the John Cagean manifestation of chance music as he remarked in an interview, "for myself this attitude is an abuse of language and is an abrogation of a composer's function."John Cage first applied the fundamental philosophical principle of chance to music, that is, "to remove from music any reference to tradition or any trace of subjectivity."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.When an interviewer asked Xenakis why he avoids using fortuitous sounds in his compositions, Xenakis promptly answered, "we all have fortuitous sounds in our daily lives.They are completely banal and boring.I'm not interested in reproducing banalities."The assumption that removing certain constraints from a performing situation frees the player and audience from learned responses and habits was rejected by Xenakis who asserted that on the contrary the player was likely to fall back on his habitual conditioned behaviour or merely oppose it in the most superficial way under pressure of performance.To equate chance with the suspension of responsibility by the composer in the name of freedom was illusory.He also noted that composers never relinquished their authorship over performances despite claims made in the name of chance which smacked to him not only of inconsistency, but piracy.Contemporaries like Boulez and Stockhausen also explored chance differently from Cage in this decade, "where the performer is placed in a position to make spontaneous or rehearsed decisions about the ordering of the music."Xenakis' fundamental approach to chance, however, differed in that it applied reason and order to 'controlling' chance the most progressively it possibly could with the knowledge available at that time in the field of science and mathematics.Therefore Xenakis' eagerness to embrace chance and chaos and try to understand what role these concepts play in our world led to what role they could play in the creation of his music.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 his 1954 article "Les Metastaseis," Xenakis describes this concept: "the sonorities of the orchestra are building materials, like brick, stone and wood...The massed moving formations of string glissandi and 'brass in total disorder', as Xenakis describes, that occur in "Metastaseis" and later in "Pithoprakta" relate to the kinetic theory of gases.This theory states that "the temperature of a gas derives from the independent movement of its molecules."Xenakis drew an analogy between the movement of a gas molecule through space and that of a string instrument through its pitch range.While in "Metastaseis" Xenakis applied the kinetic theory of gases to organize musical materials, the materials themselves, such as pitch, were acquired via a dodecaphonic row set with time (at the opening) ordered by the Fibonacci series (both common sources for organization amongst European composers at the time), which is why some critics argue that "Pithoprakta" is Xenakis' first truly mature musical composition in a style that acquires all its musical elements through mathematical theories and principles.The concept of 'sound masses' and the textural use of the orchestra (for example glissandi, pizzicati) remain similar in "Pithoprakta", however the musical materials were undertaken purely by using Probability theory ("Pithoprakta" literally means 'actions through probabilities').Xenakis would still apply other theories and principles in creating the music, such as the theory of gases and Poisson's law of sparse events, which dictates the sparse textures late in the work, but the importance of Probability theory was, according to Christopher Butchers, of vast importance in the blending of science and art.Butchers wrote that "Xenakis is, to my knowledge, the first in any artistic field both to invoke the notion of chance and to use it in a way which is acceptable rigorously to modern logic."Each line represents a string instrument named on the vertical axis, starting with the lowest register at the bottom to the highest at the top while the horizontal axis represents time.Therefore, the style of 'stochastic music' that Xenakis created amidst a wilderness of other experimental trends was to stand out as his own unique entity.Second World War or the song of cicadas in a summer field, Xenakis applied mathematical theories and principles in assembling the makeup of this music that grounded its sonic principle as textural sound composition.Aesthetically, theories such as the kinetic theory of gases and Probability theory became two major standpoints in organizing the musical materials in his first two works "Metastaseis" and "Pithoprakta."Iannis Xenakis, "Xenakis on Xenakis," Perspectives of New Music, vol.Mario Bois, Iannis Xenakis: The Man and his Music: A Conversation with the Composer and a Description of his Works, (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980), p.Xenakis, "Xenakis on Xenakis," Perspectives of New Music, p."There you have got parallel fifths.""And there, parallel octaves.""But all this, it's not music, except for the first three measures, and even those..."Iannis Xenakis, Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971), p.Peter Hoffmann, "Iannis Xenakis," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol.London: Macmillan, 2001), p.Xenakis, Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition, p.Xenakis, Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition, p.Bois, Iannis Xenakis: The Man and his Music: A Conversation with the Composer and a Description of his Works, p.London: Macmillan, 2001), p.Wei Choong, Iannis Xenakis and Elliott Carter: A Detailed Examination and Comparative Study of Their Early Output and Creativity, (Brisbane: Griffith University, 1996), p.Xenakis, Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition, p.Hoffmann, "Iannis Xenakis," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, p.Xenakis, Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition, p.Hoffmann, "Iannis Xenakis," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, p.Choong, Iannis Xenakis and Elliott Carter: A Detailed Examination and Comparative Study of Their Early Output and Creativity, p.Paul Griffiths, "Xenakis: Logic and Disorder," Musical Times, vol.Christopher Butchers, "The Random Arts: Xenakis, Mathematics and Music," Tempo, vol.Philip Truman for his helpful editing advice."Are you sure you want to block this user?And no, I am not Xenakis...February 4, 2001 Paris) was a Greek composer and architect who spent much of his life in Paris.He was born in Braila, Romania to Clearchos Xenakis and Fotini Pavlou, and studied architecture and engineering in Athens, Greece.Xenakis participated in the Greek Resistance during World War II and in the first phase of the Greek Civil War as a member of the students' company Lord Byron of ELAS (Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos, Greek People's Liberation Army).He received a severe face wound from a British shell which resulted in the loss of eyesight in one eye.In 1947 he fled under a false passport to Paris.In the meantime, in Greece he was sentence, in absentia, to death.In Paris he worked with Le Corbusier.Later, he composed one of his most famous pieces, Metastasis based on the architecture of the Pavilion itself.It remains one of his masterpieces.Xenakis performed at many world expositions and fairs, and played annually in the Shiraz Art Festival in Iran.Xenakis's primary teachers of composition were Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, and Olivier Messiaen.At the time he began composing in earnest, Xenakis had not had much formal study of music and almost nothing of theory, and so he studied harmony and counterpoint with whoever was willing to accept him as a student despite his vast gaps in knowledge and reluctance to defer to established authority.His first meeting with Honegger exemplifies his attitude toward formal instruction: asked to play one of his compositions on the piano, Xenakis was stopped promptly as Honegger pointed out parallel fifths and octaves.Xenakis had written them intentionally and refused to "correct" the piece.Honegger attempted to humiliate Xenakis, who simply left to study with Milhaud.Xenakis was a creative architect, exploring the possibilities of new materials and shapes in construction, and was frequently entrusted with important projects that called on his technical and artistic skills.France's most innovative and promising.Later, Xenakis approached Olivier Messiaen for compositional advice, expecting to have to start his musical studies again from the beginning, but was told "No, you are almost thirty, you have the good fortune of being Greek, of being an architect and having studied special mathematics.Take advantage of these things.Messiaen, whose own compositional style did not follow established precedents, did not try to impose the limitations of baroque counterpoint of serialism as previous teachers had, but rather let Xenakis find his own musical ideas and guided them along.Xenakis attended Messiaen's Paris Conservatoire classes regularly, and his confidence grew along with his compositional skill; he would shortly thereafter combine the mathematical ideas he had been developing in Corbusier's studio with the musical tools he had been honing with Messiaen to produce his first major work.Nomos Alpha), and Boolean algebra (in Herma and Eonta), Brownian motion (in N'Shima).In keeping with his use of probabilistic theories, many of Xenakis's pieces are, in his own words, "a form of composition which is not the object in itself, but an idea in itself, that is to say, the beginnings of a family of compositions."Milton Babbitt, Schoenberg), Xenakis did not want the listener to be aware of the forms and theories used to produce his compositions.In 1966, Xenakis founded the Centre for Automatic and Mathematical Music in Paris and subsequently set up a similar centre at Indiana University."Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"Thanx for supporting SoniCreationS!Coach purse with a wallet totally FREE and it really came in the mail!!KNOW its no joke now, i'm gunna act real fast and get a few more to 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Our planet is covered with oceans of chocolate, vanilla cream and orange marmelade.Xenakis: His Life In Music
by James Harley
Welcome to the website of Xenakis: His Life
In Music.Press in 2004, has been authored by James
Harley.It represents approximately a decade of work studying the music
of Iannis Xenakis, one of the most original and important contemporary composers.This site is designed to enhance the book by providing extra figures as well as score and audio examples.Links to each figure are listed in order and each one provides a page number which corresponds to the section in the book which discusses that particular figure.When viewing some figures (especially score examples), clicking the image should bring up a larger and clearer view.Iannis Xenakis Bibliography and Discography (by James Harley) last
updated Mar.For more information about the book, Iannis Xenakis or any of his work, you are welcome to send an email to James Harley.His family moved
back to their native Greece in 1932.The year he entered the
Polytechnic, 1940, was also the year that Italy invaded Greece.Xenakis became increasingly active in the student demonstrations
of the Greek Resistance and was incarcerated several times.In 1945, Xenakis suffered a shell wound to his
face that disabled his left eye.Xenakis planned to flee to the United States.Xenakis to pursue that interest.Messiaen encouraged Xenakis's uncommon background in architecture
and mathematics, saying, "Take advantage of these things.Xenakis's music in Paris, "I find it interesting
that you don't approach music as a musician.Xenakis, whose name
means "gentle stranger," became a French citizen in 1965.Xenakis composed at Pierre
Schaeffer's electronic studio.Schaeffer, though the work was dedicated to
Schaeffer.School of Mathematical and Automated Music in Paris
(CEMAMu) in 1966 and later a sister institution at Indiana University.Xenakis has also created, among other things, a tool for writing
electronic music called UPIC.Xenakis (a discussion with Xenakis at the Computer Music
Festival in Delhpi, Greece).Name:Iannis XenakisProfile: "With the aid of electronic computers the composer becomes a sort of pilot ...In 1963, he published Musique Formelles, a collection of his articles relating music, architecture, and mathematics.V, NTSC, Multichannel, 5.Contemporaneo Piano 1991 (2xCD)
Mikka S.The Most Frightening Music In The Universe (2xCD)
The Pleiades, First Mo...De L'Objet Sonore (3xLP)
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