Bullshit. The important is the musical result, whatever the theory. And the results are really poor. You can't hear his music for a time longer than one minute. So it's worthless. Just a show-off of the French, as if they have discovered sth great! Just WORTHLESS.
"Xenakis week" first of three concerts held on theater of herodes atticus Athens. In front of 4000 spectators. Various compositions of Xenakis where played from a 70 member french orchestra conducted by Michael Dapaznik specialized in conducting Iannis Xenakis compositions.
GIANNIS XENAKIS, one of the most important Greek composers and architects of the 20th century, internationally known as IANNIS XENAKIS, is self-assembling in the 1983 MONOGRAPHY program. He first quotes information about his life. From the Delphi Museum Museum, where the most important exhibits of the museum are displayed, it describes its resistance and political action and explains the reasons why the "multiple artistic thinking" fascinated him and which led him to the combination of art, philosophy and science in his art. GIANNIS XENAKIS continues his studies at the Department of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, refers to the pioneering synthetic methods he has discovered and his collaboration with the well-known architect Le Corbusier He also speaks of the value of art architecture with references to Byzantine and Greek folk architecture and attributes the definition of Greekness and art. Finally, he describes the way he perceives music, as well as the special character of his musical synthesis technique. After 27:00 minute. 1992 in Athens "Oresteia" is presented. Honoring the 70 years of Xenakis.
Its notheworthy that the argentinian composer and engineer Fernando Von Reichenbach invented a very similar machine back in 1967 (named "Catalina"), and Xenakis got inspired by that. It's a pity that often big name personalities also take all the awknoledgement into their legend for the effort of other less known people of their era.
On ne sait pas ce qu'est devenu cette machine qu'est l'UPIC. Il faudrait à minima sauvegarder au moins les schémas de principes de la partie électronique ainsi que le source du logiciel.
RingofRae, Xennakis dit: un regard neuf sur le monde et sur nous-memes, pas un "un regard neutre"... bon, en tout cas à part ce passage sur la valeur su passé qui ne pas une chaine, il y a bcp de cérébral au début surtout dans tout ça, je trouve....
