
	Where results make sense

Topic: Iannis Xenakis

Related Topics

Nomos Alpha

Thanos Mikroutsikos

Stochastic

Nikos Skalkottas

Group theory

Gheorghe Marinescu

Manos Hadjidakis

Hellenic Civil War

Civil war

Vicky Leandros

Vassilis Vassilikos

Demis Roussos

Kostas Karyotakis

George Mitsikostas

Vangelis

In the News (Mon 4 Jun 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Iannis Xenakis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iannis_Xenakis (1274 words)

	EMF Media Iannis Xenakis
		Iannis Xenakis is one of the most important composers of the 20th century.
		Xenakis' interest in graphical interfaces, led him to invent the UPIC (the computer draws shapes which are used to control various musical parameters), which has been used by numerous important composers, including Jean-Claude Risset, Cort Lippe, Joji Yuasa and others.
		Iannis Xenakis directed the CEMAMu, and has taught at Indiana University (Bloomington), where he founded the Center for Mathematical and Automated Music, at City University in London, and the University of Paris-I-Sorbonne.
	www.emfmedia.org /artists/xenakis.html (406 words)

	Iannis Xenakis Mycenae-Alpha
		Iannis Xenakis was born in 1922 into a Greek family residing in Braila, Rumania.
		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.
		Xenakis' music depends on giving aural life to shapes and patterns of movement, whether invisible, as in a cloud, or invisible, as in the movement of molecules in a gas.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~ewrbumst/xenakis.html (769 words)

	Iannis Xenakis - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Xenakis' engineering studies and architectural work directly impacted his musical ideas (and vice versa) -- on the belief that composition develops outside of music, he built upon mathematical and philosophical principles to develop his stochastic theory (adapting the name from "stochos," the Greek word for "goal").
		Xenakis explored the inner structural organization of composing, applying theories of statistical probability to discover the interrelationships between organized sound and music; with the advent of computer technology, he translated his findings into programs which created new compositional families.
		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.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,512116,00.html (541 words)

	Iannis Xenakis. Architect of Light and Sound by Alessandra Capanna for the Nexus Network Journal vol.3 no.2 Spring 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the fifties, Xenakis was developing these kind of thoughts and was asking himself first of all about rules in composition and whether is possible to produce something in music or in any other field in the total absence of rules, or in other words, in an absolutely free way.
		With the aid of a computer, Xenakis was able to explore the large universe of configurations based on the variation of sonorous density, in the same way in which the of material or spatial density are delineated, through the application the formulas of the calculus of probability.
		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.
	www.nexusjournal.com /Capanna-en.html (2730 words)

	Masterpiece's of 20th-Century Multi-channel Tape Music: Xenakis
		Iannis Xenakis was born in Braïla, Romania in 1922.
		Xenakis concedes, however, that he was more interested in studying composition than in being an architect during this time.
		Xenakis departed from the purer, more transparent appropriations of musique concrète that prevailed at Schaeffer's studio and instead explored the deeper structures of his sound materials, preferring extremely rich sounds or extremely faint sounds highly amplified.
	www.music.columbia.edu /masterpieces/notes/xenakis/bio.html (602 words)

	Iannis Xenakis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iannis Xenakis is of Greek origin despite his Romanian birthplace.
		Xenakis had tremendous skills in mathematics and engineering, and it was during this time that he also took time to build up his compositional skills.
		It was during this time, the decade of the 1950s, in which Xenakis truly grew as a composer and began to blaze his own trails in music.
	csunix1.lvc.edu /~snyder/em/xenakis.html (1734 words)

	Media Art Net \| Xenakis, Yannis (Iannis): Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Xenakis was inspired by Varese’s interest in composition with sound masses and the application of scientific principles to music composition.
		Xenakis continued his collaboration with Le Corbusier from 1947 to 1958 and later founded the School of Mathematical and Automated Music in Paris in 1966.
		Xenakis has worked with computers and mathematics including probability, set theory, calcullus, and game theory and has produced a large and signifant body of works for solo instruments, ensembles, orchestra, chorus, and works for tape, as well as several polytopes: sonic and light installations.
	www.medienkunstnetz.de /artist/xenakis/biography (260 words)

	Leonardo Digital Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The passing of John Cage in 1992 and Iannis Xenakis in 2001 brought to a close a century of musical creation that, in the hands of many composers, valued experience over object, discovery over predictability.
		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.
		Xenakis is considered to be one of the more difficult composers of the twentieth century and approaching his music historically, aesthetically, or analytically is often avoided.
	mitpress2.mit.edu /e-journals/Leonardo/reviews/feb2002/bk_XENAKIS_coburn.html (925 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Iannis Xenakis
		Xenakis was born in Romania and at the age of 10 was taken to Greece by his wealthy Greek parents.
		Xenakis soon found himself involved in some of the master's most important projects, including the convent at la Tourette and the Philips pavilion for the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
		By this time Xenakis was 32 and had lost "much time and also much hope." But through the 60s he laboured to bring more and more mathematical tools into music.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,433534,00.html (759 words)

	The Ensemble Sospeso - Iannis Xenakis
		Xenakis was born into a prosperous Greek family in Braïla, a Romanian city on the Danube delta opening into the Black Sea, in 1922.
		Xenakis completed his engineering degree in 1946, but his continued political engagement-inflamed by the British and American support of the exiled Greek right-wing government, by the virtual capitulation of the Greek left, and by British rule in Cyprus-resulted in imprisonment.
		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.
	www.sospeso.com /contents/composers_artists/xenakis.html (1626 words)

	Iannis Xenakis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iannis Xenakis was born in 1922 into a Greek family residing in Romania.
		In the domain of computer music, Xenakis was a pioneer in the area of algorithmic composition, and also developed an approach to digital synthesis based on random generation and variation of the waveform itself.
		Xenakis passed away in 2001, having achieved a tremendous impact on contemporary music of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
	www.bonkfest.org /2004/artists/iannis_xenakis.html (341 words)

	Biography of Iannis Xenakis
		Composer Iannis Xenakis (first name sometimes transliterated as Yannis) was born in Braïla, Romania on 29 May 1922.
		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.
		Xenakis was made an Officer of the French Legion d'Honneur and Commander L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1991.
	www.biogs.com /famous/xenakis.html (397 words)

	Iannis Xenakis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Romanian-born composer Iannis Xenakis is renowned in the field of sound art for his musical innovation in combining science and music.
		Xenakis’ education in architecture was another huge influence on his work.
		The final element which established Xenakis’ compositions as monuments in musical progress was his use of cutting-edge technology in recording.
	tiger.towson.edu /~pcheno1/xenakis.html (346 words)

	Kyle Gann's Column: November 12, 1996
		Xenakis, for his part, has little idea that a popular Manhattan musician with his own aesthetic and following is involved in this digital restoration.
		Xenakis, ever the formalist from a formalist generation, doesn't speak in such associative terms.
		Xenakis had turned to math to create what he thought were forms of classical perfection; postmodern Spooky hears in those tortured forms "free association and the psychological impact of memory, a kind of controlled delirium." And when I ask Xenakis's impression of DJ Spooky's work as an avant-garde DJ, he replies, "Watt eez dee-zhay?"
	home.earthlink.net /~kgann/index23.html (1022 words)

	Xenakis, Yannis on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Xenakis studied civil engineering in Athens (1940-47) and worked as an architect in Paris (1947-59) with Le Corbusier.
		Xenakis used both Greek folk elements and twelve-tone technique in his music.
		In 1958, Xenakis collaborated with Edgar Varèse on the Poème Electronique.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/xenakis.asp (380 words)

	Iannis Xenakis - Persepolis + Remixes (Edition One) - Stylus Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Xenakis subtly transitions between different sounds, creating a thick, slow-moving liquid soup that often seems nearly static because all the changes are taking place on a grand scale.
		Xenakis may have been charged with capturing the majesty of Persepolis, but what he evokes here is a ruined and tainted splendor, haunted by fear and danger.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=1203 (964 words)

	The Musical Mind of Iannis Xenakis
		Xenakis turned to a mathematical model which was designed to deal more adequately with complex textures.
		Xenakis’ personal voice speaks through much of his music in a way that demonstrates both his musicality and his ability to create systems which promoted this musicality.
		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.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm6-7/iannis-en.html (941 words)

	Polytope von Iannis Xenakis
		Iannis Xenakis brought this spatial concept to completion in the design of the side chapel for La Tourette: he created a dark, intangible space.
		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.
		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.
	www.oswalt.de /en/text/txt/xenakis.html (2574 words)

	Iannis Xenakis: the aesethetics of his early works
		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.
		Xenakis drew an analogy between the movement of a gas molecule through space and that of a string instrument through its pitch range.
		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.
	www.furious.com /perfect/xenakis.html (3034 words)

	Xenakis
		Xenakis' music has become increasingly well-known among people involved in hearing or creating contemporary classical music, and so his relatively unusual circumstances no longer present a barrier to his public reception.
		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.
		Xenakis' output is generally very difficult to classify, especially as he does not use instrumental combinations consistently.
	www.medieval.org /music/modern/xenakis.html (729 words)

	Iannis Xenakis
		On the Xenakis - Le Corbusier - Varèse collaboration and on Concret PH.
		Xenakis as seen by a musicologist who summarizes the history of music after 1945 into serialism.
		The author defines abstraction for Xenakis as stemming from his desire to unify several realms and suggests that he obtains this unity without sacrificing their differences.
	www.iannis-xenakis.org /english/other.htm (8194 words)

	MTO 7.3: Wannamaker: Structure and Perception in Herma by Iannis Xenakis
		Xenakis is clearly serious about his conception of the work as a temporal flboard upon which is inscribed a set-theoretic argument demonstrating the equivalence of two different expressions for the target set F.
		Nonetheless, as Xenakis himself has observed regarding total serial organization (see note 18), the perceived results can be similar to those obtained using random procedures and the qualitative similarities between the two pieces in question are easy enough to hear.
		Xenakis observes that the form of Equation 2 is more computationally efficient than the disjunctive normal form of Equation 1 in the sense that it involves fewer total union, intersection, and complementation operations.
	www.societymusictheory.org /mto/issues/mto.01.7.3/mto.01.7.3.wannamaker.html (8155 words)

	Iannis Xenakis
		Born in Romania, Iannis Xenakis was the son of a Greek shipping merchant, raised primarily by a series of governesses after the death of his mother when he was only five.
		After settling in Paris, Xenakis began a career in architecture, working as an assistant to Le Corbusier throughout the remainder of the 1940s and the entirety of the 1950s.
		Xenakis remained active as a composer well into the 1990s, in the end forced to abandon his work by memory loss and persistant illness.
	www.nndb.com /people/753/000026675 (434 words)

	Leonardo On-Line Iannis Xenakis Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iannis Xenakis was born in 1922 into a Greek family residing in Braila, Romania.
		Xenakis had his first major succès du scandale with the premiere of Metastasis at the Donaueschingen Festival in 1955, and by 1960, he was able to devote himself entirely to composition.
		Iannis Xenakis died on 4 February 2001 at age 78.
	mitpress2.mit.edu /e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/Xenakisbib.html (4333 words)

	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.
		In 1957, he joined Pierre Schaeffer and others at the GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) in Paris, and it was there that Xenakis composed his early works for electronic tape.
		Xenakis' distinct sound is already apparent in 'Diamorphoses' (1957) which incorporates sounds of distant earthquakes, car crashes, jet engines, and other 'noise-like' sounds.
	www.emfmedia.org /catalog/em102.html (264 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)