Exploring Xenakis: Performance, Practice, Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring Xenakis: Performance, Practice, Philosophy write by Alfia Nakipbekova. This book was released on 2019-07-15. Exploring Xenakis: Performance, Practice, Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considered to be one of the most revolutionary composers of the twentieth century, Iannis Xenakis pushed the boundaries of classical music. As a largely self-taught composer, Xenakis drew from his technical training in engineering and architecture to produce music that had the ability to both unnerve and enrapture his audiences. Motivated by his intense study of many scientific disciplines, he employed the mathematical rules of the natural world to test the traditional rules of counterpoint and harmony, and to explore the spatial texture of sound, colour and architecture. The Romanian-born Greek-French composer transformed twentieth century classical music for decades to come, leaving behind an undeniable legacy that continues to inspire and even shock listeners to this day. By approaching Xenakis’s creative output from a variety of perspectives, the contributors to this edited volume seek not only to situate Xenakis’s music within a larger cultural, social and political context but also to shed light on contemporary issues surrounding his work. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of Xenakis’s music (in the context of particular works) and musical philosophy: mathematical, structural, performative, as well as the genesis of his compositional style and distinctive sound. Xenakis’s artistic presence on the contemporary music scene, his political influence during the tumultuous protests in Paris ’68, and his first piano composition, Herma, are also explored in-depth providing new insights into the life and work of this avant-garde figure. This book will appeal to contemporary music researchers, students and scholars and may also be of interest to artists, performers and composers, alike.
Formalized Music
Formalized Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Formalized Music write by Iannis Xenakis. This book was released on 1992. Formalized Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pendragon Press is proud to offer this new, revised, and expanded edition of Formalized Music, Iannis Xenakis's landmark book of 1971. In addition to three totally new chapters examining recent breakthroughs in music theory, two original computer programs illustrating the actual realization of newly proposed methods of composition, and an appendix of the very latest developments of stochastic synthesis as an invitation to future exploration, Xenakis offers a very critical self-examination of his theoretical propositions and artistic output of the past thirty-five years. This edition of Formalized Music is an essential tool for understanding the man and the thought processes of one of this century's most important and revolutionary musical figures.
Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iannis Xenakis write by Iannis Xenakis. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Iannis Xenakis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Xenakis
Xenakis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Xenakis write by James Harley. This book was released on 2004-08-02. Xenakis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual innovations that shaped them. Harley examines the relationship between the composer and two early influences: Messiaen and Le Corbusier. Particular attention is paid to analyzing works which were vital to the composer’s creative development, from early, unpublished works to the breakthrough pieces Metastasis and Pithoprakta, through the oft-discussed decade of formalization and the evolving styles of the succeeding three decades.
Music and Architecture
Music and Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Architecture write by Iannis Xenakis. This book was released on 2008. Music and Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fills a major lacuna in the literature by bringing together various texts relating to architecture by the multi-faceted Xenakis, who worked with Le Corbusier for 12 years.
