| Description |
xlii, 443 pages : illustration ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Iannis Xenakis series ; No. 4
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Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001.
Iannis Xenakis series ; no. 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: A conversation about music between Iannis Xenakis and David Rosenboom -- Looking at Xenakis looking at sound / Carey Lovelace -- "Tradition is the originality of the past" (Memories of the Xenakis @ UCSD Festival) / Karen Reynolds and Roger Reynolds -- Iannis Xenakis' contribution to 20th century atonal harmony and to the history of equal temperament (The Aristoxenean sieve theory and the Ptolemaic alternative) / Wolfgang von Schmeinitz -- Iannis Xenakis and algorithmic composition: precursors, co-cursors, post-cursors / Robert Rowe -- Complexity in the electronic music of Iannis Xenakis / Joel Chadabe -- Xenakis' æsthetic project: the paradoxes of a formalist intuition / Jimmie Leblanc -- The cosmic alloy: Xenakis as Platonic demiurge / Eric Lewis -- Xenakis: the first composer of biopolitics? / Brian Kane -- The politics of totality: Iannis Xenakis' Polytope de Mycènes / Olga Touloumi -- Mathematics and design in the music of Iannis Xenakis / Robert Wannamaker -- Temporal modes of architectural formation / Joseph Clarke -- Varieties of transformation in Xenakis' Metastaseis / Ronald Squibbs -- Clouds and arborescences in Mycenae alpha and the Polytope de Mycènes / Benjamin R. Levy -- Of paradigms and drums: analyzing and performing Peaux from Pléïades / Fabrice Marandola -- Graphic conception of musical structure and sonority in Jonchaies by Iannis Xenakis / James Harley -- Rebonds: thoughts on structure and performance / Ben Duinker -- Coherence and incoherence in Xenakis' Embellie / Robert Hasegawa -- Dead or alive. Aspects concerning the performance and interpretation of Xenakis' polytopes today / Daniel Teige -- Five points, New York / Carl Skelton -- The performity of space - architecture as the production of sound and light / David Lieberman -- Spatial sieves / Athanassios Economou and Thomas Grasl -- Kenaxis - inspired by the hand of Xenakis / Stefan Smulovitz -- Realtime stochastic decision making for music composition and improvisation / Christopher Dobrian -- Micro-metric rhythms and noises: emanations from the stochastic cloud / Arthur Kampela -- Designing and deploying non-octave-repeating scales with the Xenakis sieve / Christopher Ariza -- Grains, forms, and formalization / Curtis Roads -- n-polytope (after Xenakis) / Chris Salter. |
| Subject |
Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Author |
Kanach, Sharon E.
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| ISBN |
9781576472385 alkaline paper |
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1576472388 alkaline paper |
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