Meta-Xenakis : New Perspectives on Iannis Xenakis's Life, Work, and Legacies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001.

Xenakis, Iannis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (836 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2024.

Summary:

Meta-Xenakis offers readers a comprehensive collection of insights into the history, works and legacy of Iannis Xenakis, one of the twentieth century's most significant creative figures. It presents a transcontinental engagement with his life and output, focusing as much on the impact of the questions he posed as on the accomplishments of his body of work. This volume evolved out of the multi-modal, international Meta-Xenakis Consortium's artistic and scholarly events commemorating his centenary. Informative and comprehensive, contributions span subjects including music composition, creative pedagogy, aesthetics, game theory, architecture, and the social and political contexts in which Xenakis operated. The book is organized in eight sections, centered on different facets of Xenakis's work and reception. It includes a digital archive of audio and visual media from the events staged throughout 2022, as well as computer software. Bringing into conversation the diverse perspectives and insights of researchers, musicians and artists, this volume serves as a foundational resource for future research on the life and work of Xenakis. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners across a range of disciplines including music, architecture, cybernetics and computation, and the digital arts.

Contents:

Intro

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Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

The Meta-Xenakis Team Leaders

Introduction: Meta-Xenakis

Peter Nelson and Sharon Kanach

Prolegomenon: Meta-materiality in the Thought and Creative Activity of Iannis Xenakis

James Harley

XENAKIS BEFORE XENAKIS

1. Iannis Xenakis's Theater Studies: An Unknown Aspect of the Composer's Life during the Occupation

Nikos Ioakeim

2. Iannis Xenakis through his Letters at the KSYME Archive

Stella Kourmpana

XENAKIS WITHOUT BORDERS

3. Iannis Xenakis in Berlin

Marko Slavíček

4. Debating the Noise: The Reception of Iannis Xenakis's Music in Serbia as a Part of the SFRY (1960-90)

Jelena Janković-Beguš

5. Iannis Xenakis in Japan: Productive Performances and Reception of Texts

Mikako Mizuno

NEW CONTEXTS FOR UNDERSTANDING XENAKIS

6. Iannis Xenakis's Free Stochastic Music Program as an Aid to Analysis

Ronald Squibbs

7. Continuum versus Disruptum: A Poetic-philosophical Approach to the Instrumental and Vocal Works of Iannis Xenakis

Pierre Albert Castanet (translated by Sharon Kanach)

8. Iannis Xenakis's Materialism: On the Dialectic of Real-time Computation

Ramón del Buey Cañas and Oswaldo Emiddio Vasquez Hadjilyra

9. Iannis Xenakis's Philosophy of Music, Stochastics, and the Postmodern Sublime

Nathan Friedman

10. Jean-Étienne Marie and Iannis Xenakis: The Vision of an Artistic Engineer and a Theorist of Microtonal Music

Judith Romero Porras

11. On the Link between the Exact Sciences and Music in Iannis Xenakis's Creative Work

Pablo Araya

12. Activating Sound Phenomena in the Music of Iannis Xenakis

Mauricio García de la Torre.

13. Spatial Movement of Sound Vectors

Ambrosio Salvador Rodríguez Lara

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON XENAKIS'S WORKS

14. The CIX Archives: Revalorizations and Hidden Treasures

Cyrille Delhaye

15. Game Theory and Formal Structure in Iannis Xenakis's Duel (1959)

Mikhail Malt and Benny Sluchin

16. A Myth of Recurrence in Iannis Xenakis's La Légende d'Eer

Anton Vishio

17. Iannis Xenakis's Hibiki Hana Ma and the Japanese Team for Tekkhokan (Steel Pavilion) at Expo '70, Osaka

18. Iannis Xenakis's Pithoprakta: A Phenomenological Approach

Erik Christensen and Lise C. Bjerno

19. Performing Iannis Xenakis's Polyrhythms: A Perception-informed Approach to Renotation

Imri Talgam

20. An Approach to the Epistemic Potential of the UPIC

Mauricio Arturo Meza Ruiz

XENAKIS AND ARCHITECTURE

21. Seeing Music and Listening to Architecture: Iannis Xenakis and La Philharmonie de Paris

Brigitte Métra

22. Iannis Xenakis/Le Corbusier: A Confrontation en sol dur

Guy Pimienta (translated by Sharon Kanach)

23. Polytropos: Iannis Xenakis, Engineer in Music and Architecture

Panayotis Tournikiotis

LIVING TESTIMONY

24. Liberated Music. A Loving Testimony

Nikos Kornilios

25. La Légende de Xenakis: Meta Xenakis

Curtis Roads

26. Creating and Learning with UPIC

Takehito Shimazu

27. Music, Science, Architecture: Two Conversations with Iannis Xenakis

Julio Estrada

28. The Pythagorean Wall: A Visual and Auditory Drama

29. Iannis Xenakis, Inventor of Music-Composer, Engineer, and Architect: The Voice of the "Inexpressible" and of "Revelation"

Cândido Lima

30. The UPIC System of Iannis Xenakis: Autoethnography as Rapprochement

Peter Nelson

META-XENAKIS (OR WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?)

31. UPISketch: New Perspectives

Rodolphe Bourotte.

32. Somax2 and Reinterpreting Iannis Xenakis

33. Xenos: A Xenharmonic Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis Virtual Instrument

Raphael Radna

34. Light Tectonics: The New Aesthetics in Iannis Xenakis's Work

Yin Yu and Conrad Harris

35. Phoenix-Albatross: An Approach to Iannis Xenakis's Work on Game Theory through Live Coding and Networked Dance

Iannis Zannos and Takumi Ikeda

36. Mapping the Influence: Iannis Xenakis's GENDYN Algorithms as a Means for Creative Explorations in Live Improvised Feedback Music

Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris

37. Notes on A Catalog of Difference

Andrew Lucia

38. The Algorithmic Music of Iannis Xenakis-What's Next?

Bill Manaris

39. The Process of Creating a Computational System: A Collective Audiovisual Composition

Hugo Solís, Mizky Bernal, Diego Jiménez, Guillermo Leonardini, and Eunice Pérez

40. The Xenakis Networked Performance Marathon 2022: An Experiment in Networked Performance Collaboration Inspired by Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Zannos, Martin Carlé, Vasilis Agiomyrgianakis, Takumi Ikeda, and Hanako Atake

META-XENAKIS: SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES

41. The Xenakis Networked Performance Marathon 2022 (Sustainable Resources)

42. Japanese Society for Electronic Music (JSEM) Concert-A Tribute Celebrating Iannis Xenakis's Centennial

43. Meta-Xenakis Concert at Suntory Hall, Tokyo

Kuniko Kato

44. The Establishment of the CMRC-KSYME in Athens: A Virtual Exhibit

Nickos Harizanos, Katerina Tsioukra, and Dana Papachristou

45. In Memoriam, Joel Chadabe

Sharon Kanach

46. A New Documentary: Iannis Xenakis: Music of the Universe

Apostolos Loufopoulos, Renata Dalianoudi, Iakovos Panagopoulos, and Hari Marini.

47. Reportage of a UPISketch Workshop in Japan

Yoshihisa Suzuki

48. Polytope XXI: A Tribute to Iannis Xenakis

Fabrice Marandola, Myriam Boucher, and Dominic Thibault

49. An Architecture of Alchemy: A Cinematic Painting

David J. Lieberman

50. The Iranian Context of Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis

Aram Yardumian

51. Iannis Xenakis, 1922-2001

Benny Sluchin

Appendix

List of Illustrations

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-80511-225-2

1-80511-226-0

OCLC:

1460256848