Xenakis: "Akrata"

[frnndsnt]

O genio da pos-modernidade! Gosto da atmosfera mistica e sombria de suas musicas!

[tigerluvforev]

@johnRsamples Uhuh sure you did

[GiovanniTancrediChan]

This is why Xenakis is one of my favourite composers

[JohnRSamples]

I met Iannis briefly in Paris in 1998. I showed him my composition for piano based on the Lee-Yang zeroes of the Ising model partition function.

[sagats]

Thanks for posting always interesting music! Sometimes they're dificult to find in this "sea of darkness" named internet...

[jonahbegone]

Program notes: I have no idea of what he's saying!

I like the piece, though...

[eotto2001]

@NewMusicXX: Like your choice of "new" music. Growing up in that era there was a lot of junk as I recall. Xenakis was one of the better ones though not known in the US very well at that time. I think it was because he had a structure that one could follow viscerally and that made it too human. This piece I have wondered if it was part of what John Williams use for the film Close Encounters of a 3rd Kind.

[CoreOgg]

this piece is so wonderful.

before the end of the first half (before the ostinato stuff returns) there is this long section of sort of building sustained chords...these brass instruments are orchestrated in such an interesting way and in such strange registers that it is hard to figure out what instrument is playing.Thanks so much for posting.

[pantherius]

Is this recording still available? And who performed it?

[NewMusicXX]

The CD is entitled "Xenakis: Ensemble Music 2". It's on the Mode label, Mode 56. The performance is by the ST-X Ensemble.

[pantherius]

Thanks.