Certainement un talent unique, n'est-ce pas? Sa musique m'inspire dans des nouvelles directions de la nourriture cerebrale. Excusez-moi, je suis de Alabama, plus specifiquement de Birmingham ou la musique existentialiste et/ou aleatoire ne trouve aucune place. Nous mangeons de l'herbe cuit et buvons notre propre urine. Cela nous dans des forces quasi-intellectuelles qui nous sert a cacher notre ignorance. Vive Xenakis!
.Lichens blew me away.This is so early and like his early work totally original.Ligeti,Penderecky aside-Xenakis has always been a new language. Whats to understand.Texture,movementstrange pitches and rhythms.Use your imagination it can be interpreted lotsa ways.Can u understand Brahms ?no u just know the harmonic language so u think he says yes or no here and there or remember or Im lonely or this hurts but i think there is more to brahms than that.Look at Schonberg a Brahmsian language too!
Xenakis started out as an architect, he was Le Corbusier's assistant with the Phillips Pavillion. Varèse was the composer of the music played (Poème Electronique) and he was assisted by Dick Raaymakers who worked at Phillips Natlab.
wonderful wonderful wonderful music. Do not try and understand this music! Just listen! No bias, no bias no bias! It's another portal into the musicworld, of so much more interest then others! Listen like an alien, and have imagination!
@20echris Try to think about what he was trying to interpret while composing this. Each sound is an effect that is supposed to make you think of something in particular; a bird, an engine, distress, confusion....
@20echris Listen to it over and over again, but don't just sit back, relax, and listen with your ears. This type of composition demands the most out of you, even as a listener. This is music of the mind. As your listening, literally think of the composition, and piece together what it means, the spatialness, the unrest, the unexpectedness, there is something going on here that the composer was trying to say, find it or look it up on google :)
@20echris because it's most likely very different from what you've previously considered music... listen to more of it. :) and remember that you don't need to understand it to enjoy it.
@flammesombres There is no possibility that sound can be "understood". Music is nothing but mechanical waves - only if you are physician you can handle waves. And only on mathematical level. :-)
Certainement un talent unique, n'est-ce pas? Sa musique m'inspire dans des nouvelles directions de la nourriture cerebrale. Excusez-moi, je suis de Alabama, plus specifiquement de Birmingham ou la musique existentialiste et/ou aleatoire ne trouve aucune place. Nous mangeons de l'herbe cuit et buvons notre propre urine. Cela nous dans des forces quasi-intellectuelles qui nous sert a cacher notre ignorance. Vive Xenakis!
JohnRSamples 4 days ago
.Lichens blew me away.This is so early and like his early work totally original.Ligeti,Penderecky aside-Xenakis has always been a new language. Whats to understand.Texture,movementstrange pitches and rhythms.Use your imagination it can be interpreted lotsa ways.Can u understand Brahms ?no u just know the harmonic language so u think he says yes or no here and there or remember or Im lonely or this hurts but i think there is more to brahms than that.Look at Schonberg a Brahmsian language too!
MrInterestingthings 2 weeks ago
I have one word for this.....BRILLIANT
jmbs0088 1 month ago
@dothque
Xenakis started out as an architect, he was Le Corbusier's assistant with the Phillips Pavillion. Varèse was the composer of the music played (Poème Electronique) and he was assisted by Dick Raaymakers who worked at Phillips Natlab.
dinck 2 months ago
Is something wrong with my mind when Xenakis, Stockhausen, Boulez, Crumb, Saariaho, and Penderecki are my favorite composers?
tolkienfan51 4 months ago
wonderful wonderful wonderful music. Do not try and understand this music! Just listen! No bias, no bias no bias! It's another portal into the musicworld, of so much more interest then others! Listen like an alien, and have imagination!
wagneristhebest 4 months ago
@20echris Try to think about what he was trying to interpret while composing this. Each sound is an effect that is supposed to make you think of something in particular; a bird, an engine, distress, confusion....
lennic95 5 months ago
Late at night, put out all lights and draw the curtains. Listen to this high volume. I guarantee you'll have nightmares :D
pathduck 6 months ago
I liked the part when the screen was black.
FluffyBunniesOnFire 6 months ago
@20echris Listen to it over and over again, but don't just sit back, relax, and listen with your ears. This type of composition demands the most out of you, even as a listener. This is music of the mind. As your listening, literally think of the composition, and piece together what it means, the spatialness, the unrest, the unexpectedness, there is something going on here that the composer was trying to say, find it or look it up on google :)
badazzpresidents23 6 months ago
What is this image?
quietchannel 6 months ago
@quietchannel one of Xenakis' designs for a building
flammesombres 6 months ago
the structur in the begining of this video is the Phillips Pavilion.
which has been built in Brussel and xenakis's pieces were played inside.
but that is just a part of the whole idea behind this project.
dothque 4 months ago
Sofa king good.
xxxdementia 6 months ago
@20echris because it's most likely very different from what you've previously considered music... listen to more of it. :) and remember that you don't need to understand it to enjoy it.
flammesombres 6 months ago 9
@flammesombres What a cheerfully open way of inviting people to the world of Xenakis. Great job.
PaparoniFilms 4 months ago
@flammesombres There is no possibility that sound can be "understood". Music is nothing but mechanical waves - only if you are physician you can handle waves. And only on mathematical level. :-)
Xenakis is always great.
BodyHeaven 1 month ago
Varese is far superior to Xenakis.
Easleytee 7 months ago
@Easleytee
haha, very funny
flammesombres 7 months ago 10
@Easleytee :P
badazzpresidents23 6 months ago
I couldn't find it on Deezer ! Shame on them and thanks for uploading
nathael25 9 months ago
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zsinet3 10 months ago
8000+ views in a year. Not bad for such "difficult" music!
Thanks for uploading...
Rolf
otterhouse 11 months ago 7
New to xenakis,having discovered his work tonight-love this and mycenae-alpha,disturbing scary and beautiful at the same time.
newtondecoy 1 year ago 3
I think they should have a Xenakis night on X-Factor
fishybishbash 1 year ago 27
8:31 it sounds a little like an organ! Xenakis is a pure genius!
Norgelt 1 year ago