Iannis Xenakis: XAS for Saxophone Quartet

performed by the Raschèr Sax quartet.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• iannis
• xenakis

[jneelt]

this is awesome, is it all composed, or is aeletoric

[flammesombres]

@jneelt

as far as I know, this is a highly structured piece (haven't seen the score yet, though).

[violinbird]

Sounds like a traffic jam in NYC.

[Ltlevim]

@flammesombres I just listened to it with the score, it's all composed.

[jneelt]

@dsmendesds So even though it is not completely open it is written using a process that is sort of random. Oene thought i have on multiphonics and hghest note possible techniques in music is that on saxophone they tend to vary from player to player, saxophone to saxophone, mouth piece, reed, day of the week, moon phase.........

I know that doesn't qualify as aleatoric but the quality of uncertainty in playing them and hearing them has been a main draw for me into this world

[dsmendesds]

@Ltlevim oh! thanx, man!!! ;/

[Ltlevim]

@dsmendesds Lol sorry; that was last year when I had access to my university's music library, and I am no longer at that univeristy. Sorry, you're just gonna have to look for it!

[dsmendesds]

@Ltlevim hey, man! do you have a pdf of this score? may you send it to me via email??? plssss

[dsmendesds]

@jneelt Xenakis's works are not aleatoric. the composition deals with stochastic process. it is more similar to the serialist composers (although he refused the serial thought) than aleatoric, like Cage and so many others...

[MINORSECONDXXI]

Yet another mistake with the brackets (in the comment below)! Oops! I'm rubbish at writing!

Oh, and it's TOO seriously. I should read my comments more carefully before publishing them...

[MINORSECONDXXI]

Just as I have feared... I've misspelt the word "genius"!

By the way, when I wrote my comments, they were in the top-rated comments (not because of the thumbs up, but because they were answers to violinbird's comment (or answers to the answer).

[MINORSECONDXXI]

@MINORSECONDXXI By ironic I mean that the talk about the traffic jam wasn't serious. Anyway, it is true that I'm certainly not a genious- that wasn't irony, but serious modesty.

[MINORSECONDXXI]

@MINORSECONDXXI Well, not to say that I'm particularly intelligent or anything like that... Anyway, if traffic jams sound like Iannis Xenakis' music, they sure have outsmarted me!

@violinbird Please don't take my comments to seriously, I was ironic!

[MINORSECONDXXI]

@violinbird Set theory, game theory, group theory, Booleran algebra, stochastic processes, Markov chains, statistical distribution, normal distribution, Brownian motion, minimal constraints... Those new intelligent cars are much smarter than most people! They are even smarter than me, because my knowledge of most of these concepts is close to zero!