"Iannis Xenakis Composer, Architect, Visionary," The Drawing Center
Fusing the ancient greek terms "poly" ("many") and "topos" ("place"), Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis coined a neologism for his set of spatial creations that mixed together sound, light, color and architecture during live performances.
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Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Greek: Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, pronounced [ˈʝanis kseˈnacis]; 29 May 1922 - 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. [1]
Le Corbusier e Iannis Xenakis Philips Pavilion Expo '58, Bruxelles
The Greek composer and architect Iannis Xenakis (1922Xenakis ( -2001 postulated after Gabor that all sound was integration of grains of elementary sonic particles of some quanta (Xenakis.
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His architectural output offers ways into his music's imaginative world. Take the Philips Pavilion that Xenakis designed for the Brussels World's Fair in 1958 and for which he and Edgard Varèse.
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Le Corbusier would take on the sole task of developing the interior of the vessel, leaving the exterior design of the pavilion to the responsibility of his protégé designer Iannis Xenakis, whom.
Iannis Xenakis, dans l’intimité d’un révolutionnaire
Xenakis was no architectural dilettante: before he became a full-time composer, he worked with Le Corbusier for a decade after his arrival in Paris from Greece in 1947. The Philips Pavilion.
Iannis Xenakis at his studio in Paris ZKM
Iannis Xenakis, (born May 29, 1922, Brăila, Romania—died February 4, 2001, Paris, France), Romanian-born French composer, architect, and mathematician who originated musique stochastique, music composed with the aid of electronic computers and based upon mathematical probability systems.
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What an entrance! To this day, the listener can imagine only too well what excitement and confusion the young composer must have caused over 60 years ago when he soared to sudden fame with a piece of music just eight minutes long in the midst of the post-war avant-garde.
Architecture Iannis Xenakis
Alessandra Capanna summarizes the life and work of Iannis Xenakis, who passed away on 4 February 2001.He was a musician, but above all he was a theorist and pure researcher who used mathematical thought as a basis for of his compositions. Because of this, his way of working more closely resembles that of a philosopher of science than that of an.
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Architecture Before pursuing a career in music, Iannis Xenakis studied architecture and worked with renowned architect Le Corbusier. His architectural background influenced his approach to composition, often employing mathematical and geometric concepts in his music.
Architecture Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001). A leading figure in twentieth century music, Xenakis was trained as a civil engineer, then became an architect and developed revolutionary designs while working with Le Corbusier..
IANNIS XENAKIS COMPOSER, ARCHITECT, VISIONARY Autre Magazine
Profile This year marks the centenary of the birth of one of the most important composers of contemporary music, Iannis Xenakis. This composer and civil engineer of Greek descent was born in 1922 in Romania, educated in Greece and died in 2001 in Paris.
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Iannis Xenakis was awarded the Kyoto Prize in 1997, considered the Nobel Prize of Music, and the Polar Prize in 1999. ABOUT THE CURATORS Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary is co-curated by Sharon Kanach and Carey Lovelace. Sharon Kanach, a Paris-based new music specialist who worked closely with Xenakis until the end
Architecture Iannis Xenakis
Abstract. The Polytope de Montréal, conceived by the architect and composer Iannis Xenakis, was the first in a series of five realized "polytopes," large-scale multi-media installations performed in Canada, France, Iran and Greece.Drawing upon recent archival and field research conducted at the Fonds Iannis Xenakis, Paris, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, this.
Pierre Boulez Iannis Xenakis Selected Piano Works by D.E. Okonsar
While the Pavilion has long been recognised as a seminal work, scholars have tended to overlook the aesthetic intentions of its chief designer, the composer Iannis Xenakis, often simplistically characterising the building as an architectural 'translation' of music.
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The quintessential example of this phenomenon is composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), whose complex ideas sprouted from a natural love of architecture and mathematics. In a tightly constructed show now at the Drawing Center curators Sharon Kanach and Carey Lovelace have created a heady glimpse of the visual side of Xenakis, the composer who.