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Xenakis. The Electroacoustic music
Paris 8 University
Scientific direction Makis Solomos
The electroacoustic works of Xenakis form only about a tenth of his output, but they are very important.
Indeed, most of them – from Diamorphoses to S.709, via Concret PH, Bohor, Persepolis, Polytope de Cluny, La Légende d’Eer, Mycènes alpha, Voyage absolu des Unari vers Andromède, Gendy3…– mark out the history of electroacoustic music as so many masterpieces of originality and absolute innovation.
Moreover, Xenakis had the opportunity of working with both the techniques of musique concrète and of electronic music, thus covering both great areas of what is commonly referred to as electroacoustic music.
In addition, his polytopes, in which technology plays a major role, were pioneering achievements in the history of the multimedia arts.
Composed at key moments in his evolution, these works can also be analysed for an understanding of the various aspects of the musical, theoretical, philosophical and interdisciplinary ideas of Xenakis: investigations into noise, stochastics, granular theory, experiments with spatialisation, inter-artistic projects…
It is also crucial to emphasise the fact that these works are very closely related to his instrumental music (there are, for example, many affinities between La Légende d’Eer and the orchestral work Jonchaies).