To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of pure logic but also the "logic" of emotions and intuition. My musical techniques, although often rigorous in their internal structure, leave many openings through which the most complex and mysterious factors of the intelligence may penetrate.
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary. The s… - Iannis Xenakis
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary. The s…
- Iannis Xenakis
Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men c… - Iannis Xenakis
Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men c…
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression.… - Iannis Xenakis
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression.…
To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinati… - Iannis Xenakis
To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinati…
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated … - Iannis Xenakis
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated …
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular sym… - Iannis Xenakis
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular sym…
Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear? - Iannis Xenakis
Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?
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