Recently added articles from Perspectives of New Music:
Xenakis: ... tireless renewal at every instant, at every death ...(Iannia Xenakis)(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2003; ... XENAKIS WAS A MAN of keen intellect, with a sardonic, bird-of-prey character. He was by turns imperious or vulnerable, impish or implacably unforgiving, which is to say that--as is true of any complex being--he both represented himself and was represented by others in disconcertingly ...
Toward an interpretation of Xenakis's Nomos alpha.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2003; ... 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. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks to draw towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness ...
Xenakis in miniature: style and structure in a r. (Hommage a Ravel) for piano (1987).
Jan 01, 2003; ... INTRODUCTION BETWEEN THE EARLY 1970s and the late 1990s Iannis Xenakis composed several short works for solo instruments and for small ensembles. Because of their limited duration and minimal instrumentation, these works may be thought of as miniatures in comparison to his ...
The writings of Iannis Xenakis (starting with Formalized Music).
Jan 01, 2003; ... XENAKIS'S OUTPUT was most prolific, not only of musical works but also of prose. His bibliography is impressive, both in relation to his contemporaries and from an historical perspective. (1) For the moment, over 160 articles have been identified, 28 of which are still unpublished. This ...
"Absolute purity projected into sound": Goeyvaerts, Heidegger and early serialism.
Jan 01, 2003; ... RESEARCH FELLOW OF THE FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH--FLANDERS (BELGIUM) 1. INTRODUCTION AT THE DARMSTADT SUMMER COURSES of 1951, Karel Goeyvaerts and Karlheinz Stockhausen played the second part of Goeyvaerts's Nr. 1, the sonata for two pianos. Immediately after the ...