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Article: The writings of Iannis Xenakis (starting with Formalized Music).
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- Perspectives of New Music
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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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 (1) For the moment, over 160 articles have been identified, 28 of which are still unpublished.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 number is still growing as his personal archives, recently deposited at the Biblioteque nationale de France, are sorted.
Although Xenakis was a man of few words in conversation, he obviously felt the inner necessity to write, to commit to paper not only his theoretical discoveries, but also his artistic and philosophical questionings as well as, occasionally, his concerns as a ...