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Article: Iannis Xenakis: Regard, disregard; liberation.
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- Perspectives of New Music
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- January 1, 2001
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INDULGE MY REMINISCENCE: one Fall day in 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I was sipping Drambuie and doing calculus homework with the radio on. The oleaginous announcer's voice turned into--Metastasis! My head snapped up from the homework. The sounds were an entirely new musical world, totally and instantly engaging. But in fact it wasn't the sounds themselves that felt so different--the glissandi, for example. The sounds were put together with an audacious disregard for all compositional conventions--but this was not simply "bad boy" music either. What riveted my attention was the new regime of musical organization which so patently inhered, obvious on the surface ...
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Article: Música: Iannis Xenákis: 1922-2001.(compositor)(TT: Music: ...
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...In memoriam Charles Trenet (1913-2001) Tras el perodo recio, lleno de aportaciones, comprendido entre 1953 y 1964, la obra de Xenkis pareciera --por lo general-- volver sobre lo mismo, aun cuando aparezcan de pronto partituras con vitalidad nerviosa, como ST/10 (1956-62) para 10 instrumentos o la
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