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urn:uuid:049c7cf2-2a0c-4c27-9129-84f132fd7cee 03 15 9781805112273 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Meta-Xenakis New Perspectives on Iannis Xenakis’s Life, Work, and Legacies 1 A01 Sharon Kanach The American musician Sharon Kanach first went to France to study with Nadia Boulanger. Very quickly however, in 1978, her path crossed that of Iannis Xenakis, with whom she studied and collaborated closely, especially on his writings (Arts/Sciences: Alloys; Formalized Music; Music and Architecture…). With the publisher Pendragon Press (recently closed) she was the editor of the Xenakis Series where a total of six books were produced. In 2009, she founded the Xenakis Project of the Americas under the auspices of the Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the Graduate Center of City University of New York and is currently Co-president of the Centre Iannis Xenakis (CIX) based at the Université de Rouen Normandie (France), under the auspices of the research lab Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire (GRHis). Between 2013–23, she was on the Editorial Committee of Circuit, musiques contemporaines. In 2022, under her directorship, the CIX initiated the Meta-Xenakis Consortium to celebrate the centenary of Xenakis’s birth. Kanach has been promoted to “Chevalière de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture. 2 B01 Peter Nelson The British composer and music scholar Peter Nelson is Professor Emeritus of Music and Technology at the University of Edinburgh, where he established the electronic and computer music studios and led a research group in music and artificial intelligence. He met Iannis Xenakis in 1986 and became an associate of Xenakis’s computer music studio Les Ateliers UPIC between 1987 and 1991, touring and teaching with the Atelier and composing a number of works for UPIC. He has published book chapters and articles on a number of topics including music and technology, and rhythm. Between 1992 and 2022 he was Editor of the international journal Contemporary Music Review, published by Routledge. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2024. 01 eng 00 834 03 12 AVGC6 23 Iannis Xenakis 04 ML410.X45 10 MUS050000 23 Music 10 ARC006000 12 AVH 23 Biography 23 music composition 23 aesthetics 10 ART015110 12 AVGW 23 architecture 10 PHI001000 10 PER000000 23 twentieth century’s European culture 10 MUS020000 01 06 03 00 Meta-Xenakis offers readers a comprehensive collection of insights into the history, works and legacy of Iannis Xenakis, one of the twentieth century’s most significant creative figures. It presents a transcontinental engagement with his life and output, focusing as much on the impact of the questions he posed as on the accomplishments of his body of work. This volume evolved out of the multi-modal, international Meta-Xenakis Consortium’s artistic and scholarly events commemorating his centenary. Informative and comprehensive, contributions span subjects including music composition, creative pedagogy, aesthetics, game theory, architecture, and the social and political contexts in which Xenakis operated. The book is organized in eight sections, centered on different facets of Xenakis’s work and reception. It includes a digital archive of audio and visual media from the events staged throughout 2022, as well as computer software.Bringing into conversation the diverse perspectives and insights of researchers, musicians and artists, this volume serves as a foundational resource for future research on the life and work of Xenakis. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners across a range of disciplines including music, architecture, cybernetics and computation, and the digital arts. 04 00 Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface The Meta-Xenakis Team Leaders Introduction: Meta-Xenakis Prolegomenon: Meta-materiality in the Thought and Creative Activity of Iannis Xenakis XENAKIS BEFORE XENAKIS 1. Iannis Xenakis’s Theater Studies: An Unknown Aspect of the Composer’s Life during the Occupation 2. Iannis Xenakis through his Letters at the KSYME Archive XENAKIS WITHOUT BORDERS 3. Iannis Xenakis in Berlin 4. Debating the Noise: The Reception of Iannis Xenakis’s Music in Serbia as a Part of the SFRY (1960–90) 5. Iannis Xenakis in Japan: Productive Performances and Reception of Texts NEW CONTEXTS FOR UNDERSTANDING XENAKIS 6. Iannis Xenakis’s Free Stochastic Music Program as an Aid to Analysis 7. Continuum versus Disruptum: A Poetic-philosophical Approach to the Instrumental and Vocal Works of Iannis Xenakis 8. Iannis Xenakis’s Materialism: On the Dialectic of Real-time Computation 9. Iannis Xenakis’s Philosophy of Music, Stochastics, and the Postmodern Sublime 10. Jean-Étienne Marie and Iannis Xenakis: The Vision of an Artistic Engineer and a Theorist of Microtonal Music 11. On the Link between the Exact Sciences and Music in Iannis Xenakis’s Creative Work 12. Activating Sound Phenomena in the Music of Iannis Xenakis 13. Spatial Movement of Sound Vectors NEW PERSPECTIVES ON XENAKIS’S WORKS 14. The CIX Archives: Revalorizations and Hidden Treasures 15. Game Theory and Formal Structure in Iannis Xenakis’s Duel (1959) 16. A Myth of Recurrence in Iannis Xenakis’s La Légende d’Eer 17. Iannis Xenakis’s Hibiki Hana Ma and the Japanese Team for Tekkhokan (Steel Pavilion) at Expo ’70, Osaka 18. Iannis Xenakis’s Pithoprakta: A Phenomenological Approach 19. Performing Iannis Xenakis’s Polyrhythms: A Perception-informed Approach to Renotation 20. An Approach to the Epistemic Potential of the UPIC XENAKIS AND ARCHITECTURE 21. Seeing Music and Listening to Architecture: Iannis Xenakis and La Philharmonie de Paris 22. Iannis Xenakis/Le Corbusier:A Confrontation en sol dur 23. Polytropos: Iannis Xenakis, Engineer in Music and Architecture LIVING TESTIMONY 24. Liberated Music. A Loving Testimony 25. La Légende de Xenakis: Meta Xenakis 26. Creating and Learning with UPIC 27. Music, Science, Architecture: Two Conversations with Iannis Xenakis 28. The Pythagorean Wall: A Visual and Auditory Drama 29. Iannis Xenakis, Inventor of Music—Composer, Engineer, and Architect: The Voice of the “Inexpressible” and of “Revelation” 30. The UPIC System of Iannis Xenakis: Autoethnography as Rapprochement META-XENAKIS (OR WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?) 31. UPISketch: New Perspectives 32. Somax2 and Reinterpreting Iannis Xenakis 33. Xenos: A Xenharmonic Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis Virtual Instrument 34. Light Tectonics: The New Aesthetics in Iannis Xenakis’s Work 35. Phoenix-Albatross: An Approach to Iannis Xenakis’s Work on Game Theory through Live Coding and Networked Dance 36. Mapping the Influence: Iannis Xenakis’s GENDYN Algorithms as a Means for Creative Explorations in Live Improvised Feedback Music 37. Notes on A Catalog of Difference 38. The Algorithmic Music of Iannis Xenakis—What’s Next? 39. The Process of Creating a Computational System: A Collective Audiovisual Composition 40. The Xenakis Networked Performance Marathon 2022: An Experiment in Networked Performance Collaboration Inspired by Iannis Xenakis META-XENAKIS: SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES 41. The Xenakis Networked Performance Marathon 2022 (Sustainable Resources) 42. Japanese Society for Electronic Music (JSEM) Concert—A Tribute Celebrating Iannis Xenakis’s Centennial 43. Meta-Xenakis Concert at Suntory Hall, Tokyo 44. The Establishment of the CMRC—KSYME in Athens: A Virtual Exhibit 45. In Memoriam, Joel Chadabe 46. A New Documentary: Iannis Xenakis: Music of the Universe 47. Reportage of a UPISketch Workshop in Japan 48. Polytope XXI: A Tribute to Iannis Xenakis 49. An Architecture of Alchemy: A Cinematic Painting 50. The Iranian Context of Iannis Xenakis’s Persepolis 51. Iannis Xenakis, 1922–2001 Appendix List of Illustrations Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20241009 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805112242 06 15 9781805112259 06 15 9781805112266 06 15 9781805112297 06 15 9781805112273 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 02 5.99 GBP WORLD