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Makis Solomos Dans ses implémentations compositionnelles de modèles théoriques, Xenakis introduit de nombreux « décalages » en « intervenant » constamment. Tous les spécialistes de sa musique, lorsqu’ils comparent les modèles théoriques aux partitions, ont noté de nombreux « écarts » entre les données prescrites par les premiers et les données que l’on trouve dans les secondes. En d’autres termes, les […]

Makis Solomos translation from the French: Jennifer Higgins When Xenakis creates compositional implementations of theoretical models, he frequently “intervenes” and introduces many “discrepancies.” All Xenakis specialists, when comparing the theoretical models with the scores, have noted that there are important “gaps” between the data predicted by the former and the data found in the latter. […]

Agostino Di Scipio – Traduction Pierre Carré Dans le jargon de la musique électronique et informatique, la synthèse granulaire désigne une vaste gamme de techniques de synthèse et de traitement du son partageant un postulat de base commun : en principe, tout son peut être modélisé par la juxtaposition et l’empilement de grandes quantités de […]

Benoît Gibson Xenakis refers to group theory mainly in two different contexts. On the one hand, to demonstrate the ordered structure of sound characteristics—this allows him to establish a correspondence between numbers and pitch; on the other hand, to explore the symmetries proper to the structures of finite groups. Xenakis utilizes systems of group symmetries […]

Dimitris Exarchos & Peter Hoffmann Metamusic, a term coined by Iannis Xenakis, is the idea of a music of a higher order which would contain any existing music of any tradition as a special case. In other words, Xenakis’s postulated metamusic is universal in the sense that it encompasses all musics of all time and […]

Dimitris Exarchos In the early 1960s Xenakis developed a compositional theory based on the observation that certain musical structures are independent of time. His approach to this matter was, among others, a critique of those traditional conceptions that emphasize the temporal dimension of music. He insisted that all music has an aspect outside of time […]

Pierre Carré Xenakis a regroupé sous le terme polytopes un ensemble de différents spectacles ayant pour point commun de mêler musique, lumière et architecture dans une expérience sensorielle totale : les Polytopes de Montréal, Persepolis, Cluny, Mycènes, et le Diatope. Bien qu’ils partagent le même nom, ces spectacles produced between 1967 à 1978 prennent des formes […]

James Harley In mathematics, a random walk is a process that describes a path that consists of a succession of random steps on some mathematical space (e.g., 2-dimensional space: amplitude-time, or pitch-time). It was first introduced by Karl Pearson in 1905. An elementary example of a random walk is on the integer number line which […]