Gendy3

Durée 19’24” Date de composition 1991 Effectif Musique de synthèse stochastique de sons à l’ordinateur réalisée au CEMAMu, Paris Création Le 17.11.1991, Metz, Rencontres Internationales de Musique Contemporaine

Krinoïdi

Durée 15′ Date de composition 1991 Édition Salabert, EAS 19018 Effectif Pour 71 musiciens :3.3.3.3-3.3.3.0, crd (14.12.10.8.6) Création Mai 1992, Parma, Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Emilia-Romagna “Arturo Toscanini” Parma, Ramon Encinar (dir)

Roaï

Durée 17′ Date de composition 1991 Édition Salabert, EAS 19026 Effectif Pour 90 musiciens :4.4.4.4-4.4.4.1, pno, crd (16.14.12.10.8) Création Le 24.03.1992, Berlin, Festkonzert zum 40 jährigen Jubiläum der Association Européenne des Festivals de Musique, Radio Symphonie Orchester, Olaf Henzold (dir)

Troorkh

Durée 17′ Date de composition 1991 Édition Salabert, EAS 19015 Effectif Pour trombone et 89 musiciens :4.4.4.4-4.4.4.1, crd (16.14.12.10.8) Création Le 26.03.1993, Stockholm, Berwald Hall, Christian Lindberg (trb), Swedish Radio Orchestra, Esa Pekka Salonen (dir)

La déesse Athéna

Textes d’Eschyle, Scène de l’Oresteïa Durée 9′ Date de composition 1992 Édition Salabert, EAS 19035 Effectif Pour Baryton soli et 11 musiciens :1(pic).1.2(clpic, clCB).1(cbn)-1.1(trppic sib).1.1, perc, vlc Création Le 3.05.1992, Athènes, Spyros Sakkas, Ensemble de la Radiotélévision d’Athènes, Michel Tabachnik (dir)

Olympic Stadium, Bagdad

The design of the major sports complex on the banks of the Tigris River was part of the development and modernization plan for the city of Baghdad. Le Corbusier entrusted the project to Xenakis, who, enjoying total freedom in terms of the program, had a broad vision: a stadium for 50,000 people, a gymnasium with […]

Arts and Youth Centre in Firminy

This cultural complex, part of a vast operation of reconstruction and urban development in Firminy, was intended to link the old town and the new districts of Firminy-Vert. Le Corbusier proposed to merge the sports facilities and the Maison de la Culture by organizing the spaces in a “mirror” fashion. Xenakis, being the project manager […]

Couvent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette

The Dominican Convent in L’Arbresle, near Lyon, entrusted to Le Corbusier in 1953, is part of a global attempt to renew the vocabulary of sacred architecture. For the first time since he joined the studio, Xenakis assumed full responsibility for the architecture and became head of the project. Although the general form comes from the […]

Chandigarh

The vast project in the Punjabi capital was entrusted to Le Corbusier in the early 1950s, when the latter’s fame was at its peak. In this work done with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret (who directs the site in Chandigarh), Le Corbusier puts his signature on the design and construction of the capitol palaces that include: […]

Unité d’Habitation in Rezé-les-Nantes

Financed by the Cooperative La Maison Familiale, the project aims to provide the city with a new building composed of collective housing. This project pushes the standardization and the level of prefabrication of the components to their maximum. The structure includes 294 apartments (of 7 different types), with no collective facilities, except for the kindergarten […]