Durée 3′ Date de composition 1996 Édition Salabert, EAS 19481 Effectif Pour violon et violoncelle Création Le 09.08.1996, New York, Lincoln Center Festival of Arts, Avery Fischer Hall, Edna Michell et Ole Akahoshi
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Durée 8′ 30” Date de composition 1996 Édition Salabert, EAS 19461 Effectif Pour sextuor à cordes (2vl, 2vla, 2vlc) Création Le 04.10.1996, Frankfurt am Main, Alte Oper, Arditti String Quartet, Thomas Kakuska (vla), Valentin Erben (vlc)
Durée 8′ Date de composition 1996 Édition Salabert, EAS 19480 Effectif Pour violoncelle et contrebasse Création Le 06.12.1996, Köln, WDR Konzertsaal, Festival Musik der Zeit, Rohan de Saram et Stefano Scodanibbio
Durée 8′ Date de composition 1996 Édition Salabert, EAS 19498 Effectif Pour trombone et 6 percussionnistes Création Le 10.04.1997, Birmingham, Christian Lindberg (trb), Ensemble Kroumata (Stockholm)
Durée 4′ Date de composition 1997 Édition Salabert, EAS 19547 Effectif Pour percussionniste solo et 13 instrumentistes :1.1.1.1-1.1.1.1, cordes (1.1.1.1.1) Création Le 30.11.1997, Huddersfi eld, Evelyn Glennie (perc), Festival de Musique Contemporaine, London Sinfonietta, Markus Stenz (dir)
The Dutch company Philips wanted to participate in the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels – the first after World War II – with its own temporary pavilion. It invited Le Corbusier, knowing his international reputation. Upon approaching Le Corbusier, the firm’s artistic director, Louis Kalff, realized that the architect was more interested in the audiovisual […]
Xenakis had a decisive encounter with the conductor Hermann Scherchen, following the premiere of Varèse’s Déserts in Paris in 1954. Since then, Scherchen has taken the young composer under his wing and regularly invites him to the summer academies he organizes in his experimental music center in Gravesano, Switzerland. When in 1961 he decided to […]
Françoise Choay, during the preparation of her book L’Urbanisme, Utopies et Réalités (Urbanism, Utopias and Realities), asked Xenakis (who at the time was living in Berlin as a Ford Foundation grant holder) to make a proposal for the city of the future. The composer-architect was impregnated with the urbanistic discourses of the sixties, which magnified […]
Having been condemned to death in 1947 for having deserted the national army, Xenakis is forbidden to stay in Greece. He proposes a plan conceived from the photos that F.B. Mâche provides him in 1967. He drew five independent units that communicate with each other from the outside, freely inspired by the traditional houses of […]
The last empress of Iran, Farah Diba-Pahlavi, commissioned Xenakis to build a large cultural complex (over 20,000 m2) in 1971. Several types of rooms for the visual and sound arts were planned, as well as centers for pedagogy and technological research on sound and image, playgrounds and open-air concerts, and a residence park for visiting […]