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For the inauguration of the Georges Pompidou Center in 1978, its president Robert Bordaz commissioned Xenakis to create a new Polytope. The ambitions of the composer are huge: he wants to link the monuments of Paris and the new center by an immense network of lasers by diffusing music by the warning sirens of the […]

Xenakis has always been fascinated by pre-Hispanic culture, such as the Incas and Aztecs. The opportunity to work on a project in Latin America arose during his conference at the National University of Mexico in 1978. Listening to the music of the last two Polytopes (Mycènes Alpha and La Légende d’Eer) that Xenakis played during […]

The last proposal for a new Polytope in Athens will symbolically close this great creative journey. In 1984, at the initiative of the Greek Minister of Culture Melina Merkouri, the member states of the European Union adopted the idea of “Cultural Capital of Europe” and the first edition took place in Athens the following year. […]

Reproduction of an unpublished text by Xenakis, translated: GLOBAL POLYTOPE (intercontinental network of light and sound actions) It is time today to launch artistic bridges over the oceans between continents, between countries. Adhering to military pacts or commercial conventions does not directly concern the people who are dragged along by often monstrous determinisms. On the […]

Reproduction of an unpublished text, translated: To be sensitive to the luminous phenomena, mainly natural: lightning, clouds, fires, sparkling sea, sky, volcanoes, … To be much less sensitive to the luminous games of the films even abstract, to the decorations of theater, of opera. To prefer natural spectacles outside of man. To prefer the vertigo […]