Tribute to Xenakis: Concert in Bâle on 12th April

The La Hochschule für Musik FHNW in Bâle will host a concert on 12th April at 8 pm. The following œuvres will be played: Persephassa (1969), Pléïades (1978), Okho (1989), Zythos (1997). Xenakis : viele Schlagzeugklänge zu seinem hundertsten Geburtstag Concept and direction: Christian Dierstein and Ronan Gil de MoraisStudents of Hochschule für Musik FHNWTrombone: Adrián Albaladejo Díaz The concert will be […]

8-9-10 April: Concert at Hamburg: Postbank Percussion Project

Text from the organization: Percussion, dance and experimental installations – an experience for ear and eye, unique and extraordinary. Persephassa, Psappha, Rebond A and B Compositions for percussion instruments, Iannis Xenakis Dates: April 8th | 7 pm April 9th | 7 pm April 10th | 6 pm Location: Former Postbank building, Überseering 26, 22297 Hamburg […]

1st April in The Hague: Orient-Occident played in acousmatic

31 MARCH – 1 APRIL 2022: Treasures from the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale, GRM, Luigi Nono, and Sonology Archives. This two-dat programme are organised in collaboration with the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale in Padova, the Archivio Luigi Nono in Venice and the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. It consists of acousmatic (versions of) works by Henk Badings, Beatriz Ferreyra, Luigo Nono, Teresa Rampazzi, Jean-Claude Risset and Iannis Xenakis, and a compilation of […]

1er avril à La Haye : Orient-Occident diffusé en spatialisation sonore au Conservatoriumzaal Amare

Dans le cadre d’une série de trois concerts de sonologie, ayant lieu du 30 mars au 1er avril 2022, différents acteurs participeront à un soirée de spatialisation sonore à 360 degrés le 1er avril :Le Centro di Sonologia Computazionale de Padova, l’Archivio Luigi Nono de Veniseet l’Ina Groupe de Recherches Musicales. Cette spatialisation sonore présentera des œuvres de Henk Badings, Beatriz […]

Antikhthon by Xenakis and Bach played at the Orchestre National de Lyon on March 26, 2022

Text by the National Orchestra of Lyon: “Bach is placed as the supreme reference in this concert that blurs the cards: the violin becomes a keyboard, the keyboard becomes an orchestra, the audience invades the orchestra, and the boundaries are abolished between music, mathematics and architecture, for unprecedented sensory experiences.” In addition to compositions by […]

From 17th to 20th March 2022 : Xenakis concerts at Cité de la Musique, Paris

March 2022 : « Week-end Iannis Xenakis » Thursday 17th March 2022: –  8:30 pm : Récital, pianist Stéphanos Thomopoulos : Erma/ Evrialy Friday 18 March 2022: –  7 pm : Talk with Mâkhi Xenakis –  8:30 pm : Concert from l’ensemble intercontemporain : Nomos Gamma/ Terretektorh Saturday 19th March 2022: –  3 pm : Concert « Chœur d’orgue » with […]

24-27th February, 2022 : three Xenakis concerts in Japan by Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Three concerts in Tokyo where the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra will play. Three days, three different places in the city but the same œuvre of Xenakis : “Keqrops“- Κεqροψ (Κέκρωψ) for piano and orchestra (1986). Conductor: Michiyoshi InouePiano: Hiroaki Ooi The music of Edward Elgar et Shostakovich will be played as well. 24th, February : at Tokyo Opera City […]

Februray 10th 2022 : Exhibition “Révolutions Xenakis” at Philharmonie in Paris

The exhibition, which is intended for a wide audience and not only for specialists in contemporary music, aims to put Xenakis’ production into perspective, in his personal history as well as in his visual, literary and musical culture. It also wishes to place the composer in his time and to give an account of the […]

International Competition of Electronic Music “Iannis Xenakis”

The fourth edition of the contest has just started! The principle: anyone wil to do so can submit an electroacoustic creation, lasting between 7 and 15 minutes. This same creation must have already been played in concert but not yet published. Entry fee: 15 euros.Up to 600 euros to be won by the winner. Deadline: […]

New edition of the biography “Un père boulversant” by Mâkhi Xenakis

“I would like to share this extraordinary journey that I was able to experience both in time and in his thought, thanks to the reading of his manuscripts that reveal how in a few years he managed to control the chaos of his emotions through the elaboration of a new music and architecture.” Mâkhi Xenakis […]