Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis is a unique figure in contemporary music, not only for the iconoclastic nature of his music but also for the scientific attitude he brought to his work.

Vitro Nasu » 2007 » May 2007

Iannis Xenakis is a unique figure in contemporary music, not only for the iconoclastic nature of his music but also for the scientific attitude he brought to his work.

Iannis Xenakis 2007

5 Blisters (Bach Organ piece?) 6 Listen to “A Room” for Piano by John Cage, Xenakis is here and Villa-Lobos is here.

Just Listed 2006

5 Blisters (Bach Organ piece?) 6 Listen to “A Room” for Piano by John Cage, Xenakis is here and Villa-Lobos is here.

Vitro Nasu » 2006 » October 2006

The most substantial of the other pieces here is Epicycles for cello and 12 instruments, an example of later Xenakis, which is far less visceral in its impact and almost archaic in its chant-like melodic writing.

Xenakis: Complete Works for Cello – review 2012

Her fine recordings of the Schumann violin sonatas with Dénes Várjon were followed by an outstanding collection that took in Schoenberg, Zimmermann, Feldman and Xenakis.

Schubert: Fantasy in C; Sonata in A, etc – review 2012

His music recalls and reconsiders the past, but breaks free, so that filtered, fragmented shards of the musical past – Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mahler, Strauss, Xenakis, Stockhausen – drift by at a surreal distance and each piece he writes strives to reinvent the very idea of music and locate unheard-of sounds.

Paul Morley on music Paul Morley 2010

Xenakis composed just two pieces for solo cello, both fiercely remarkable in their own right.

Xenakis: Complete Works for Cello – review 2012

Artists who matured in the middle years of the last century, such as Nassos Daphnis, Stephen Antonakos, Constantin Xenakis, and Lucas Samaras, all made their reputations abroad.

Navigating Through a Crisis Emma Crichton-Miller 2011

This year, a dominant theme seems to be deep space and dark computing: over the month-long series you'll find work by composer Iannis Xenakis, a live film score to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and a show by Onehotrix Point Never, whose synth explorations provide a modern take on spacey 1970s German kosmische.

This week's new music 2011