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IANNIS XENAKIS

ATREES / NOMOS ALPHA / ST 4 / MORSIMA AMORSIMA LP

EMI CVC 2086

Groundbreaking experimental album from mathematical-musical genius Iannis Xenakis. French original 1st edition pressing.

Some info on the release:  Masterpiece of experimental music back from the 60's from greek composer Iannis Xenakis. This is the original 1st french press, was later re-issued as a part of the EMI Perspectives Musicales series and also on Angel Records, Us in the 70's.

Iannis Xenakis (May 29, 1922 – February 4, 2001) was a Greek composer, music theorist and architect. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models such as applications of set theory, varied use of stochastic processes, game theory, etc., in music, and was also an important influence on the development of electronic music.

Among his most important works are Metastaseis (1953–4) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra; percussion works such as Psappha (1975) and Pléïades (1979); compositions that introduced spatialization by dispersing musicians among the audience, such as Terretektorh (1966); electronic works created using Xenakis' UPIC system; and the massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes. Among the numerous theoretical writings he authored, the book Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (1971) is regarded as one of his most important. As an architect, Xenakis is primarily known for his early work under Le Corbusier: the Sainte Marie de La Tourette, on which the two architects collaborated, and the Philips Pavilion at Expo 58, which Xenakis designed alone.

Xenakis pioneered electronic, computer music, the application of mathematics, statistics, and physics to music and music theory, and the integration of sound and architecture. He used techniques related to probability theory, stochastic processes, statistics, statistical mechanics, group theory, game theory, set theory, and other branches of mathematics and physics in his compositions. He integrated music with architecture, designing music for pre-existing spaces, and designing spaces to be integrated with specific music compositions and performances. He integrated both with political commentary. He viewed compositions as reification and formal structures of abstract ideas, not as ends, to be later incorporated into families of compositions, "a form of composition which is not the object in itself, but an idea in itself, that is to say, the beginnings of a family of compositions." Specific examples of mathematics, statistics, and physics applied to music composition are the use of the statistical mechanics of gases in Pithoprakta, statistical distribution of points on a plane in Diamorphoses, minimal constraints in Achorripsis, the normal distribution in ST/10 and Atrées, Markov chains in Analogiques, game theory in Duel and Stratégie, group theory in Nomos Alpha, set theory in Herma and Eonta, and Brownian motion in N'Shima. Xenakis was a contemporary with fellow greek composers Anestis Logothetis, Jani Christou and Kyriakos Sfetsas and was creating in a time that flourished the various sound experiments of Pierre Schaeffer & Pierre Henry, Henk Badings and of course Luciano Berio, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, Alvin Curran and Toshi Ichiyanagi. At the Shirah Arts Festival in Persepolis, he designed Polytope as a composition specific to the historic site. The following year he was commissioned by the brutal dictator, the Shah of Iran, to compose Nuits, which Xenakis dedicated to political prisoners in protest at the Shah’s atrocities. Composers who have acknowledged being influenced by Xenakis include Krzysztof Penderecki and Toru Takemitsu. On the Nurse with wound list of influences.

Condition: Vinyl lies in at least very good++ condition (visually) its' only "defect" being a tiny "dirt" like spot (which sounds for some second), while it plays with some crackle, quite evident in some passages. Cover lies in excellent condition, quite well preserved.

Tracklist

Atrées En 5 Parties

A1   1re Partie     Conductor - Konstantin Simonovitch
  Ensemble - Ensemble Instrumental De Musique Contemporaine De Paris A2   3ème Partie     Conductor - Konstantin Simonovitch
  Ensemble - Ensemble Instrumental De Musique Contemporaine De Paris A3   5ème Partie     Conductor - Konstantin Simonovitch
  Ensemble - Ensemble Instrumental De Musique Contemporaine De Paris A4   2ème Partie     Conductor - Konstantin Simonovitch
  Ensemble - Ensemble Instrumental De Musique Contemporaine De Paris A5   4ème Partie     Conductor - Konstantin Simonovitch
  Ensemble - Ensemble Instrumental De Musique Contemporaine De Paris   Morsima-Amorsima A6   Morsima-Amorsima     Cello - Paul Boufil
  Double Bass - Jacques Cazauran
  Leader - Konstantin Simonovitch
  Piano - Georges Pludermacher
  Violin - Jean-Claude Bernède   ST 4 B1   ST 4     Cello - Paul Boufil
  Ensemble - Quatuor Bernède
  Violin [1st] - Jean-Claude Bernède
  Violin [2nd] - Jacques Prat
  Violin [Alto] - Bruno Pasquier   Nomos Alpha B2   Nomos Alpha     Cello - Pierre Penassou

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