Exiled from Greece, Iannis Xenakis worked for the architect Le Corbusier before devoting the rest of his life to creating music as a kind of aural sculpture. The Daily Telegraph
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Xenakis was a brave outsider: as a young Greek resistance fighter, he was left for dead, wounded by a British bomb in the aftermath of World War II. A mathematician, engineer and architect who worked on some of Le Corbusier most famous buildings, Xenakis stood apart from the post-war musical orthodoxy, and rewrote the book on composing music from his highly individual perspective. It is this bold individuality that has made him an inspiration to younger generations of composers, electronic artists and performers. http://www.rfh.org.uk/
Xenakis (incidentally) did the score for the LeC documentary ... you know the one ... Le Corbusier is NO MORE! ... with the freaky woman showing up (all of a sudden) at Villa Savoy. great stuff, but it still garners at least a guffaw or two from my students when they first see it.
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South Bank Centre - Queen Elizabeth Hall/ Purcell Room
ARCHITECTS IN SOUND 7-9 Oct.
Xenakis was a brave outsider: as a young Greek resistance fighter, he was left for dead, wounded by a British bomb in the aftermath of World War II. A mathematician, engineer and architect who worked on some of Le Corbusier most famous buildings, Xenakis stood apart from the post-war musical orthodoxy, and rewrote the book on composing music from his highly individual perspective. It is this bold individuality that has made him an inspiration to younger generations of composers, electronic artists and performers.
http://www.rfh.org.uk/
Xenakis (incidentally) did the score for the LeC documentary ... you know the one ... Le Corbusier is NO MORE! ... with the freaky woman showing up (all of a sudden) at Villa Savoy. great stuff, but it still garners at least a guffaw or two from my students when they first see it.
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