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Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Greek: Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, pronounced [ˈʝanis kseˈnacis]; 29 May 1922 [a] – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and ...
Jun 18, 2024 · Recent Posts: Hiroaki Ooi Piano Recital and Eonta played in Tokyo on 18 September 2024. Tribute to Xenakis in Katounia (island of Evia, Greece), August 30-31, 2024. (no title) Les Percussions de Strasbourg in concert in Colmar on 12 July 2024.
Iannis Xenakis (born May 29, 1922, Brăila, Romania—died February 4, 2001, Paris, France) was a Romanian-born French composer, architect, and mathematician who originated musique stochastique, music composed with the aid of electronic computers and based upon mathematical probability systems.
May 6, 2021 · 1938. Autumn: leaves for Athens, in preparatory class for the entrance exam to the Polytechnio (National Technical University of Athens). Xenakis begins to compose and takes lessons in analysis, harmony and counterpoint with Aristotle Koundourov. He creates a geometric transcription of Bach’s works.
Sep 22, 2022 · Xenakis left Greece in 1947, while the country was being torn apart by civil war, after hiding in Athens. He was sentenced to death, officially for political terrorism.
Dec 11, 2023 · Greek composer Iannis Xenakis has an enduring legacy as one of the foremost composers of avant-garde music in the twentieth century. He came to music composition through many diverse passions and integrated them all throughout his work.
Feb 5, 2001 · Iannis Xenakis, the Greek-French composer who often used highly sophisticated scientific and mathematical theories to arrive at music of primitive power, died yesterday at his home in Paris. He...
Xenakis elaborated on two types of stochastic music: free stochastic music, applied to the works of 1955-57; and Markovian stochastic music, applied to the works of the following two years, 1958-59. Xenakis’s first writing on the possible applications of probability theory to organize sound characteristics dates from 1956.
Iannis Xenakis was an architect of sound in the true sense of the term: the young refugee had hardly arrived in Paris when he found a position with the famous architect Le Corbusier.
Discover the life and works of Xenakis, a visionary composer who fused mathematics, architecture and music.
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