Iannis Xenakis

Compositor griego, famoso por utilizar ideas matemáticas en su música. Nació en Braila, Rumania y estudió ingeniería en Grecia. Durante la II Guerra Mundial participó en el movimiento de resistencia, y perdió un ojo. Después de la guerra tuvo que huir a Francia a causa de su actividad política; allí ha vivido desde entonces (en 1965 adoptó la nacionalidad francesa). Estudió en París con los compositores franceses Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud y Olivier Messiaen y entre 1948 y 1960 trabajó como ayudante del arquitecto francés Le Corbusier. Como miembro de su estudio diseñó el pabellón Philips de la Exposición mundial de Bruselas de 1958, diseño que presenta algunas analogías con su obra orquestal Metástasis (1954).

Su música se ha caracterizado por este tipo de interacción entre la música y las ideas procedentes de la física, la arquitectura y especialmente de las matemáticas. Su concepto de música estocástica se basa en ideas matemáticas como la teoría de conjuntos, la lógica simbólica y la teoría de probabilidades unidas a un concepto de stochos o evolución hacia un estado estable. En su trabajo de composición utiliza elementos similares a los procesos aleatorios de John Cage, pero en un marco global de control, de forma que el resultado queda totalmente registrado con notación musical. En 1966 creó la Escuela de Música Matemática y Automática. Otro aspecto de su obra es la capacidad para evocar un ambiente de ritual antiguo, algo que puede apreciarse en Oresteia (1966), Medea (1967) y Persépolis (1971), obra en cinta compuesta para su interpretación en las ruinas de la ciudad iraní del mismo nombre.


Iannis Xenakis (May 29, 1922, Romania - February 4, 2001) was a Greek composer who spent much of his life in Paris, France. He is acclaimed as one of the most important composers of contemporary music.

He was born in Brăila, Romania, and studied architecture in Athens, Greece. Xenakis participated in the Greek Resistance during the World War II and the first phase of Greek Civil War as a member of the students company Lord Byron of ELAS (Greek Peoples Liberation Army). He received a severe face wound and escaped a death sentence. In the '50s he fled to Paris and worked with Le Corbusier. While his assistant, Xenakis designed the Philips Pavilion, home of the première of Edgar Varèse's Poème Électronique at the 1958 Brussels International Fair.

He studied music composition with Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, and Olivier Messiaen. He is particularly remembered for his pioneering electronic and computer music, and for the use of stochastic mathematical techniques in his compositions, including probability (Maxwell-Boltzmann kynetic theory of gases in Pithoprakta, aleatory distribution of points on a plane in Diamorphoses, minimal constraints in Achorripsis, Gaussian distribution in ST/10 and Atrées, Markovian chains in Analogiques), game theory (in Duel and Stratégie), group theory (Nomos Alpha), and Boolean algebra (in Herma and Eonta). In keeping with his use of probabilistic theories, many of Xenakis' pieces are, in his own words, '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'. In 1962 he published Musique Formelles—later revised, expanded and translated into Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition in 1971—a collection of essays on his musical ideas and composition techniques, regarded as one of the most important theoretical works of 20th century music.

Iannis Xenakis - Diamorphoses

Xenakis: Palimpsest, Épéi, Dikhthas, Akanthos
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Iannis Xenakis - The Music for Strings
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Iannis Xenakis: Chamber Music: 1955-1990
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Iannis Xenakis - Orchestral WorksDownload/Bajar

Iannis Xenakis - St/10-1 080262
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Iannis Xenakis - La Légende d'Eer
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Iannis Xenakis & Pascal Dusapin - Cécile Daroux
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Iannis Xenakis - Electronic Music
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Iannis Xenakis - Kraanerg
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Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis Pithoprakta Eonta
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Iannis Xenakis - Pléiades

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