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Iannis Xenakis
Born
in Brăila, Romania
May 29, 1922
Died
February 04, 2001
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“Art, and above all, music has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks to draw towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work
of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal. This tremendous truth is not made of objects, emotions, or sensations; it is beyond these, as Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is beyond music. This is why art can lead to realms that religion still occupies for some people.”
― Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition
of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal. This tremendous truth is not made of objects, emotions, or sensations; it is beyond these, as Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is beyond music. This is why art can lead to realms that religion still occupies for some people.”
― Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition
“Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?”
― Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary
― Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary
“The sub-structure of music is much closer to the sub-structure of space and time. Music is purer, much closer to the categories of the mind.”
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