Xenakis: Les polytopes

by Iannis Xenakis

Text: French

135 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1975

About the author

Iannis Xenakis (also spelled as Yannis Xenakis; Greek: Γιάννης "Ιάννης" Ξενάκης, 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Greek-French composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalized citizen of France.

Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models in music such as applications of set theory, stochastic processes and game theory and was also an important influence on the development of electronic and computer music. He integrated music with architecture, designing music for pre-existing spaces, and designing spaces to be integrated with specific music compositions and performances.

Reviews

[Arcane_Candy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very nice photos, drawings, scores and graphs regarding Iannis Xenakis' electro-acoustic sound / light environments, but too bad the text is all French.