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- Persephassa has established itself as a definitive classic in the percussion repertoire.
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Shiraz Arts Festival which was held in Shiraz from 1967 to 1977 featured many contemporary renowned artists who were commissioned by the Iranian royalty to compose or create works of art for performance in the arts festival. Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) participated in Shiraz Arts Festival three times in 1968, 1969 and 1971. The Greek-French composer, architect and music theorist, composed Persepolis a polytope to the historic site and named after the ancient capital of the Persian Empire. Persephassa (Persepolis) which consists of “similarly epic proportions” is believed to be similar to La Légende D’Eer in sound and to Bohor in force. The music was “designed to play during a light show using multiple lasers and mirrors.”
We have borrowed the following review of the piece from www.nightoftheworld.com:
“Persepolis squeals into life amid a multitude of curious mechanical moans and groans that sound as if a scrap yard is slowly awakening out of hibernation. There is no information as to the methods which were used to produce the sounds but I fe
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Iannis Xenakis
Greek-French composer, architect and engineer (1922–2001)
Iannis Xenakis | |
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Xenakis in his Paris studio, c. 1970 | |
| Born | Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (1922-05-29)29 May 1922 Brăila, Romania |
| Died | 4 February 2001(2001-02-04) (aged 79) Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, architect |
| Years active | 1947–1997 |
| Works | List of compositions |
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| Children | 1 |
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Greek: Γιάννης "Ιάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, pronounced[ˈʝaniskseˈnacis]; 29 May 1922[a] – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde[2] composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.[3]
After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalised citizen of France eighteen years later.[4] 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 compu
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Persephassa at Storm King
Free Ride Home by Kenneth Snelson
Persepolis, in Iran
Of all of the music we play that makes reference to nature, it is the work of Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) that for me most clearly suggests natural phenomena in their manner of operation and capacity for overwhelming power. The Greek born Xenakis was a trained and practicing architect, engineer, mathematician, music theorist, and not least one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. His application of mathematical models and architectural concepts to sound resulted in a music of beautifully conceived forms containing highly volatile materials. Much like nature, his music seems to exist beyond human directed goals or narrative structure. While obeying the necessary laws of physics, a natural event has its own sense of time and space and a capacity for both the sublime and the terrible, but it is ultimately unpredictable and utterly without concern for humans or our experience of it. The Storm King Art Center, where we will play Xenakis’s Persephassa this weekend, is a place of
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