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Table of Contents
Preface Sharon Kanach x
Contributors xvii
Introduction A Conversation about Music between Iannis Xenakis and David Rosenboom xxx
Contexts
Carey Lovelace Looking at Xenakis Looking at Sound 1
Karen Reynolds and Roger Reynolds “Tradition is the Originality of the Past” (Memories of the Xenakis @ UCSD Festival) 13
Wolfang von Schmeinitz Iannis Xenakis’ Contribution to 20th Century Atonal Harmony and to the History of Equal Temperament (The Aristoxenean Sieve Theory and the Ptolemaic Alternative) 25
Robert Rowe Iannis Xenakis and Algorithmic Composition: Precursors, Co-cursors, Post-cursors 39
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Joel Chadabe Complexity in the Electronic Music of Iannis Xenakis 53
Jimmie Leblanc Xenakis’ Æsthetic Project: The Paradoxes of a Formalist Intuition 59
Eric Lewis The Cosmic Alloy: Xenakis as Platonic Demiurge 81
Brian Kane Xenakis: The First Composer of Biopolitics? 91
Olga Touloumi The Politics of Totality: Iannis Xenakis’ Polytope de Mycènes 101
Processes
Robert Wannamaker Mathematics and Design in the Music of Iannis Xenakis 127
Joseph Clarke Temporal Modes of Architectural Formation 143
Ronald Squibbs Varieties of Transformation in Xenakis’ Metastaseis 157
Benjamin R. Levy Clouds and Arborescences in Mycenae Alpha and the Polytope de Mycènes 173
Fabrice Marandola Of Paradigms and Drums: Analyzing and Performing Peaux from Pléïades 185
James Harley Graphic Conception of Musical Structure and Sonority in Jonchaies by Iannis Xenakis 205
Ben Duinker Rebonds: Thoughts on Structure and Performance 219
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Robert Hasegawa Coherence and Incoherence in Xenakis’ Embellie 231
Daniel Teige Dead or Alive. Aspects Concerning the Performance and Interpretation of Xenakis’ Polytopes today 245
Applications
Carl Skelton Five Points, New York 257
David Lieberman The Performity of Space—Architecture as the Production of Sound and Light 273
Athanassios Economou and Thomas Grasl Spatial Sieves 287
Stefan Smulovitz Kenaxis–inspired by the hand of Xenakis 315
Christopher Dobrian Realtime Stochastic Decision Making for Music Composition and Improvisation 325
Arthur Kampela Micro-metric Rhythms and Noises: Emanations from the Stochastic Cloud 341
Christopher Ariza Designing and Deploying Non-Octave- Repeating Scales with the Xenakis Sieve 363
Curtis Roads Grains, Forms, and Formalization 385
Chris Salter n-polytope (after Xenakis) 411
Appendix 423
Index 431