with a new mix by FURT!
re-read bits of this thread: there is a diamanda-xenakis conne(x)ion but she also worked with vinko globokar, whose 'oblak semen' disc is a must. and globokar was one of the first prominent solo perfs of 'new music', cpl of lps on deustche gramophon you'll find knocking round 2nd hand shops. Listening to her galas' 'vena cava' and 'schrei x' but coupling with her work in song, she's almost like an ideal entry point to all the 'hard' composition stuff. those discs, esp 'schrei x' detail her work with microphones and perf art tactics.
read the wire primer - anyone have any reservations about that chamber music disc? sure its necessary but I really disliked his piano pieces, found that they really undermined the whole package, which had those excellent str quartets. also wasn't into his solo stuff, like the LP he talks abt is named 'intecommunicazione' and that's by zimmermann, which i found it to be the best work for cello ever (its for piano and cello but the piano stalks it around)
I agree with paul (he puts it v nicely on this thread) on scale-down he's a tad disappointing.
but there's quite a bit to look out for: been neglecting 'oresteia'. 'joachimes', 'echange' and 'n'shima' sounded great. I never got 'pleaides' as I found the perc duo I witnessed at the perf i went to last year quite dull but maybe I'll try this, even if philip clark has a reservation.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 20 August 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 20 August 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― b8a, Saturday, 20 August 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
"As a partisan against the Nazis, he (Xenakis) sustained injuries to his face and lost an eye..."
Which is complete bollocks, he lost his eye fighting for the Communists against the British. To be precise, he lost it during an assault on a British tank. If the South Bank can't get it right... Who's going to any of this? I haven't bought any tickets for any of the concerts yet.
― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 22 September 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brakhage (brakhage), Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm going to every concert I think, esp. looking forward to Legende d'Eer.
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link
The CD has risen to the top of my 'needs to be remastered' list.
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Friday, 7 October 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Friday, 7 October 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 8 October 2005 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link
the highlights of the film were te big X himself. esp:
scene of him at his desk typing nos into a calculator, writes something down, then types some more numbers then goes 'ugh' as if to say that the calculation couldn't be made! - hilarity (of course he prob types the wronged key in)
also revisiting his old school (awful chequered trousers, btw), at one point going to the old ruins where theater used to take place - goes up a few steps - starts citing shakespeare in dodgy eng accent, then asks 'that ws good no?'
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
loads of artskool hotties to gawp at tho hurrah
― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link
'loads of artskool hotties to gawp at tho hurrah'
damn!
grr i couldn't make it but the xenakis gig i went to last year had one of the mego ppl (russell haswell i think) re-mixing xenakis - i dunno, I've been to a concert of berio's electronic music and without visuals this kind of thing falls a tad flat but still grr i couldn't stay!
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link
i dont think i'm in a position to judge to what extent legend had been remixed or rejigged etc wrt to an original, but there were visuals; basically a glowing ember rectangle of red light on the stage, slowly growing and contracting and being all intense like. i will charitably say YAWN it sort of focused the maelstrom of sound (ie. a tardis materialises in the rainforest for 45 mins) insofar as it occured to you that one man composed this alone.
― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
(I read bw's essay over a year ago on esther leaslie's site wtf! its been around for ages...maybe ppl want to overrate, it might be felt that he ws wronged bcz he dared to tell LIKE IT IS! I can't even quite recall that much about his argt right now)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Indeed, there seemed to be an amazing number of attractive women there, I must go to more concerts of avant garde classical music!
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link
there's another thread where alext rather elegantly dismantles BW's entire 'reading' of Adorno in the space of a few short paras, superb
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Thursday 24 November 2005 - 7.30pm new noise / John Kenny
Programme:Iannis Xenakis - Dmaathan John Cage - Ryoanji Pedro Gomez-Egana - New work (World premiere) Tansy Davies - New work Burgess / Fairclough / Kenny / Miller - New work (World premiere) John Kenny - Wild Stone John Kenny - The Voice of the Carnyx Emily Hall - Join Dobrinka Tabakova - Frozen Rive Flows Ian Willcock - For the Republic
Part of the BMIC's Cutting Edge series 2005. For more information please visit the BMIC website. Tickets cost £7 & £10 and are available on 020 7928 1902.The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST
(near waterloo east - saw a wonderful concert last month w/ works by Finnissy, Barrett, Rzewski, Ian Pace and more)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Saturday, 11 March 2006 04:57 (eighteen years ago) link
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=yztoaNakKok&feature=related
― Milton Parker, Monday, 28 July 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
'gmeeoorh' for organ (1974) is the shit.
I'll bet it is, but how to hear it? Has it ever been recorded?!!??!?! Groovin' on lots of solo Xenakis pieces lately. Love "Keren" for trombone, "Nomos Alpha", "Evyrali" et al.
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link
And, apropos of nothing, my 10 favourite titles of Xenakis' pieces:
WaargOophaaGmeeoorhKraanergKeqropsPhlegraTrookhTerretektorhAchorripsisTherapsPithoprakta
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Nitpick: should be Troorkh I think, for trombone + orkhestra?
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, Troorkh, that's right
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
More Xenakis in "that" London, but didn't they do "Eonta" and "La légende d'Eer" the last time round?
― Tom D (Lenin's his feir and Liebknecht's his mate) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"La légende d'Eer" once every six years is still too seldom. there should be a room where you can go to hear it in 8 channels every week
I saw the performance of "Oresteia" outdoors at CalArts last November and it was one to remember. they handed out hundreds of resonating coil noisemakers to the audience for the ending while the children's chorus ran through the audience shrieking the final 'chords'. maybe it was just the picnic & wine atmosphere but it all seemed to have a fun vibe even though it still sounded terrifying
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar
― eid orb (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 May 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
hoping there isn't some trite ecumeno-mystical paratext trash accompanying this cuz for me it's just the sound of everything altogether
― eid orb (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 May 2011 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I love how it sounds the way the title would suggest it sounds.
― corey, Thursday, 5 May 2011 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
that would be shaaAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaar to account for the exquistite portamento
― eid orb (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 May 2011 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Search: SynaphaïAntikhthonMetastaesisAïsJonchaiesEvryaliHermaShaar
Destroy:KyaniaHorosIoolkos
― corey, Thursday, 5 May 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/p2AR0.jpg
― eid orb (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 May 2011 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn5F9m4Qf3w
xenakis died fifteen years ago today
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 4 February 2016 12:21 (eight years ago) link
Tempting new 5LP and CD box set of electroacoustic works now available. 14 copies of the vinyl left at the time of writing, don't sleep if you want one of these:
https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/electroacoustic-works
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 14 January 2022 08:13 (two years ago) link
^^^I have been listening to that today. Persepolis (1972) and La Légende d’Eer (1978) on repeat.
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link
Waiting for my copy of the 5CD to arrive from Germany.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
Scored a nice clean copy of the GRM Works LP just the other day. I love the note for Bohor:
The author deliberately abstained from giving any descriptive information on his piece, letting the listener choose an imaginary route for himself
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link
I'm getting so obsessed with this, I doubt I'll listen to much else for the next week.
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link