XENAKIS The Complete Quartets: JACK Quartet Tetras (1983)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- The powerhouse JACK Quartet returns to Philadelphia for a concert featuring the hypercomplex string quartets by Iannis Xenakis. A leading figure in twentieth century music, Xenakis (1922 - 2001) was trained as a civil engineer, then became an architect and developed revolutionary designs while working with Le Corbusier. Utilizing his technical background, Xenakis approached composition with a curious mix of analysis and intuition, creating works of massed orchestral textures, dense electronics, polyrhythmic percussion music. Taken as a whole, the four string quartets - Tetora, Ergma, ST-4/1,080262, and Tetras - represent a remarkable overview of this composer's development and changing approaches to sound, complexity, density, and form.
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XENAKIS: The Complete String Quartets
performed by the JACK Quartet
Iannis Xenakis, Tetora
Iannis Xenakis, Ergma
Iannis Xenakis, ST-4/1,080262
Iannis Xenakis, Tetras
Recorded at The Rotunda in Philadelphia, PA on March 9, 2014.
Video by Bob Sweeney
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One of the most rocking string quartets ever written, up there with Webern and Bartok.
All the parts so tightly intertwined, the primal energy, the passion and inspiration. Thank you Iannis
It's hard to listen this but also it's very helpful because we can see some cool extended techniques.
It's funny that some listeners seem to expect this to sound like Boccherini. It's not Boccherini. Or even Bartok. This is something else altogether. Those who dislike it should just dial it out and look for something more congenital to their tastes. Don't leave vulgar comments.
Look, it's not easy listening. But for listeners who are willing to try to grasp it, it is something quite dynamic and refreshing. Xenakis could have played it safe and composed tonal and insipid music, but he had more advanced and far-reaching ideas about what music could be. Let us give him a fair listening, or avoid it and look for something less challenging. But let's please avoid name-calling and insults.
And how is referring to tonal composers as "insipid" not an insult? I love music on both ends of the spectrum, but both sides are way too judgmental of the other. We can do better!
love this!!! Move over Bush Tetras!!
wow thanks for uploading this - one of my favorite pieces by Xenakis. the massive proliferation of "this kind of music" (whatever i mean by that...) on channels such as RUclips is really amazing, and when taken as a whole, it seems to constitute an ad-hoc dimension of alternative cultural choice, which is imminently accessible to anyone with an internet connection. like anything, it has its drawbacks, of course, but i'm heartened to see so many users making the effort to provide truly alternative content. banality will probably always be the dominant cultural paradigm, but with the varied array of options becoming increasingly available, it's hard to even care about that anymore. there's so much to experience for those who want it.
True that
so good...
This is so great, I was hooked the very first time I heard it after a few bars... I knew a little of Xenakis works so I didn´t expect it to sound like anyone else, I remember seeing a meeting between Xenakis and Zappa and Xenakis demonstrating how he knew musicians would be able to play his music.
Surprisingly danceable.
Very thought provoking music. A very interesting abstract form.
Having never listened to Avant Garde before, Xenakis has certainly introduced me to it.
Honestly... Despite the fact of having melody, or some time.... This.. Art form (yes I say Art form) honestly feels as if it has some deeper meaning or some deeper facet to it.
I've hated music my whole life. But this very good. Lyrics would be a welcome addition.
How would you add lyrics to this?
...on another note, have you listened to Berio's Sequenza III?
It tells a story. Let us go to the dancing place. Community, collective, hive.
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Did Xenakis really say that Pink Floyd was "nothing"? Can you - Souhail Amrani - direct me to where he says this? I like Tetras, but I wouldn't want to listen to it all the time, preferring maybe Pink Floyd! It's just that different kinds of music do different things to/for me. I can't believe that Xenakis would be so short-sighted as to make a comment like that...
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boulez said that the trois petites liturgies is brothel music, what do you think, personally i think he has a point
On the subject of "hypercomplex" music, personally I find more substance in the work of Brian Ferneyhough, and even more in the compositions of Milton Babbitt. Instrumental effects producing interesting sounds should not be mistaken for true complexity, which begins at the structural, conceptual level
lendallpitts Xenakis isn't about the complexity, that's not his beef
I don't know, xenakis is so much more demented, raw power in this shit.