Agreed! It's really great to hear him talk. He seems like such a nice man! More so then I would have expected after listening to his music and knowing his history.
Loved what Xenakis said. Especially that the best way to civilize people is to have more than one job at once. A man of supreme intellect, whose music seems to be nothing like anything written ever. It just stands for itself.
My friend, we are not even approaching a situation where people strive to have several roles consecutively. They have to establish themselves in one role and continue like slaves, be they refuse collectors or mathematicians.
Very interesting! But i must mention that it seems to me that he might be wrong about Bach here.Didn't the man signed everything with Soli Deo gloria? and is quoted saying things like ''“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”? I think Bach found musical inspiration in both religion and mathematics.
Whoooaaa whoaaaa... back it up.....good call fxbip...he said something about about Back using magic squares.....i once heard Bach was receiving gematric sequences from Kabbalistic Rabbis. The possiblity that xenakis is giving THAT some sort of creedence ( and apparently liked Bach) is very interesting revelation about both of these geniuses. ( if im not totally off here). Hmmmm...
Agreed! It's really great to hear him talk. He seems like such a nice man! More so then I would have expected after listening to his music and knowing his history.
This was filmed in Bremen in 1991, as part of the festivities round X.
A man clearly ahead of his times. I didn't know about the connection between metastasis and the phillips pavillon, thank you so much for this upload!
awesome! totally...
Loved what Xenakis said. Especially that the best way to civilize people is to have more than one job at once. A man of supreme intellect, whose music seems to be nothing like anything written ever. It just stands for itself.
My friend, we are not even approaching a situation where people strive to have several roles consecutively. They have to establish themselves in one role and continue like slaves, be they refuse collectors or mathematicians.
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Xenakis discovered a whole new sound planet by new ways of music formalisation
Thanks for posting this interview. Amazing man!
Great upload!! He was a mathematician,architect,(pupil of Le Corbusier). A Resistance activist once sentenced to death.
this was really awesome. thanks for uploading this!
20 years today .... RIP master ....
Very interesting! But i must mention that it seems to me that he might be wrong about Bach here.Didn't the man signed everything with Soli Deo gloria? and is quoted saying things like ''“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”? I think Bach found musical inspiration in both religion and mathematics.
Whoooaaa whoaaaa... back it up.....good call fxbip...he said something about about Back using magic squares.....i once heard Bach was receiving gematric sequences from Kabbalistic Rabbis. The possiblity that xenakis is giving THAT some sort of creedence ( and apparently liked Bach) is very interesting revelation about both of these geniuses. ( if im not totally off here). Hmmmm...
Bach may well have said this for political/employment reasons
This man was extraordinary
yes!
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What is the date of this interview? Any further details concerning who filmed this and where this was filmed? Thank you!
This was filmed in Bremen in 1991, as part of the festivities round X - See comment above :)
Did realise he understood German. And he also speaks English, French and Greek?
yes!
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A musical zero went on the top
dw they just misspelled "hero"
@Miloš Bulajić Were you born this elitist or did you take lessons from Boulez?
do you remember your born of frustration?