Meta-Xenakis: New Perspectives on Iannis Xenakis’s Life, Work, and Legacies - cover image

Copyright

Sharon Kanach; Peter Nelson. Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s).

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-224-2
Hardback978-1-80511-225-9
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Language

  • English

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Keywords

  • Iannis Xenakis
  • music composition
  • aesthetics
  • architecture
  • twentieth century’s European culture

    Meta-Xenakis

    New Perspectives on Iannis Xenakis’s Life, Work, and Legacies

    • Sharon Kanach (editor)
    • Peter Nelson (editor)
    FORTHCOMING
    Meta-Xenakis offers readers a comprehensive collection of insights into the history, works and legacy of Iannis Xenakis, one of the twentieth century’s most significant creative figures. It presents a transcontinental engagement with his life and output, focusing as much on the impact of the questions he posed as on the accomplishments of his body of work.

    This volume evolved out of the multi-modal, international Meta-Xenakis Consortium’s artistic and scholarly events commemorating his centenary. Informative and comprehensive, contributions span subjects including music composition, creative pedagogy, aesthetics, game theory, architecture, and the social and political contexts in which Xenakis operated. The book is organized in eight sections, centered on different facets of Xenakis’s work and reception. It includes a digital archive of audio and visual media from the events staged throughout 2022, as well as computer software.

    Bringing into conversation the diverse perspectives and insights of researchers, musicians and artists, this volume serves as a foundational resource for future research on the life and work of Xenakis. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners across a range of disciplines including music, architecture, cybernetics and computation, and the digital arts.

    Endorsements

    This book represents a fascinating panorama of observations, recollections and recent scholarship around the life, thought and impact of Iannis Xenakis.

    Robert Rowe

    Professor of Music Technology, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

    Contributors

    Sharon Kanach

    (editor)
    Co-president of the Centre Iannis Xenakis at University of Rouen

    The American musician Sharon Kanach first went to France to study with Nadia Boulanger. Very quickly however, in 1978, her path crossed that of Iannis Xenakis (1922 – 2001), with whom she studied and collaborated closely, especially on his writings (Arts/Sciences: Alloys, Formalized Music, Music and Architecture…). With the publisher Pendragon Press (recently closed) she was the editor of the Xenakis Series where a total of six books were produced. In 2009, she founded the Xenakis Project of the Americas under the auspices of the Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the Graduate Center of City University of New York and is currently co-president of the Centre Iannis Xenakis based at the Université de Rouen Normandie (France), under the auspices of the research lab Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire (GRHis). Between 2013-2023, she was on the Editorial Committee of Circuit, musiques contemporaines. In 2022, under her directorship, the CIX initiated the Meta-Xenakis Consortium to celebrate the centenary of Xenakis’s birth. Sharon Kanach has been promoted to ‘Chevalière de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French Ministry of Culture.

    Peter Nelson

    (editor)
    Professor Emeritus of Music and Technology at University of Edinburgh
    https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/prof-peter-nelson

    The British composer and music scholar Peter Nelson is Professor Emeritus of Music and Technology at the University of Edinburgh, where he established the electronic and computer music studios and led a research group in music and artificial intelligence. He met Iannis Xenakis in 1986 and became an associate of Xenakis’s computer music studio Les Ateliers UPIC between 1987 and 1991, touring and teaching with the Atelier and composing a number of works for UPIC. Between 1992 and 2022 he was Editor of the international journal Contemporary Music Review, published by Routledge.