Thursday, July 17, 2008

Iannis Xenakis on electronic composition


"With the aid of electronic computers, the composer becomes a sort of pilot: pressing buttons, introducing coordinates and supervising the controls of a cosmic vessel sailing in the space of sound, across sonic constellations and galaxies that could formerly be glimpsed only in a distant dream."

-Iannis Xenakis, Formalised Music, 1971

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