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From Xenakis's Upic to Graphic Notation Today

by Iannis Xenakis , Peter Weibel , Ludger Brummer
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9783775747417
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Hatje Cantz
  • Publisher Imprint: Hatje Cantz
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  • Pages: 672
  • Original Price: USD 55.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1134 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Individual Artists / Monographs

On the legacy of Xenakis' innovations in music notation for contemporary composers

Trained in mechanical engineering, Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) transformed mathematical models into architectonic musical entities.

In the late 1970s Xenakis developed a digital apparatus that rendered waveforms drawn on a tablet as musical compositions. The device was called UPIC, or Unit� Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu, named for the French contemporary music research institute that Xenakis had helped found a decade earlier. The device proved to be an essential tool for the development of contemporary music--a version of the software is still used by today's composers.

Featuring archival materials, this book examines the origins of Xenakis' UPIC. It also serves as a compositional tool: embedded QR codes allow readers to create their own sound-images from UPIC compositions.

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