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BY XENAKIS

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"Le Corbusier’s ‘Elektronisches Gedicht’ under der Philips Pavilion" in Gravesaner Blätter 9 (1957): 43.

"Notes sur un ‘geste électronique’" in ReM 244 (1959): 25.

"Concerning Le Corbusier" in Gravesaner Blätter 27-8 (1966): 8.

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Arts/Sciences: Alloys. Translated by Sharon Kanach. New York: Pendragon Press, 1985. (first published in Tournai, Belgium, 1979).

"Xenakis on Xenakis" in Perspectives of New Music 25/1-2 (Winter-Summer 1987): 16-63.

"Concerning Time" in Perspectives of New Music 27/1 (Winter 1989): 84-92.

Kéleütha: Écrits. Preface and notes by Benoît Gibson. Paris: L'Arche, 1994.

Musique et originalité. Paris: Séguier, 1996.

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Music Composition Treks. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (forthcoming).

 

ON XENAKIS

Baltensperger, André. Iannis Xenakis und die Stochastische Musik: Komposition im Spannungsfeld von Architektur und Mathematik. Zurich: Paul Haupt, 1995.

Bois, Mario, ed. Iannis Xenakis–The Man and his Music. London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1967. (first published in Paris, 1966)

Butchers, C. "The Random Arts: Xenakis, Mathematics and Music" in Tempo 85 (1968): 2-5.

Charles, Daniel. La pensée de Xenakis. Paris: Boosey & Hawkes, 1968.

Delalande, François. "Il faut être constamment un immigré": Entretiens avec Xenakis. Paris: Buchet/Chastel, 1997.

DeLio, Thomas. "Iannis Xenakis’s Nomos Alpha: The Dialectics of Structure and Materials" in Journal of Music Theory 24/1 (Spring 1980): 63.

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Di Scipio, Agostino. "From Concret PH to Gendy301: Compositional models in the electronic music by Xenakis" in Sonus: Materiali per la musical contemporanea 7/1-3 (December 1995): 61-92. (in Italian)

________. "The Problem of Second Order Sonorities in Xenakis’s Electroacoustic Music" in Organized Sound 2/3 (December 1997): 165-78.

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Dufallo, Richard. "Interview with Xenakis" in Trackings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Durney, D. and Dominique Jameux. "Rencontres avec Iannis Xenakis" in Musique en jeu 1 (1970): 46.

Eichert, Randolph. Iannis Xenakis und die mathematische Grundlagenforschung. Sarrebruck: Pfau

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Flint, Ellen Rennie. "An Investigation of Real Time as Evidenced by the Structural and Formal Multiplicities in Iannis Xenakis' ‘Psappha'." Doctoral Dissertation. University of Maryland College Park, 1989.

________. "Metabole, Arborescences, and the Reconstruction of Time in Iannis Xenakis’s Psappha" in Contemporary Music Review 7/2 (1993): 221-48.

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Gibson, Benoît. "Xenakis: Organisation de l'espace, techniques d'écriture, orchestration, 1954-1962." DEA Thesis. Paris: IRCAM, 1992.

Griffiths, Paul. "Xenakis: Logic and Disorder" in Musical Times 66 (1975): 329.

Harley, James. "Still Rich & Strange" in Musical Times 137/1845 (November 1996): 9-15.

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Harley, Maria Anna. "Spatial Sound Movement in the Instrumental Music of Iannis Xenakis" in Journal of

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Hoffmann, Peter. "Zelluläre Automaten als Kompositorische Modelle" in Arbeitsprozesse in Physik und Musik. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1993.

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Lebens, James C. "An analysis of `Keren' for solo trombone by Iannis Xenakis: Randomly generated music within a symmetrical framework and performance considerations." Doctoral Thesis. Seattle: University of Washington, 1993.

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Lukes, Roberta Dorothy. "The `Poème électronique' of Edgard Varèse." Doctoral Dissertation. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1996.

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Orcalli, Angelo. "Le hasard se calcule": Una testi de Iannis Xenakis. Padua: Imprimitur, 1990.

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Smith, Jeffrey B. "Parallels in the development of electronic and percussion music and an examination of performance problems in Lejaren Hiller's `Machine Music' for piano, percussion and two-channel tape recorder with three recitals of selected works of Rolnick, Kessner, Xenakis, Winson, Niimi, and others." Doctoral Thesis. Denton: University of North Texas, 1992.

Solomos, Makis. "A propos des premières oeuvres (1953-69) de Iannis Xenakis: Pour une approche historique de l'émergence du phénomène du son." Doctoral Dissertation. Paris: Université de Paris IV, 1993.

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Uno, Yayoi. "The roles of compositional aim, syntax, and design in the assessment of musical styles: analyses of piano music by Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Milton Babbitt, and Ianns Xenakis circa 1950." Doctoral Dissertation. Rochester: Eastman School of Music, 1994.

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