Noise for Airports

Vibrations and how they get to your ears.

Noise for airports is a blog about culture, sound, music, and technology.

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Updated (sometimes) by Nick Seaver.  

A composition by Iannis Xenakis, Pleaides was originally commissioned for Les Percussions de Strasbourg, to premiere at the Opera du Rhin in May 1979. A sextet for percussion, it is here performed by the Yale Percussion Group.

I’ve embedded the first video of seven above. Think how nice it would be to have a little avant-garde percussion concert right now at your desk! (Click the via link below to listen to the rest.)

(via Rhizome)