Posts tagged xenakis

From Alex Ross, a more thorough (near-complete, I think?) video of the recent MakeMusicNY lake performance of Xenakis’ Persephassa, in which a percussion sextet surrounds the audience. In this case, on boats.

(via The Rest Is Noise)

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)