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01. IANNIS XENAKIS - La Légende d'Eer Part I
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02. IANNIS XENAKIS - La Légende d'Eer Part II
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ARTIST
XENAKIS, IANNIS
TITLE
La Legende d'Eer
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
KARLRECORDS
CATALOG #
KR 024LP
KR 024LP
GENRE
CLASSICAL
RELEASE DATE
10/21/2022
Individual LP from the
Electroacoustic Works
boxset. The second release in the Perihel series is one of the most famous electroacoustic compositions by
Iannis Xenakis
. When Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), who had fought against the occupation as part of the communist resistance, moved to Paris in 1947 it was the start of a highly creative and impressive career. Xenakis not only studied composition with
Olivier Messiaen
and became one of the most innovative composers of the 20th century, he also worked as assistant to
Le Corbusier
and realized a.o. the Philips Pavilion for the World Exhibition in Brussels, 1958. His compositions often are based on mathematical principles (in 1966 he founded the CEMAMu - Centre d'Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales), which give his music an unprecedented aesthetic and as The Guardian would say, a "
shocking otherness
". The most famous works of Xenakis, who won the Polar Music Prize (considered the unofficial Nobel Prize for music) in 1999, are his compositions for orchestra
Metastasis
,
Pithoprakta
and
Terretektorh
(where the 88 musicians are spread within the audience) and the electroacoustic compositions
Persepolis
,
Concret PH
,
Bohor
and
La Légende d'Eer
where Xenakis integrated his stochastic synthesis sounds for the first time. As legendary as this piece is, there is an impenetrable thicket of versions and stories around
La Légende d'Eer
, it exists in different releases, with wrong sample rates or digitized backwards. This version uses the 8-track-version that Xenakis himself presented at Darmstädter Ferienkurse in August of 1978. As the automatic spatialization is lost, this became the only original version of this composition and is presented here (mixed down to stereo by
Martin Wurmnest
who tried to preserve the spatial movements as perceptible as possible.
La Légende d'Eer
not only became a milestone of electroacoustic music but is also an important reference for noise and industrial musicians up to the present day. Mixed by Martin Wurmnest, mastered & cut by
Rashad Becker
. Includes insert with liner notes by
Reinhold Friedl
.
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