Iannis Xenakis - Electronic Music
* originally posted on September 22, 2006
An essential CD of Xenakis' electronic works, this disc reissues the entirety of the Nonesuch Electro-Acoustic Music disc, and adds two later pieces. The contents are Diamorphoses, Orient-Occident, Bohor, and Concret P-H from the Nonesuch disc, and Habiki Hana Ma and S.709. The first four are all classics of musique concrete, generated from the simplest of sounds (smouldering charcoal, wrist bracelets). The highlight is the monumental 20-minute Bohor, a milestone of ambient-industrial music. Habiki Hana Ma is from the 70s and uses orchestral sounds as its base material. The latest piece is the computer-generated S.709 from 1994, which in a word is amazing. (David Martinelli)
Tracklisting:
1. Diamorphoses {6:55}
2. Concret PH {2:44}
3. Orient-Occident {10:58}
4. Bohor {21:38}
5. Hibiki-Hana-Ma {17:41}
6. S.709 {7:03}
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