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Conductor Charles Zachary Bornstein is a Xenakis specialist. The revolutionary Eonta is like no music before or since: cascading notes like falling starstogether with waves of sound from the brass. Akanthos is full of primeval mystery. Rebons an incredible crowd-pleaser forvirtuoso solo percussion. Finally, the most recent work of Xenakis to be recorded, Plekto , also receives its first recording.
The model Xenakis utilised for the piece was that of light refracted through water, with the piano representing water and the brass portraying near blinding light, but this is no picture postcard representation. Splashy piano writing trickles everywhere with the power of simultaneous waterfalls. Underneath, muted brass enter imperceptibly until their reflection becomes a resonant reality; tidal waves of brass later overwhelm the piano as the two battle for supremacy.
The microtonal vocal writing is kept determinedly untamed for the niceties of the trained voice, and the clustery brass and amplified cello accompaniment equals their raw expressivity. Then — rare in Xenakis — a joke, as a naked tonal fanfare in the ensemble appears without reason.
Xenakis usually locks counterpoint into his familiar sound masses, but here lines jut out provocatively. A mediating percussion part glues the whole raggedy enterprise together. He Composes Differently, Therefore He Exists At a time when so many composers have given up on radical innovation, the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, who turns 75 this year, has become a heatening figure. In more than four decades of working with orchestras he has developed a keen imagination for sound, generated by new playing techniques or, more usually these days, by assembling chords that works as single colors.
Xenakis expressly stated that Bohor "needs space" in order to be heard properly and made careful speaker designations image 2 for each realization of Bohor, taking into consideration the dimensions and acoustics of its various performance spaces. Tonight's performance follows a projection plan in which each of the 4 sources are fed through a pair of speakers diametrically set apart, creating a circular configuration of 8 speakers enveloping the audience, as shown here, a design that Low Library accommodates nicely.
Molding a unique amalgam of sounds in this habitat, Xenakis creates an atmosphere that seems both profoundly sacred and industrial at the same time.
A video was created to accompany tonight's performance, based on Xenakis's pitch and amplitude sketches shown earlier image 3. Four video tracks in different hues were derived from the 4 distinct audio tracks, so as to create a visual representation of what is heard. The video tracks were mixed according to the same intensities as the audio tracks, while the waveforms of the sound were used to create all visual elements.
In order to create a visual continuum, the waveforms were transformed and overlaid on top of each other by a predefined library of mathematical transformations.
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