Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary
JANUARY 15-APRIL8 at the Drawing Center (35 Wooster St.) (Opening JANUARY 14, 6-8PM)
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). One of the most important figures in twentieth-century music, Xenakis originally trained as an engineer and was also known as an architect, developing iconic designs while working with Le Corbusier in the 1950s. This North American premiere of Xenakis’s visual work is comprised of samples of his pioneering graphic musings, architectural plans, compelling preparatory mathematical renderings, and pre-compositional sketches—in all, nearly 100 documents created between 1953 and 1984. The exhibition is accompanied by an exciting schedule of public programs, concerts, and symposia around New York City. Co-curated by Sharon Kanach and Carey Lovelace, the exhibition will travel to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (June 17 – October 17, 2010) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (November 7, 2010 – February 13, 2011).
(ok, so there’s this really intense schedule of events to go along with the exhibition— so here it is)
Public Programs
January 15, 7–10pm, performances every half hour
Electronic Music Foundation: Poème Electronique, a virtual-reality re-creation of the Phillips Pavilion, Brussels World’s Fair, 1958
Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South (INCREDIBLE!!!!)
January 19, 7:30pm
A Xenakis Triple Gala - concert, book launch, and inauguration of The Xenakis Project of the Americas
Elebash Hall at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue
January 28–30
Xenakis: Past, Present, Future, colloquium with The Brooklyn Experimental Media Center and The Xenakis Project of the Americas
Pfizer Auditorium/Dibner Building at Polytechnic Institute of New York University, 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn
February 5, 6:45–8:30pm
Concert by JACK Quartet of Xenakis’s complete String Quartets
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue
February 6, 7pm and February 13, 20, and 27, 2–8pm
Daniel Teige performs selections of Xenakis’s electronic music
Diapason Gallery, 882 Third Avenue, 10th Floor, Brooklyn
February 21, 3–5:30pm
Iannis Xenakis: The Percussion Music, panel discussion and performance
Frederick Loewe Theatre – NYU Steinhardt Percussion Program, 35 West 4th Street
February 28, 8pm
Xenakis and Japan, a music/dance event produced by Electronic Music Foundation, choreography and production design by Luca Veggetti
Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South
March 16, 7pm
French Transmission, a concert by the Montreal-based ensemble
Elebash Hall at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue
March 24, 7pm and 9pm
Film Screening of Something Rich and Strange, Orient-Occident: Images d’une Exposition, Charisma X and La Légende d’Eer
92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street
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here’s an example of his music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yge7GNl5p_k
