Musiques formelles: nouveaux principes formels de composition musicale

1963

Book

La Revue musicale, nos. 253–254, Éditions Richard-Masse, Paris
First edition
Paperback
232 pages
10.5" tall

The Library The Listening Room

Description

Musiques formelles, Iannis Xenakis’s first book, came out in October 1963 as a double issue of La Revue musicale. In it the composer sets out the mathematics behind his music of 1956 to 1962: probability, Markov chains, game theory and symbolic logic. Chapter IV describes the program he ran on an IBM 7090 to compute the scores of his “ST” works, including ST/10, which was played for the press at IBM France in Paris in 1962.

Iannis Xenakis: Polla ta dhina / St/10=1-080262 / Akrata / Achorripsis by Iannis Xenakis, 1969 (ca)

Iannis Xenakis: Polla ta dhina / St/10=1-080262 / Akrata / Achorripsis Iannis Xenakis1969 (ca) Sound

Language D'un Ordinateur - Hee Saw Dhuh Kaet by Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs), 1963

Language D'un Ordinateur - Hee Saw Dhuh Kaet Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs)1963 Sound

rot 11 - Monolog der Terry Jo by Max Bense, 1963

rot 11 - Monolog der Terry Jo Max Bense1963 Prose/Poetry

Exhibition Catalog, Robert Fraser Gallery, 1963 by Harold Cohen, 1963

Exhibition Catalog, Robert Fraser Gallery, 1963 Harold Cohen1963 Mixed Media

Double Harold Cohen1963 Painting

The Logic of Saint Anslem by Desmond Paul Henry, 1963

The Logic of Saint Anslem Desmond Paul Henry1963 Machine Drawing

Computer Speech – Hee Saw Dhuh Kaet by Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs), 1963

Computer Speech – Hee Saw Dhuh Kaet Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs)1963 Sound

Untitled from Drawing Machine Two by Desmond Paul Henry, 1963

Untitled from Drawing Machine Two Desmond Paul Henry1963 Machine Drawing