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Old 07-16-2017, 09:54 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by rostasi View Post
that follow with its modal serialism derived from Messiaen. You can hear how he took
eight fixed pitches and assigned Fibonacci-based durations along with the glissandi
that is so familiar to his works thereafter. Also, you might notice the lack of vibrato.
This too is a good thing to note, I remember reading in a Xenakis-overview book about this. The whole "limited modes of transposition" definitely had a influence on Iannis' later development of "Sieves". So meeting it back to the earlier pieces, confirms how I've always seen Xenakis' aesthetic; as an amalgamation of a lot of these concepts/techniques and a stylistic development forward!
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