Iannis Xenakis Professions : ComposerBorn : May 29, 1922Died : February 4, 2001 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Iannis Xenakis The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary. The sensual shock must be just as forceful as when one hears a clap of thunder or looks into a bottomless abyss Iannis Xenakis trainingsensualspecial Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one. Iannis Xenakis designmusicalmen To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of pure logic but also the "logic" of emotions and intuition. My musical techniques, although often rigorous in their internal structure, leave many openings through which the most complex and mysterious factors of the intelligence may penetrate. Iannis Xenakis intuitionmusicmean Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal. Iannis Xenakis single-mommeanart Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear? Iannis Xenakis disappearbornrealizing The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry. Iannis Xenakis constructionmusicallimits The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event. Iannis Xenakis summerrainsong Similar Authors Igor Stravinsky composer Irving Berlin composer Brian Ferneyhough composer Bryce Dessner composer Bradley Joseph composer Boudleaux Bryant composerAll Authors
