STÉPHAN AUBÉ IANNIS XENAKIS: REBONDS B (2004)

Director: Stéphan Aubé

Year: 2004

Time: 15 mins

Music

Iannis Xenakis

Pedro Carneiro

Eye of Sound: A very short but interesting documentary following the recording of Pedro Carneiro's interpretation of Xenakis' Okho, Psappha and Rebonds, three highly demanding pieces for percussion. The first part is a recording of a performance of Rebonds B in a Parisian church. The second section offers a brief insight into the recording process of such pieces, exploring technical and artistic issues surrounding the production of Carneiro's interpretation. Differences between recording and performing are briefly addressed, centering on the need for the creation of dynamics and contrasts that are unreachable in the performance hall. The figure of the producer, so often neglected outside the field of pop music, is highlighted before turning on to short statements about Xenakis' music, its mathematical apparatus and its profoundly physical nature.

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ANTON CABALERO XENAKIS' POLYTOPE II DE CLUNY (2008)

Director: Anton Cabalero

Year: 2008

Time: 24 mins

Music: Iannis Xenakis

Eye of Sound: Following the enormous success of Polytope I, Xenakis was invited to conceive a new audiovisual immersion in Paris for the Autumn Theater Festival in 1973-74. Xenakis constructed a spectacle of multiple mirrors, intersecting laser beams, strobing lights and, of course, a multi-channel sonic torrent under which the spectators would be immersed. Cabalero's work tries to reconstruct some aspects of the event but also of the creative process behind it. Editing photographs, notes and blueprints to the electroacoustic trembles of Polytope II, Cabalero allows us a glimpse of the event while being aware of its reconstructed character. 

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