Orient-Occident. From the film version to the concert version

Makis Solomos (1)

1 MUSIDANSE - Esthétique, musicologie, danse et création musicale

One of the first electroacoustic music histories, published in 1972, presented Xenakis' Orient-Occident (the concert version) as a masterpiece of electroacoustic music . Why did the author choose Orient-Occident among Xenakis' other early electroacoustic compositions? Probably because it is the least like Xenakis: compared to the granular works (Concret PH, Analogique B) and to the continuum ones (Diamorphoses, Bohor), Orient-Occident sounds very much like musique concrète. And this is perhaps due to the fact that, in the beginning, the piece was not intended for the concert hall, but was conceived as a "functional" project: film music.

Domaines: Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène

Makis Solomos. Orient-Occident. From the film version to the concert version. Iannis Xenakis: Das elektroakustische Werk, 2006, Germany. p. 118-134. ⟨hal-00770204⟩