Xenakis: Electronic Music, Vol. 1 - La Legende d'Eer

Iannis Xenakis

Overview

Conceptual artist Iannis Xenakis (who died in 2001) composed La Legende d'Eer, an electroacoustic work for seven-track tape, to commemorate the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1978. It featured scattered shards of orchestral sound and cacophonous noises. Xenakis ran the tape continuously for several months straight (in a loop) as an aural accompaniment to the visual splendor of Le Diatope, a massive convex architectural structure he designed and built, fitted with four lasers, 400 mirrors, and 1680 pulsating lights. In the late seventies, documentarist Bruno Rastoin edited hundreds of images of the initial creation into a single film, which forever preserves the memory of Xenakis's exhibit. That film is now available in the home video release Legende d'Eer. The program features a soundtrack remastered from the seven-track tapes originally used in the exhibition, and a bonus interview with Xenakis conducted by musicologist Harry Halbreich.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/10/2005
UPC:	0764593014898
Original Release:	2005
Source:	Mode
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[stereo, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	0:47:00
Sales rank:	64,706

Special Features

La Légende d'Eer is presented with Bruno Rastion's Film made of over 350 images from the original performance; Mastered for the original 7-track analogue tapes, with new surround and stereo mixes by Gerard Pape, Xenakis's associate and director of the CCMIX; Use of the original master tape restored almost 2 minutes and 30 secords to the piece, released here for the first time; 67-minute video interview of Xenakis in conversation with noted musicologist Harry Halbreich; 24-bit DTS 5.1 Surround Sound; Uncompressed 96 kHz/24-bit PCM Stereo mix; Essays by Makis Solomos and Bruno Rastoin