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Iannis Xenakis exposed at...From January 15th to April 8th Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary will explore the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). A leading figure in twentieth century music, Xenakis was trained as a civil engineer, then became an architect and developed revolutionary designs while working with Le Corbusier. Comprised of over 60 documents created between 1953 and 1984, this will be the first North American exhibition dedicated to Xenakis’s original works on paper. Included will be rarely-seen hand-rendered scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and graphic scores. Curated by Sharon Kanach and Carey Lovelace.
More about this exhibition at: www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm
Nouritza Matossian interviewedOn September 2nd, Nouritza Matossian, biographer and close friend of the composer, was invited on BBC 2 for a talk about the young years of Xenakis, in Greece and then in France where he worked for famous architect Le Corbusier before devoting to music. You can also hear briefly the voice of Xenakis himself, explaining the strong link, in his life and work, beetween architecture and music.