Iannis Xenakis

🌐 Primary Sources & Official Portals

• Friends of Iannis Xenakis Official Archive: https://www.iannis-xenakis.org/
• UPIC Graphic Composition System Overview: https://www.iannis-xenakis.org/en/upic/

Description

Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) was a Greek-French composer, music theorist, and architect. A major pioneer of electronic and stochastic music, Xenakis integrated architectural geometry, probability theory, and computer systems into music, creating the UPIC graphic tablet system to synthesize sound directly from drawn visual forms.

Related Entities

• le-corbusier

Related Concepts

• upic-system
• graphic-sound-synthesis
• stochastic-composition
• sonification-of-drawing

Mentions in Source

• “With the UPIC system, Xenakis enabled composers to draw music directly: a pen stroke on an electromagnetic tablet was instantly converted into acoustic waveform synthesis.” — Iannis Xenakis and UPIC