I did not get to know Xenakis myself, but many people who studied and worked with him. Regarding his electronic music, there is an anecdote told by Takemitsu, were he observed that in spite of having planned many things very meticulously, he would then listen to parts and change things on the spot.
Anyway, you probably might know this, but here you can check his book "Formalized Music" which describes some of his ways of working over the years: https://monoskop.org/Xenakis On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Robert Patterson < [email protected]> wrote: > Earlier I posted a question about getting musicxml out of descendants of > the programs that Xenakis used for stochastic processing. But a more basic > question is, does anyone know how Xenakis himself worked? Did he simply > listen to the electronic output and transcribe it for instruments? Or was > there some more methodical process? > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
