Iannis Xenakis / refurbishment / score animated / live

from video description:
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Visual Score created by Amenity Space, conducted by Nicholas Kok and performed by Psappha at the Fuse Festival, Leeds 2009. The event was called Arborescent, and inspired by the work of highly influential architect and composer, Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001). Xenakis' practice was inherently multi-disciplinary, working on the principle that an artistic expression can be realised mathematically in any artistic medium. He represented his ideas through drawings (referring to them to as 'arborescences'), which he famously used as non-traditional, graphic scores for orchestral recital.

Amenity Space have reinterpretted the format to create the score called REFURBISHMENT. This will be perfomed by the Psappha orchestra at the Howard Assembly rooms on May 2nd 2009 as part of the Leeds Fuse Festival.

This score deconstructs the recently refurbished Howard Assembly rooms in Leeds. The space was documented using photographs and drawings and the media organised into a sequence of events.
The score comprises six different materials and building components from the space. The audio interpretation allows the listener to reconstruct a sonic interpretation of the space.

The six materials & building components are:

1. Nosing studs from the balcony steps.
2. Windows.
3. Low level heating pipes.
4. Ceiling Panels.
5. High Level Balustrading.
6. Timber Grain.

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Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis





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The Xenakis-Emulator is an audiovisual adaptation of two key works of architect/composer Iannis Xenakis - the composition "Metastasseis" and the facade for the monastery "La Tourette" by master architect Le Corbusier. Kammerbauer + Schnellboegl created a synergetic digital animation of an interpretation of the facade and a music adaptation. The facade strips, which reflect the "Glissando"-motif of "Metastasseis", float in an abstract space, followed by a vertical strip that "plays" the music adaptation by Kammerbauer + Schnellboegl in realtime and synchronous with the vertical facade elements. Detailed info at xenakis-emulator


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