XENAKIS 22: CENTENARY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
This symposium is aimed at celebrating the work of composer and architect Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) on the centenary of his birth. Xenakis’s work has not ceased to attract the interest of a wide range of artists and researchers. A large body of related work, artistic and academic, has been developing constantly in recent decades, ranging from archival study to artistic reworking of Xenakis’s original ideas. We are putting forward the idea of an interdisciplinary field of Xenakis Studies, in fruitful dialogue with other fields, including those beyond music or architecture themselves. It is our hope that such events as this one will foster a long-term symbiotic relationship between the arts and academic research.
THE PROGRAM
Tuesday, May 24th
17:45-22:30 Session 1: Xenakis during Resistance and December 1944 battle. Historical promenade, and historico-musical evening.
Co-organized with ASKI (Contemporary Social History Archives), EfA (École française d'Athènes) and National Technical University of Athens
18:00. Meeting at École française d'Athènes (4, Didotou)
Greetings from Véronique Chankowski, directrice de l'École française d'Athènes
Lucile Arnoux-Farnoux: The École française d'Athènes during December 1944 battle
Historical promenade where Xenakis was wounded
Manos Avgeridis, Orestis Karamanlis
20:00. Historico-musical evening at National Technical University of Athens (Polytechneio)
Greetins from Prof. Panagiotis Tournikiotis, dean
Ensemble vocal Soli Tutti, Denis Gautheyrie direction: Nuits (1967-68, 12 voices)
Vocal ensemble from NKUA, Vaia Papayiannopoulou direction (Giorgos Doussis preparation): three unpublished works from the young Xenakis: EPON student anthem (ca 1943), Η περιστέρα Ειρήνη (La Colombe de la paix, 1952, alto, mixed choir), Σταμάτης Κατωτάκης, καθιστό (Stamatis Katotakis, chanson de table, 1953, voice, male choir)
Historical presentations: Vaggelis Karamanolakis, Menelaos Charalambidis, Giorgos Petropoulos
Musicological presentations: Makis Solomos
Special guest: Mâkhi Xenakis
More information about these historical events
CHAIR:
Anastasia Georgaki
LOCATION: National Technical University of Athens, Room Kaftantzoglou
22:30-23:30 Session 2: Buffet
LOCATION: National Technical University of Athens, Room Kaftantzoglou
Wednesday, May 25th
09:30-11:00 Session 3: Official opening of the symposium and concert
Greetings from Nicholas Yatromanolakis, Deputy Minister of Culture and Sports, Greece
Greetings from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens:
Prof. Meletios-Athanassios Dimopoulos, Rector
Prof. Achilleas Chaldaiakis, Dean of the School of Philosophy
Greetings from chair of the symposium:
Prof. Anastasia Georgaki, NKUA
Prof. Makis Solomos, Université Paris 8
Mâkhi Xenakis, Les Amis de Xenakis
Concert:
Zyia (1952)
Aggeliki Kathariou, voice; Natalia Geraki, flute; Apostolos Palios, piano
Evryali (1973)
À r. (Hommage à Ravel) (1987)
Pavlos Antoniadis, piano
LOCATION: Great Hall
11:30-13:00 Session 4A: Music Theory and Analysis 1
CHAIR:
Dimitris Exarchos
LOCATION: "Ioannis Drakopoulos" amphitheatre
11:30Benoît Gibson
The Use of Stochastic Distributions in the Instrumental Works of Iannis Xenakis: Between Chance and Intuition.
12:00Sokratis Georgiadis
Contrapuntal procedures and aspects of conflict in the work of Iannis Xenakis
12:30Charles Klippel Neimog
Organizing just intonation pitches through Xenakis’ Sieves and Wilson’s CPS
11:30-13:00 Session 4B: Aesthetics 1
CHAIR:
Mihu Iliescu
LOCATION: "Alkis Argyrdiadis" amphitheatre
11:30Peter Nelson
What's the use of music?
12:00Gustavo Bonin
Musical enunciation: the modes of temporal existence in Iannis Xenakis
12:30Nikos Ioakeim
Atrées: Is it a name or… something else?
13:30-14:30 Session 5A: Music Theory and Analysis 2
CHAIR:
Benoît Gibson
LOCATION: "Ioannis Drakopoulos" amphitheatre
13:30James Harley
Control or Chance? Considerations of Xenakien compositional strategies in contrast Cageian approaches
14:00Oren Boneh
Waves and Architecture in Xenakis’s Jonchaies
13:30-14:30 Session 5B: Aesthetics 2
CHAIR:
Iakovos Steinhauer
LOCATION: "Alkis Argyrdiadis" amphitheatre
13:30Alfia Nakipbekova
Nomos alpha by Iannis Xenakis and the problem of death and destiny
14:00Thomas Metcalf
Ekphrasis in the work of Iannis Xenakis
16:15-19:30 Session 6A: Workshops 1
LOCATION: Room 209, School of Philosophy
16:15Dietrich Koeppen
Workshop with Participants: About Iannis Xenakis´ External Conflicts
18:00Gilles Paté and Cecile Regnault
Immersive landscape recomposing the sound of a public square
16:15-19:30 Session 6B: Workshops 2
LOCATION: Room 917, School of Philosophy
16:15Miles Warrington, Daniel Brown, Natalia Kotsani and Anastasia Georgaki
Insect Sound ecology and stochastic models
18:00Rama Gottfried and Georg Hajdu
Workshop: Synchronized spatial performance of graphics scores and computer assisted composition with MaxScore and Drawsocket
20:30-22:00 Session 7: Concert at Odeio Athinon (Athens Conservatoire)
Iannis XENAKIS: Orient Occident (1960, 4-channel musique concrète)
Panos ALEXIADIS
AGF
Iannis XENAKIS: Voyage Absolu des Unari vers Andomède (1989, 8-channel UPIC music)
PAN DAIJING
(spatialization of Xenakis' pieces: Paul Goutmann)
LOCATION: Athens Conservatoire (Odeion Athinon)
Thursday, May 26th
09:00-11:00 Session 8A: Space and Electroacoustic Music
CHAIR:
James Harley
LOCATION: "Ioannis Drakopoulos" amphitheatre
09:00Peter Hoffmann
16-Track GENDYN. A multichannel resynthesis of GENDY3
09:30Martin Supper
The other Room. The influence of Iannis Xenakis on room acoustics (abstract)
10:00Jeyong Jung and Johan van Kreij
Rethinking/revisiting the Gendy model from the perspective of noise transformation as a compositional method
PRESENTER: Johan van Kreij
10:30Ryo Ikeshiro
Lessons from Xenakis on audification and sample-level machine learning techniques
09:00-11:00 Session 8B: Analysis and Theory 3, influence
CHAIR:
Alfia Nakipbekova
LOCATION: "Alkis Argyrdiadis" amphitheatre
09:00Stéphan Schaub
Xenakis’ thinking about / in musical composition : an analysis of Metastasis’s central section
09:30Danilo Rossetti, Micael Antunes and Jonatas Manzolli
Mikka “S”, from Micro to Macrocomposition and Perception: Symbolic and Audio-feature Psychoacoustic Analyzes
10:00Elena Ferapontova
The features of the instrumental part in vocal and instrumental compositions by Iannis Xenakis
10:30Nicole Russell
Xenakis' Influence on Electronica
11:30-13:00 Session 9A: Aesthetics 3, performance 1, space 2
CHAIR:
Panagiotis Parthenios
LOCATION: "Ioannis Drakopoulos" amphitheatre
11:30Mihu Iliescu
XENAKIS' CONCEPTION OF CREATIVITY AND THE NOTION OF EMERGENCE
12:00Pavlos Antoniadis, Jean-François Jégo, Aurélien Duval, Frédéric Bevilacqua and Stella Paschalidou
Rendering embodied experience into multimodal data: concepts, tools and applications for Xenakis' piano performance
12:30Paul Goutmann and Alain Bonardi
From stereophonic to spatial audio processing: Voyage absolu des Unari vers Andromède by Iannis Xenakis
11:30-12:30 Session 9B: Architecture 1
CHAIR:
Kiourtsoglou Elisavet
LOCATION: "Alkis Argyrdiadis" amphitheatre
11:30Yin Yu
Towards Morphogenesis: The Growth Form in Xenakis’s Light
12:00Mathias Schopfer and Emmanuel Stump
Making Mankind resonate through Time : The Xenakis’ undulating glass panes
13:30-14:30 Session 10: Discussion with François-Bernard Mâche
LOCATION: "Ioannis Drakopoulos" amphitheatre
16:15-19:30 Session 11A: Workshops 3
LOCATION: Room 209, School of Philosophy
16:15Pantelis Lykoudis
XAS DECODED
18:00Alfia Nakipbekova
Workshop: ‘Approaches to performing Nomos alpha and Kottos by Iannis Xenakis’
16:15-19:30 Session 11B: Workshops 4
LOCATION: Room 742, School of Philosophy
16:15Pavlos Antoniadis, Jean-François Jégo, Aurélien Duval, Frédéric Bevilacqua and Stella Paschalidou
Workshop rendering embodied experience into multimodal data: concepts, tools and applications for Xenakis' piano performance
18:00Lorenzo Prati
The Situationist Polytope
20:30-22:00 Session 12: Concert at Greek National Opera
Plektó (1993, sextuor)
Kaï (1995, nonet)
Ikhoor (1978, string trio)
Akanthos (1977, soprano and octuor)
dissoArt; Johannes Kalitzke, conductor; Ilektra Platiopoulou, mezzo-soprano
LOCATION: Greek National Opera (Ethniki lyriki skini)
Friday, May 27th
09:00-10:00 Session 13A: Architecture 2
CHAIR:
Kostas Paparrigopoulos
LOCATION: "Ioannis Drakopoulos" amphitheatre
09:00Leda Dimitriadi
Creative mathematics: randomness, indeterminacy, unpredictability in music and architecture
09:30Cecile Regnault
BaXen. When Xenakis invites himself to a school of architecture.
09:00-10:00 Session 13B: Performance 2
CHAIR:
Pavlos Antoniadis
LOCATION: "Alkis Argyrdiadis" amphitheatre
09:00Ulysse Del Ghingaro and Makis Solomos
Pour la Paix. Analysing the piece and preparing its performance
09:30Fernando Chaib and Leonardo Labrada
Making possible the impossible: performative ideas and solutions in some Xenaki's percussion works
10:00-11:00 Session 14A: Architecture 3
CHAIR:
Leda Dimitriadi
LOCATION: "Ioannis Drakopoulos" amphitheatre
10:00Séverine Bridoux-Michel
The “enveloping spatial relationship”: some perspectives relating on Xenakian architectural work
10:30Irina Oznobikhina
Space, Rhythm, and Architecture: Atmospheres in Works of Iannis Xenakis
10:00-11:00 Session 14B: Archival Researches
CHAIR:
Stéphan Schaub
LOCATION: "Alkis Argyrdiadis" amphitheatre
10:00Ronan Gil de Morais
Xenakis in Indonesia: influences in the composition of Jonchaies (1977) and Pléïades (1978)
10:30Zoé Declercq
The score of Rythmes sur Tabla, a "key document" in the work of Iannis Xenakis ?
11:30-13:00 Session 15A: Post-Xenakian Proposals 2
CHAIR:
Peter Hoffmann
LOCATION: "Ioannis Drakopoulos" amphitheatre
11:30Nicolas Tzortzis
Expanding the rhythmic writing of Iannis Xenakis in my works of the 2010's
12:00Nicoleta Chatzopoulou and Panagiotis Parthenios
Site-specificity and Sonic Grains: An approach to sound synthesis by mapping point clouds of a specific site using granular synthesis techniques.
12:30Oswaldo Emiddio Vasquez Hadjilyra
Towards a Topological and Materialist Synthesis of Sound
11:30-13:00 Session 15B: Computationnal Models
CHAIR:
Ioannis Zannos
LOCATION: "Alkis Argyrdiadis" amphitheatre
11:30Daniel Brown, Natalia Kotsani and Anastasia Georgaki
Stochastic Modeling of the Cicada Chorus
12:00Pauxy Gentil-Nunes, Luan Simões and Petrucio Viana
An attempt at extending Xenakis’ compositional design of Herma through computational tools
12:30Serkan Sevilgen
Xenakis’s Matrix to Image Matrix: A Sonification Method Inspired by Achorripsis
13:30-14:30 Session 16: Project reports and open discussion
Project Report
LOCATION: "Ioannis Drakopoulos" amphitheatre
15:00-17:30 Session 17: Trip to Nafplio
19:30-22:00 Session 18: Opening at Nafplio, meeting with Mâkhi Xenakis,concert, small reception
Greetings
the District of the Peloponnese
Mr. Dimitri Kostouros, Mayor of Nafplion
Prof. Athanasios Katsis, Rector of the University of Peloponnese
Prof. Marina Kotzamani, Chair of the Department of Digital and Performing Arts of the University of Peloponnese
Meeting with Mâkhi Xenakis
Concert
Stefanos Thomopoulos, piano:
-Herma (1961-61)
-Evyali (1973)
Ensemble vocal Soli Tutti, Denis Gautheyrie direction:
-Olivier Messiaen: Troisième Rechant ("éventail déployé") (1948)
-Nuits (1967-68)
LOCATION: Nafplio, Vouleftiko
Saturday, May 28th
09:30-11:00 Session 19: Polytopes 1
CHAIR:
Marina Kotzamani
LOCATION: Nafplio, Vouleftiko
09:30Sahereh Astaneh
Reconstruction and interpretation of ancient history to build a national identity. Focus on the Polytopes de Persépolis by Xenakis (1971)
10:00Laurentiu Beldean
Levels of Multimedia Rhetoric in POLYTOPE DE PERSEPOLIS (1971). Defining Cyber-world Categories through Some Registers of Philosophy & Scientific Aesthetics
10:30Mehdi Taheri
Persepolis Polytope: Resolving Fictitious Attributions from a Persianate Perspective
11:30-13:00 Session 20: Polytopes 2, stage work, space
CHAIR:
Alexandros Efklidis
LOCATION: Nafplio, Vouleftiko
11:30Pierre Carré
Polytope de Cluny: towards a reconstitution
12:00Marko Slavíček
The Narrative of the Mycenae Polytope
12:30Anastasia Chintzoglou
Xenakis' Oresteia: a reconstructed theatre
13:30-14:30 Session 21: Politics
CHAIR:
Makis Solomos
LOCATION: Nafplio, Vouleftiko
13:30Ramón del Buey Cañas
Xenakis and Revolution: A Critique of Aesthetic Autonomy
14:00Despina Sinou
The Xenakis case under international law. Aspects of nationality, transnationality, vulnerability and international responsibility
15:45-20:00 Session 22: Workshops 5
LOCATION: Nafplio, Vouleftiko
15:45Iannis Zannos, Stella Dimitrakopoulou and Hari Marini
Connecting Xenakis' work to cyberphysical performance in dance education and artistic practice
17:15Katerina El Raheb, Pavlos Antoniadis, Marina Stergiou, Iannis Zannos, Pablo Palacio, Maria Roussou and Dimitris Batsis
Mapping materialities: Digital embodied interactions with Iannis Xenakis’ work
18:45Andrew Watts and Davor Vincze
Algorithmic Composition with Max/MSP and OpenMusic
Sunday, May 29th
09:00-12:00 Session 23: Trip to Mykines
Archeological site and Αrchaeological, museum, guidance, Prof. Christofilis Maggidis (Mycenaen Foundation).
Presentation of the Polytope de Mycènes by Marina Kotzamani and Marco Slavíček
12:00-13:00 Reception brunch at the Melathron of the Mycenean Foundation( Mycenean Foundation, Municipality of Argos)
13:00-15:00 Session 24: Trip to Epidavros
15:00-18:00 Session 25: Return to Athens
The symposium is organised by
In collaboration with
With the support of
Archetype team - 20/12/2024
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