Iannis Xenakis
Electro-Acoustic Music
Nonesuch (US) 197x
H-71246 (LP)
sleeve : EX(IN SHRINK, some small and slightly spots.)
media : EX-/EX-(light surface noises.)
This 1970 album features works by Iannis Xenakis, a unique composer who participated in the anti-Nazi German resistance movement during World War II and studied under architect Le Corbusier after defecting to France, where he developed his talents as an architect and musician in a dual role. The 21 minutes and 56 seconds of side A was composed at the Music Laboratory of the French National Radio, and is an astonishing flood of metallic percussion-like sounds that could be described as the first noise music. B1 is a prototype of the work created for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, and B3 is a wave of minute electronic sounds.
B1: Concret P-H II
B3: Orient-Occident III