Iannis Xenakis - Mycenae Alpha (Audio + Score)

Iannis Xenakis - Mycenae Alpha, electroacoustic music (1978)

By 1977, Iannis Xenakis had developed the UPIC. Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu. Put simply, you drew on a tablet linked to a computer, which then produced sounds based on an X (duration) and Y (pitch) axis. In the late 70s, Xenakis’ sounds were limited to pretty raw wave forms being run through custom envelopes, but his work on the UPIC still revealed interesting new ways to think about scoring music. Watch the vid and it will all become clear. Mycenae-Alpha (1978), composed by iannis Xenakis on the UPIC system, presents an example of
the relationship between graphic image and sonic structure in electroacoustic music. The graphic score of
Mycenae-Alpha provides a basis for an analysis of the work’s form and a guide to its characteristic sonic
features.

[ProDuctions]

I feel like i just watched a documentry about bacteria invading the multiverse before the big band

[PhilipDaniel]

We love our graphic scores, don't we folks? When you're Xenakis, they let you do it.

[pianomanhere]

Love Xenakis' unabashed boldness in throwing even the most violently discordant sounds at us periodically, with subsequent easing and then reemergence in waves once again.

[jonathanmosebach]

If you've ever listened to noises from planets or outer space sounds... this sounds very similar to it!

[bsku]

Sometimes, I feel like I've listen to enough music to enjoy experimental music, and sometimes - like now - that feeling just completely vanishes lmfao

[EggBenis]

what is the score



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anyways good job I really appreciate it

[joshuabaucom]

Mycenae Alpha. Subtitle: "Giant insects orbiting a ponderous deflating balloon."

[colinhamilton]

Looking for patterns when there aren't predictable is you asking me or telling me??