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Iannis Xenakis

Iannix Xenakis , composer

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  • "Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal."
  • "The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry."


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