Days: Tuesday, May 24th Wednesday, May 25th Thursday, May 26th Friday, May 27th Saturday, May 28th Sunday, May 29th
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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 (6, 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Vocal ensemble from NKUA, Vaia Papayiannopoulou direction (Giorgos Doussis preparation): three unpublished works from the young Xenakis: EPON student anthem (ca 1943), Η περιστέρα Ειρήνη (La Colombe de la paix, 1952, alto, mixed choir), Σταμάτης Κατωτάκης, καθιστό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
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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
| 11:30 | What's the use of music? |
| 12:00 | Musical enunciation: the modes of temporal existence in Iannis Xenakis |
| 12:30 | Atrées: Is it a name or… something else? |
| 13:30 | Control or Chance? Considerations of Xenakien compositional strategies in contrast Cageian approaches |
| 14:00 | Waves and Architecture in Xenakis’s Jonchaies |
| 13:30 | Nomos alpha by Iannis Xenakis and the problem of death and destiny |
| 14:00 | Ekphrasis in the work of Iannis Xenakis |
| 16:15 | Workshop with Participants: About Iannis Xenakis´ External Conflicts |
| 18:00 | Immersive landscape recomposing the sound of a public square |
| 16:15 | Insect Sound ecology and stochastic models |
| 18:00 | Workshop: Synchronized spatial performance of graphics scores and computer assisted composition with MaxScore and Drawsocket |
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)
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| 09:00 | 16-Track GENDYN. A multichannel resynthesis of GENDY3 |
| 09:30 | The other Room. The influence of Iannis Xenakis on room acoustics (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Rethinking/revisiting the Gendy model from the perspective of noise transformation as a compositional method PRESENTER: Johan van Kreij |
| 10:30 | Lessons from Xenakis on audification and sample-level machine learning techniques |
| 11:30 | Towards Morphogenesis: The Growth Form in Xenakis’s Light |
| 12:00 | Making Mankind resonate through Time : The Xenakis’ undulating glass panes |
| 16:15 | XAS DECODED |
| 18:00 | Workshop: ‘Approaches to performing Nomos alpha and Kottos by Iannis Xenakis’ |
| 16:15 | Workshop rendering embodied experience into multimodal data: concepts, tools and applications for Xenakis' piano performance |
| 18:00 | The Situationist Polytope |
Plektó (1993, sextuor)
Kaï (1995, nonet)
Ikhoor (1978, string trio)
Akanthos (1977, soprano and octuor)
dissoArt; Johannes Kalitzke, conductor; Ilektra Platiopoulou, mezzo-soprano
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| 09:00 | Creative mathematics: randomness, indeterminacy, unpredictability in music and architecture |
| 09:30 | BaXen. When Xenakis invites himself to a school of architecture. |
| 09:00 | Pour la Paix. Analysing the piece and preparing its performance |
| 09:30 | Making possible the impossible: performative ideas and solutions in some Xenaki's percussion works |
| 10:00 | The “enveloping spatial relationship”: some perspectives relating on Xenakian architectural work |
| 10:30 | Space, Rhythm, and Architecture: Atmospheres in Works of Iannis Xenakis |
| 10:00 | Xenakis in Indonesia: influences in the composition of Jonchaies (1977) and Pléïades (1978) |
| 10:30 | The score of Rythmes sur Tabla, a "key document" in the work of Iannis Xenakis ? |
Project Report
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)
Catering
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| 11:30 | Polytope de Cluny: towards a reconstitution |
| 12:00 | The Narrative of the Mycenae Polytope |
| 12:30 | Xenakis' Oresteia: a reconstructed theatre |
| 13:30 | Xenakis and Revolution: A Critique of Aesthetic Autonomy |
| 14:00 | The Xenakis case under international law. Aspects of nationality, transnationality, vulnerability and international responsibility |
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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)