Iannis Xenakis - Reverse Chronological Catalogue

Part V of Louis Andriessen's La Commedia. Soloists: Lindsey Kesselman, Cristina Zavalloni, and Andrew Sauvageau. Children's Chorus of Washington, Third Practice, Great Noise Ensemble, Armando Bayolo, conducting.

GNE 2014 April 6

La Commedia: Lucce Aeterna

Performed by Loadbang at Divergent Studios. 
For Bb Trumpet, Trombone, Baritone, and Bass Clarinet.
Thank you Andy Kozar, Will Lang, Adrián Sandí, and Jeff Gavetz for the premiere of this piece.

anything goes nowhere

CVS
music by Scott Wollschleger
recorded by loadbang

The complete work of CVS can be found on loadbang's, Plays Well With Others, released on New Focus Recordings:
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/loadbang-plays-well-with-others

CVS (excerpt)

performed by loadbang

Jeff Gavett, baritone
Adrian Sandi, bass clarinet
Andy Kozar, trumpets
William Lang, trombone

Tombeau

Yu Kuwabara, composer
Performed by Alarm Will Sound

Live at the 2021 Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 29, 2021
From the composer:
I have always been trying to find an answer which intermediates in-between some things or some contexts; sometimes in-between the past and the present, in-between Japan and the rest of the world, or in-between language, sound, and music. Besides, the decades of my research and collaborations on traditional Japanese arts and music brought me a great question: what time and space mean for me. Therefore, over the last years, I mainly focus on investigating how to create form or time in my personal way. Nested time is a specific time field that I have defined. Through repeated ritardandi—slowing down from a constant tempo to twice the tempo—time is structured in a nested manner.

Nested Time

SUNSOAKED
for trumpet, tuba, violin, violoncello and electronics | 2022

Written for and performed by Ensemble MusikFabrik
Live recording, April 8, 2022
Recorded by Seth Torres
Mix and Mastering by Murat Çolak
Artwork by Nazlı Cengiz

SUNSOAKED (2022) / Ensemble MusikFabrik

"In the Waves" was inspired by the Gauguin painting of the same name that I recently saw at the Cleveland Museum of Art, shortly after hearing the Cleveland Orchestra play Debussy's "La Mer".  Both resonated with me deeply, because the ocean is a major source of energy for me.  The plaque next to the painting says this work of art is "a metaphor for a modern European woman forsaking civilization and abandoning herself to her natural, primitive instincts."  Since how society is currently functioning makes less and less sense to me, most days I feel like doing what the woman in the painting is doing...taking action and surrounding herself only with what is beautiful, necessary, and true.  I imagine this music capturing the moments that take place right before she flings herself into the sea.  

Deep thanks to the NEXT Festival for Emerging Artists and Peter Askim - a colleague, friend, and a wonderful source of moral support many times since we have known each other and during my pivot in becoming a composer.

"In the Waves" for String Orchestra

Single Red Flower
I: a few warbles for the little dead
II: the big alive, feeling small
completed July 2022

Performed November 20 2022 by Standing Wave at St. George the Martyr, Toronto, ON. Part of "Ex Machina" presented by New Music Concerts.

ABOUT
“single Red flower” was written shortly before, during, and after the death of my two rats Parsley and Sage. They were my pandemic companions, providing much love and friendship during two awful years of lockdown in a small Toronto basement apartment. The two movements are threaded with residual emotion from their passing. 

Having never dealt with losing my own pet before – let alone two in quick succession - I was mystified, touched, and overwhelmed with the rituals of their little deaths: laying them in the cage for their cagemates to process their death; picking out a flower pot, soil, and seeds in which to bury them; and laying them to rest in a backyard rental in which we would soon be leaving. Only one plant bloomed from the planter, a beautiful red flower of a species I have never seen before. 

While I often try to keep my emotions out of my music, this piece inadvertently became strange, small, and ritualistic, reflecting these experiences. Little, quiet sounds are brought to the forefront and amplified to fill the space in the same way that little things can fill our hearts beyond bearing.

single Red flower (sextet)

Parallax (2013)

Plektó (1993) by Iannis Xenakis

Performed by Non Sequitur:
Ned McGowan, flute
Benjamin Fingland, clarinet
Gabriel Bolkosky, violin
Ha-Yang Kim, cello
Nathan Davis, percussion
Blair McMillen, piano

From album "Non Sequitur" 
Karnatic Lab Records

Non Sequitur

Plektó by Iannis Xenakis

Keren - Iannis Xenakis

Compassion: A Journey of the Spirit

Xenakis: Hunem-Iduhey

Unter der Leitung von Johannes Kalitzke widmet sich das Ensemble Resonanz den Werken für Streichorchester des zeitgenössischen Komponisten Iannis Xenakis.

Xenakis Music for Strings

Iannis Xenakis: »Voile« for 20 strings (1995)

œnm . österreichisches ensemble für neue musik
iannis xenakis: jalons

johannes kalitzke, conductor
recorded live at the ultraschall festival, berlin 2008


iannis xenakis: jalons

I composed this work a year after hearing of the death of Iannis Xenakis. The music of Xenakis has meant a lot to me and I wanted to pay homage to the late composer.  

The work is dedicated to my former saxophone professor Lawrence Gwozdz.  

The performers are:
Soprano sax: Marc Ballard (of Duo Fujin)
Alto: Brian Kauth
Tenor: Chris Parkin
Baritone: Noah Madison

Canon In Memoriam Iannis Xenakis for Saxophone Quartet (2002)

IlolliPop. Alex Paxton - Trombone and Composition.
Ensemble Modern. Conducted my Enno Poppe. (25mins)
CRASHKURS HUMAN__MACHINE

Illolipop. Excerpt. Alex Paxton. Ensemble Modern

Avant-garde trombonist based in Brooklyn, but found all over the world. Check back for new tracks often, could be anything from Bach to weird improv.

Keren - Iannis Xenakis

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