Iannis Xenakis
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Les grandes répétitions: Hommage à Edgard Varèse
Apr 20, 1966Edgard Varèse died on 6 November 1965, a few days before the filming of the rehearsal of his work "Déserts" which he had to attend.
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Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko
Jan 01, 1991For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new, contemporary, orchestral electronic music; in solitude and beyond any commercial conventions or commitments. It is the first time that Zappa has allowed a film crew to study him during compositional work, actually filming the first moments of a new compositional process. By contrast, in a staged interview Zappa gives comments on music. This film seeks to reveal the sensetivities of Zappa's personality and character also beyond narrative content.
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Olivier Messiaen et les oiseaux
Apr 22, 1973En suivant le compositeur dans ses recherches ornithologiques, dans sa classe du conservatoire de Paris ou devant son orgue de l'église de la Trinité, le film évoque l'œuvre d'Olivier Messiaen, l'un des artistes majeurs du 20e siècle. Il rappelle les trois mobiles autour desquels il a bâti tout son travail: la foi catholique, l'amour de la nature et des oiseaux et la relation entre la couleur et les sons.
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Le Celluloïd et le Marbre
Jun 25, 2011En 1965, dans une émission de télévision, Rohmer demande à des artistes contemporains de situer leur art par rapport à l' «art cinématographique» pour dresser un état des lieux polémique et désenchanté sur l'art du XXe siècle.
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Du 5éme des Arts de Shiraz
Feb 05, 1971The creation of Iannis Xenakis’ « Persephassa » at the Shiraz-Persepolis Art Festival.
There are only a few archives left of this piece, for its ring-like disposition around the audience made it difficult for people to record it or take pictures of it. When it was created in Persepolis, each percussionist was settled on the stump of a column of the Palace of Darius. The distance between them could go as far as 164 feet (50 metres).
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Over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video. Milton Babbit’s discussion of the difficulties of working with archaic synthesizers in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1950s and ’60s is a firm reminder of just how foreign electronic sounds were to even the academic community only 40 years ago. Likewise, Paul Lansky’s private lesson with theremin inventor Leon Theremin is an example of how non-user friendly electronic musical instruments could be, even to people who should have the best sense of how to approach them.
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Charisma X: Iannis Xenakis
Mar 15, 2009This is a documentary film on the life and work of the composer Iannis Xenakis, the “architect of sound”, whose visionary work reconciles art with science. The film develops in such a way to show how Xenakis’ philosophy, architectural experience, mathematics and political background morph into music and how physical phenomena are transformed into musical expression.
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Nadir
Jan 01, 1993Documentary
The Eternal Colour of Interior
May 20, 2022Stuck in a never-ending cycle of routine whilst isolated within her home, a young woman enters a colour-soaked, phantasmagorical downward spiral.
Horror
Fer chaud
Jan 01, 1960Purged from its details, the image thus obtained offers a vision of this sculpture reduced to moving lights.
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Poème Électronique
Apr 16, 1958Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Philips corporation commissioned Le Corbusier to design the pavilion, which was intended as a showcase of their engineering progress. The pavilion was shaped like a stomach, with a narrow entrance and exit on either side of a large central space. As the audience entered and exited the pavilion, the electronic composition Concret PH by Iannis Xenakis (who also acted as Le Corbusier's architectural assistant for the pavilion's design) was heard. Poème électronique was synchronized to a film of black and white photographs selected by Le Corbusier which touched on vague themes of human existence.
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Tambores
Oct 14, 2011Present in nearly all cultures and used for many purposes, drums have unique shapes, sounds, names and accents in each region of the world. Behind this vast legacy are individuals who play them and are touched by these ancestral instruments. From the rare budimas used by Tonga people in Zambia to the large drums of the Chinese temples, from the religious festivals of Brazil to the rhythmic richness of the Arab World, these men and women keep this tradition alive.
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Day
Oct 10, 2021An experimental short film shot on iPhone 7 Plus during the first year of the COVID-19 outbreak. The film depicts a young man's love for arts and his struggle to coexist with his personas.
Drama
Continu-discontinu
Jan 01, 1959Piotr Kamler meets Luc Ferrari & Iannis Xenakis. A play of opposites: space, colour, forms, movements
Animation
Vasarely
Jan 01, 1960In 1960, Xenakis composed the music NEG-ALE for P. Kassovitz's "Vasarely", an abstract film on the artwork of Op-Art master Victor Vasarely.
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Polytope (Mycenes Alpha) 1978
May 05, 1980Mycenae-Alpha is an electroacoustic work that Xenakis composed in 1978 as part of an installation of lights, movement and music that took place at Mycenae Acropolis in Greece. The massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes Mycenae-Alpha is also the first work to be composed entirely on the UPIC system. The UPIC is a tool for the graphic composition of electroacoustic music which was first developed in the late 1970s by Xenakis and his staff at the Center for Studies in Mathematical and Automated Music in Paris.
Polytope (Mycenes Alpha) 1978
May 05, 1980Mycenae-Alpha is an electroacoustic work that Xenakis composed in 1978 as part of an installation of lights, movement and music that took place at Mycenae Acropolis in Greece. The massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes Mycenae-Alpha is also the first work to be composed entirely on the UPIC system. The UPIC is a tool for the graphic composition of electroacoustic music which was first developed in the late 1970s by Xenakis and his staff at the Center for Studies in Mathematical and Automated Music in Paris.
La geste gibelline
Apr 26, 1988In Gibellina, in deep Sicily, the sumptuous staging, by Yannis Kokkos, of Oresteïa by Iannis Xenakis, after Aeschylus.
Drama
La geste gibelline
Apr 26, 1988In Gibellina, in deep Sicily, the sumptuous staging, by Yannis Kokkos, of Oresteïa by Iannis Xenakis, after Aeschylus.
Drama
Bio’s Bahnhof
Nov 18, 1989Talk
Samedi soir
Jan 04, 1975Émission-débat hebdomadaire dans le restaurant Maxim's diffusée sur la deuxième chaîne de l'ORTF.
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