Conventions Quotes by Iannis Xenakis

Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?

— Iannis Xenakis

The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being…

— Iannis Xenakis

To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations…

— Iannis Xenakis

“Art, and above all, music has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of…

— Iannis Xenakis

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

— Iannis Xenakis

Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within,…

— Iannis Xenakis

The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out…

— Iannis Xenakis