The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear? — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“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…” quote by Iannis Xenakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c9b/iannis-xenakis-48999_aim_art-and-above-all-music-has-a-fundamenta_922254.jpg)
