"The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes……" — 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."
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7 Quotes by Iannis Xenakis
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The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic…
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Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about…
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Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved…
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Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?
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The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds…
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To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes…
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