Xenakis: Electronic Music, Vol. 1 - La Legende d'Eer
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- Artist: I. Xenakis
- Format: DVD
- Screen Format: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
- Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 (Alternate Wide Screen)
- Rating: NR
- Runtime (minutes): 47
- Year: 2005
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 764593014898
- Item Number: KOC301489
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Conceptual artist Iannis Xenakis (who died in 2001) composed La Legende d'Eer, an electroacoustic work for seven-track tape, to commemorate the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1978. It featured scattered shards of orchestral sound and cacophonous noises. Xenakis ran the tape continuously for several months straight (in a loop) as an aural accompaniment to the visual splendor of Le Diatope, a massive convex architectural structure he designed and built, fitted with four lasers, 400 mirrors, and 1680 pulsating lights. In the late seventies, documentarist Bruno Rastoin edited hundreds of images of the initial creation into a single film, which forever preserves the memory of Xenakis's exhibit. That film is now available in the home video release Legende d'Eer. The program features a soundtrack remastered from the seven-track tapes originally used in the exhibition, and a bonus interview with Xenakis conducted by musicologist Harry Halbreich. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Artist: I. Xenakis
- Format: DVD
- Screen Format: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
- Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 (Alternate Wide Screen)
- Rating: NR
- Runtime (minutes): 47
- Year: 2005
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 764593014898
- Item Number: KOC301489
- Label: Mode
- Sound By: PCM Stereo
- Released By: Mode
- Credits:
La Legende d'Eer is presented with Bruno Rastion's Film made of over 350 images from the original performance
Mastered for the original 7-track analogue tapes, with new surround and stereo mixes by Gerard Pape, Xenakis's associate and director of the CCMIX
Use of the original master tape restored almost 2 minutes and 30 secords to the piece, released here for the first time
67-minute video interview of Xenakis in conversation with noted musicologist Harry Halbreich
24-bit DTS 5.1 Surround Sound
Uncompressed 96 kHz/24-bit PCM Stereo mix
Essays by Makis Solomos and Bruno Rastoin
Mastered for the original 7-track analogue tapes, with new surround and stereo mixes by Gerard Pape, Xenakis's associate and director of the CCMIX
Use of the original master tape restored almost 2 minutes and 30 secords to the piece, released here for the first time
67-minute video interview of Xenakis in conversation with noted musicologist Harry Halbreich
24-bit DTS 5.1 Surround Sound
Uncompressed 96 kHz/24-bit PCM Stereo mix
Essays by Makis Solomos and Bruno Rastoin
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