a r t i s t : Iannis Xenakis
t i t l e : Xenakis Percussion Works
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : mode
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : May/2007
t r a c k s : 13
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 227,7 MB
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The first complete set of Xenakis' percussion ensemble,
percussion duos, and solo percussion works. As Steven Schick
states in his comprehensive essay accompanying this set,
Xenakis was the "progenitor of modern percussion music." Of
course Iannis Xenakis did not create percussion music, his
first major contribution to the percussion repertory came more
than three decades after the American percussion revolution of
Edgard VarΦse, John Cage and Henry Cowell. But as Jorge Luis
Borges said of Kafka, he was so important that he influenced
even those who came before him. Indeed, our early 21st century
ear for percussion music has been so tuned by the music of
Xenakis that we cannot fail to understand the first
cacophonous noise constructions of VarΦse's Ionisation (1931)
and Cage's First Construction (1939) through the retro-lens of
the raw and terrifying noises in Xenakis' percussion works.
24-bit audiophile recordings.
red fish blue fish is the resident percussion ensemble of the
University of California, San Diego. The group functions as a
laboratory for the development of new percussion techniques
and music, and has toured widely. Its concerts have included
Lincoln Center, as a part of two Bang on a Can marathon
concerts, the Agora Festival (Paris), the Los Angeles
Philharmonic's Green Umbrella Series, the Centro des Bellas
Artes in Mexico City, and the Percussive Arts Society
International Convention. In addition the group offers a
regular series at the University of California, San Diego.
For the past 30 years, Steven Schick has championed
contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher. He
studied at the University of Iowa and received the Soloists
Diploma from the Staatliche Hochschule fⁿr Musik in Freiburg,
Germany. Schick has commissioned and premiered more than 100
new works for percussion and has performed these pieces on
major concert series such as Lincoln Center's Great Performers
and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella concerts as
well as in international festivals including Warsaw Autumn,
BBC Proms, Jerusalem Festival, Holland Festival, Stockholm
International Percussion Event and the Budapest Spring
Festival among many others. Schick is the founder and Artistic
Director of the percussion group, red fish blue fish.
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cd1
01-Persephassa [28:44]
02-Psappha [14:03]
03-Dmaathen [10:58]
cd2
01-PlΘ∩ades I MΘlanges [08:58]
02-PlΘ∩ades II Claviers [10:37]
03-PlΘ∩ades III MΘtaux [13:26]
04-PlΘ∩ades IV Peaux [12:01]
05-Kombo∩ [20:02]
cd3
01-Kassandra [20:48]
02-Okho [13:16]
03-Oophaa [11:50]
04-Rebonds B [05:26]
05-Rebonds A [06:08]
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