Iannis Xenakis 1922
Nomos Alpha for cello solo 1965 (15')
Mesosticon A.D.
Nomos Alpha Is somehow
emblemAtic, some say problematic
'nomos' meaNs 'rule', 'law'
'special melody' aNd 'mode'
'alpha', 'begInning'… a dedication
to
the memory of the 'firSt' -ancient
greek musictheorist AristoXenes
of Tarento…
unprEdictable, abstract, ritual
music
coNceptualy extremly complex
based on the 24 rotAtion-possibilities
of
the hexaeder, 'maKing music out
of a cube'!
ultimately parametrIzed, full
of
rude, raw and conjuring geStures
durations dyNamics and densities
chaos and Order…
the 'game',is synchronisM,conjunction,disjunction,negation
'symbOlic music' in a sense of
mathematical logic baSed on set-theory
nevertheless pervaded by An incontestable
frenetic
expressiveness;
violent, expLosive and abrupt…
poetry, science and Philosophy
matched
into an energetic patcHwork of
carefully sculpted 'affects'
the end, 'omegA', a 'deus ex
machina'
.
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