Iannis Xenakis - Persephassa for Six Percussionists (1969) [Score-Video]

[@robertlustmord1636]

Sounds like my popcorn is ready.

[@luiserades7176]

OH REALLY! I `d love to hear that sound when my popcorn were ready! I remember that quote by Miles Davis on Eric Dolphy when he said that his sound it's like stepping on a cat's tail hahaha

[@Bguitarney]

Yeah it is, that’s exactly what he was inspired by. And after searching for years for that thing that noice or life experience to be shaped into something magical as he stood by the microwave, or rather he probably had him some the stove top back then but yeah that’s what he did, I know, he told me so.

[@Djembe908]

I played that piece in a Theatre in Amsterdam. What a challenge to do!

[@ionvasile12]

Beautiful music! I have no words.

[@patrefkorwa9371]

Sound from heaven. Very beautiful...

[@quinn7894]

Xenakis' other works: *sounds from hell*

[@splashmagnetism5923]

what a piece, WOW!

[@i_am_a_music_maker5212]

This is legit groovy

[@zizhanwu9036]

How did the percussionists keep track of the tempo when they all had different tempos?

[@EggBenis]

Practicing 40 hours a day.

[@joshuagearing937]

The way I've seen it done is that each person has a pair of headphones which I'm guessing have tempos set in them so they change whilst playing the piece. They would practice the different tempo changes and making sure they landed in the same spot or made sure that the metronomes were still working

[@glennlubomirskynovitch3254]

Percussionists can do that.

[@山川川山]

This piece make sense

[@machida5114]

so good...

[@machida5114]

I listened to it on vinyl every day over 40 years ago. It was a performance by the Strathbourg Percussion Group.

[@quinn7894]

3:59 *YES*

[@roccobuck3611]

Where could i find this score?

[@roundandsquareful]

[@handledav]

percussion

[@flav_du_14]

Il y a des français ?

[@gaecsaintnicol9994]

oui

[@zahiravialard943]

Oui mais moi j'écoute cette chanson pour le collège rip 👀

[@danatonimovies2321]

There is and will propably never be another Xenakis. The sad thing is that most of the brilliant artmusic is allready done (Ligeti aswell). In despair I´ve gone back to melody and harmony but at the moment I´m actually getting back to mosern music ideas with adding these elements.....! a cool thing is that a pretty boring romantic danish composer did before all the others. Check him out....it fooled Ligeti 1958: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmWXlGtmpJyFgbs

[@aproc_]

Good melody work really can tend to seem like studies in the 'law of small numbers' after music like Xenakis' or Ligeti's... approaching that reality is something I've been working at for a few years now since dropping out of music school ^^" and Langgaard is awesome, very ahead of his time :D

[@GeoNever9675]

Yo

[@Bguitarney]

Wonder if John Bonham dang can’t even spell his name Led Zeppelin drum dang it…, ever heard this?