The first public event in which the newly founded Xenakis Project of the Americas (XPA) is participating: a three-day symposium, with a recital or two thrown in for good measure, about the work and legacy of composer and engineer Iannis Xenakis in the new world.
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Benoît Gibson
Drawing Musical Ideas: Xenakis’s Arborescences
10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Haiko Corneliessen
Musical Forms
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Robert Rowe
Iannis Xenakis and Algorithmic Composition
11:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Christopher Ariza
Mapping Pitch Space with the Xenakis Sieve: Compositional Applications of Non-Octave-Repeating Scales
12:15 - 12:45 p.m.
David Turnbull
Outside-Time
12:45 - 1:00 p.m.
Q & A Session
Moderated by Carl Skelton
2:30 - 3:00 p.m.
David Lieberman
The Performity of Space
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Ron Squibbs
Varieties of Transformation in Xenakis' Metastaseis
3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Michael Schumacher
Room Pieces
4:00 - 4:15 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:15 - 4:45 p.m.
Joseph Clarke
Diagrams of Continuity: Different Angles on the Philips Pavilion
4:45 - 5:15 p.m.
Sean Ferguson
Bringing Together Science, Technology, and Music at CIRMMT
5:15 - 6:00 p.m.
Q & A Session
Moderated by Sharon Kanach