Polytopes de iannis xenakis biography

Reproduction of an unpublished text, translated:

To be sensitive to the luminous phenomena, mainly natural: lightning, clouds, fires, sparkling sea, sky, volcanoes, … To be much less sensitive to the luminous games of the films even abstract, to the decorations of theater, of opera.

To prefer natural spectacles outside of man.

To prefer the vertigo created by the abyss of the starry sky when we plunge our head into it, forgetting the earth where our feet rest.

Polytopes - Iannis Xenakis

Or the surrealism of dreams where two extralucid moons rise simultaneously in the dark sky. In fact, everything in light is close to music by its most abstract sides: forms, movements, intensities, colors, expanses, … Imagine them, combine them, clash them, make them evolve like the luminous landscapes of galaxies and interstellar gases illuminated by young blue suns, or in gigantic movements blown by supernova explosions.

Luminous music for the eyes, symmetrical to the sound music for the ears.

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