Xenakis: Electronic Music 1
The luminously bubbling mathematics of Iannis Xenakis’ Plato-inspired, La légende d’eer are accompanied here by Bruno Rastoin’s transcription of 350 images capturing Xenakis’s score, photographs of its premiere performance and diagrams of Le diatope, the curvilinear shell designed by Xenakis for the opening of the Centre Georges-Pompidou. La légende d’eer was a sweepingly elaborate precision of lights, lasers, mirrors, and an avant-garde masterpiece allowed now to become freshly compelling. Electronic Music I additionally features a new surround-sound mix of the piece and a video conversation between Xenakis and musicologist Harry Halbreich.
Also in this combined programme
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Video Music 2: Electric Current
From Lovid’s hertz-bursts of video feedback to the warm brown feeling of Pawel Wojtasik’s Dark Sun Squeeze, video never sounded quite so good. -
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Re-Visiting “Father” and the Source Family
A family story of communal living, Hollywood Hills health food, and a single-minded devotion to costumes, communal idylls and following things through -
The Fine Art of Goofing Off
Devoted to celebrating pointless activity, Goofing Off dances between the silly and the philosophical with free-associative abandon. -
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Niger: Magic and Ecstasy in the Sahel
A folk cinema celebration of life in the Sahel region of Africa, showcasing many of Niger’s venerable music styles. -
Small Steps: Conversations with Pauline Oliveros
A sublimely intimate conversation with Pauline Oliveros – composer, deep listener and sound humanitarian. -
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Film details
- Countries of production
- France, USA
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 125'
- Medium/Format
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