Iannis Xenakis filmed Interview (2 of 2) in English with German subtitles

Iannis Xenakis English interview with German subtitles. Includes extracts of interviews with Volker Banfield Heinz Otto Peitgen.
Iannis Xenakis was born on May 29, 1922 in Braîla (Romania) as a son of Clearchos Xenakis and Fotini Pavlou. Around the age of five, he settled, with his father, in Greece. From 1947 he started studying at the Polytechnical Institute in Athens, where he was also part of the anti-fascist and later anti-English underground movement. Because of these activities he was sentenced to death in 1947. The same year he fled to France where he started working as an architect, being an assistant of Le Corbusier. He continued working with Le Corbusier until 1960. In these years he realized a.o. the Couvent de La Tourette (1955) and the Philips Pavilion at the Expo in Brussels (1958).
His first musical studies were around 1948 with Arthur Honegger, Nadia Boulanger and Darius Milhaud. In 1949-50 he studied with Olivier Messiaen, who encouraged him to develop his musical ideas.
In 1953 he married Françoise Gargouil. In 1965 Xenakis founded the Centre d'études de Mathématiques et Automatique Musicales (CEMAMu) in Paris. Between 1967 and 1972 he was Music Professor as well as founder of the Center for Mathematical automated Music (CMAM) at the Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. From 1972 to 1989 he was Professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris and in 1975 he was Professor of Music at the City University of London.
Xenakis received many awards and titles such as the Manos Hadjidakis Prize in Athens (1963), the Nippon Academy Award (1971), Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite in Paris (1985) etc.etc.
Iannis Xenakis died on Sunday, February 4, 2001. He is survived by his wife Françoise and his daughter Makhi.

[@turkeyburgerfries]

Agreed! It's really great to hear him talk. He seems like such a nice man! More so then I would have expected after listening to his music and knowing his history.

[@TheKISSHRHS]

This was filmed in Bremen in 1991, as part of the festivities round X.

[@Seems_like_mountains]

A man clearly ahead of his times. I didn't know about the connection between metastasis and the phillips pavillon, thank you so much for this upload!

[@UtsyoChakraborty]

Loved what Xenakis said. Especially that the best way to civilize people is to have more than one job at once. A man of supreme intellect, whose music seems to be nothing like anything written ever. It just stands for itself.

[@deanwright7611]

My friend, we are not even approaching a situation where people strive to have several roles consecutively. They have to establish themselves in one role and continue like slaves, be they refuse collectors or mathematicians.

[@lolocaty9101]

😮

[@berndproeve9455]

Xenakis discovered a whole new sound planet by new ways of music formalisation

[@kazazcan]

awesome! totally...

[@jnsurg947]

Great upload!! He was a mathematician,architect,(pupil of Le Corbusier). A Resistance activist once sentenced to death.

[@liamwhitney509]

Thanks for posting this interview. Amazing man!

[@thefxbip315]

Very interesting! But i must mention that it seems to me that he might be wrong about Bach here.Didn't the man signed everything with Soli Deo gloria? and is quoted saying things like ''“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”? I think Bach found musical inspiration in both religion and mathematics.

[@petef2525]

Whoooaaa whoaaaa... back it up.....good call fxbip...he said something about about Back using magic squares.....i once heard Bach was receiving gematric sequences from Kabbalistic Rabbis. The possiblity that xenakis is giving THAT some sort of creedence ( and apparently liked Bach) is very interesting revelation about both of these geniuses. ( if im not totally off here). Hmmmm...

[@pinkasarp2250]

Bach may well have said this for political/employment reasons

[@laurentmialon2594]

20 years today .... RIP master ....

[@littleflags]

this was really awesome. thanks for uploading this!

[@bubffm]

This man was extraordinary

[@carlosluis1970]

yes!

[@Kethvan]

What is the date of this interview? Any further details concerning who filmed this and where this was filmed? Thank you!

[@mattbrown-mb]

This was filmed in Bremen in 1991, as part of the festivities round X - See comment above :)

[@cliveso]

Did realise he understood German. And he also speaks English, French and Greek?

[@carlosluis1970]

yes!

[@videtivivideti]

♥

[@RhodesKing-q4r]

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[@michaelsoza4183]

A musical zero went on the top

[@sebastianzaczek]

dw they just misspelled "hero"

[@nandocordeiro5853]

@Miloš Bulajić Were you born this elitist or did you take lessons from Boulez?

[@carlosluis1970]

do you remember your born of frustration?