Iannis Xenakis & David Rosenboom – A Conversation About Music from David Rosenboom on Vimeo.
In March of 1983, composer-performer David Rosenboom, a long-time admirer of the work of Iannis Xenakis and then Director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland, California, arranged for Xenakis to have a residency at Mills during which Xenakis taught students, gave seminars and participated in concerts of his music. Sometime during that residency—the precise date is unknown—Rosenboom and Xenakis decided to engage in a conversation about music in front of a video camera in the Mills College Ensemble Room. They touched on a range of subjects, including music learning, the perception of musical forms, music cognition, cultural universals in music, and many other related matters. This video documents that conversation.
Auto-generated closed captions that have been slightly, roughly edited can be turned on when watching this video. A transcript of this discussion that has been edited for greater clarity has been published in this book: Kanach, Sharon (ed.). Xenakis Matters (Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, 2012). Those with scholarly interests are encouraged to consult this version.
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