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Iannis Xenakis Quotes

d. 2001 Greece

Iannix Xenakis (May 29, 1922 – February 4, 2001) was a Greek composer and architect and major contributor to musical modernism.

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Thus the musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

"The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry."

"Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one..."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Iannis Xenakis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.