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1:51 PM EDT June 6, 2024:
Iannis Xenakis - "Concret PH" From the album The World's Behind You: A Velvet Underground Companion (April 2023)
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4:47 PM EDT May 14, 2024:
Iannis Xenakis - "Concret PH" From the album The World's Behind You: A Velvet Underground Companion (April 2023)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
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3:25 PM EST December 6, 2023:
Iannis Xenakis - "Concret PH" From the album The World's Behind You: A Velvet Underground Companion (April 2023)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
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musique concrète
Iannis Xenakis, Concret PH
@ Philips Pavilion, 1958, Le Corbusier
Xenakis: Concret PH
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Concret PH was composed by Iannis Xenakis in 1958 for the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World Fair. The piece is a tape collage of a single ember popping in a fire. It’s brief, approachable, and full of brutally high frequencies. Xenakis layers the sound at different speeds and positions in space. One first hears a dense bed of embers somewhere in the distance. More sparse, higher pitched embers begin to stick out, sounding right on the speaker. Pitched down embers clank past, revealing their internal structure. The constitution of the ember-cloud changes subtly: it turns to a random-sounding collection of pitches which resembles the spectral noise in a digital vocoder. Noise seethes at the high edge of hearing. It’s over too soon for listener, through probably not for composer splicing tiny bits of tape together.
Concret PH is one of my favorite early electroacoustic works; there’s much to be said for tightly-edited music which fades in and out to leave you expecting more. It’s also historically important as the manually constructed predecessor to all the fun which would later be had with tape delays and computer granular synthesis.
Concret PH by Iannis Xenakis on the album Sound Unbound. Listened to on February 06, 2015 at 01:27PM.
Concret PH by Iannis Xenakis on the album Sound Unbound: Excerpts And Allegories From The Sub Rosa Audio Archives. Listened to on January 22, 2015 at 06:25PM.
