Ensemble Music 1

Album by Iannis Xenakis & ST-X Ensemble & Charles Zachary Bornstein

Ensemble Music 1 is a composition by Iannis Xenakis, completed in 1958. The work explores avant-garde textures and extended instrumental techniques, using dense clusters, layered rhythmic strata and early applications of mathematical and stochastic processes that characterise Xenakis's move towards a more architectural and textural conception of sound in his early post‑war output.
First released: 1996

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Plektó
    8:10
  2. 2.
    Eonta
    17:49
  3. 3.
    Akanthos
    10:15
  4. 4.
    Rebonds “B”
    5:52
  5. 5.
    Rebonds “A”
    7:32
  6. 6.
    N'Shima
    16:26

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