Persephassa

Album by Iannis Xenakis & Les Percussions de Strasbourg

Persephassa is a 1969 composition for six percussionists by Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis. The piece features dense, overlapping rhythmic masses, stochastic-influenced structures and the spatialisation of performers around the audience, and it is representative of Xenakis's late 1960s exploration of percussion, mathematical models and architectural approaches to sound.
First released: 1971

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Persephassa (début)
    17:20
  2. 2.
    Persephassa (fin)
    12:50

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