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From Xenakis's Upic to Graphic Notation Today - Xenakis, Iannis (Composer), and Weibel, Peter (Editor), and Brummer, Ludger (Editor)
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UPIC, which stands for Unit� Polyagogique Informatique: As technical as this term may seem at first, this apparatus is magical. For it is about nothing less than the translation of visuality in the form of drawings into sound and composed music. The digital wonder machine was created in the late 1970s by the composer Iannis Xenakis together with an interdisciplinary research team. Its value as a musical instrument is even surpassed by its historical role as a driving force for the development of digital music. The ...

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From Xenakis's Upic to Graphic Notation Today 2020, Hatje Cantz

ISBN-13: 9783775747417

Hardcover