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Iannis Xenakis: Metastasis

jarkkkoo · Music · 10 min · 2006 · YouTube title: Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis
Why it's here

HN uses it as an example of radically different musical notation and as a favorite, if challenging, modernist piece that anticipates sounds like the THX Deep Note.

What it covers

A score-following video of Iannis Xenakis's 1950s orchestral piece Metastasis, showing his graphic, mathematically derived notation as the music plays. It is a landmark of post-war modernist composition.