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Xenakis Edition 5: La Légende d'Eer (mode148)

by Iannis Xenakis

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La Légende d'Eer 47:02

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La légende d'Eer is a powerful 7-channel electro-acoustic composition which Xenakis created in 1977-78 to be played in "Le Diatope", a curvaceous architectural construction designed by the composer, together with a visual component including laser lights. This "multi-media" work was composed for the opening of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, where it was performed for three months and seen by thousands of people.
• The sound materials of a La légende d'Eer stem from three sources: instrumental sounds, noises, and electronically generated sounds. The work suggests an initial departure, a journey, and a final return. Xenakis surrounds the work with a compilation of five texts, reflecting or reacting upon each other across the distances in time, space, and culture which separate them.
• This new stereo mix was created by Gerard Pape - director of Xenakis' CCMIX studio in Paris - from the original analog master tape.
• The analog master was transferred at high-resolution 96khz/24-bit sound for the optimum quality, revealing details not heard in the previous stereo CD release (now deleted).
• Use of the original master tape restored almost 2 minutes and 30 seconds to the piece, released here for the first time.

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released January 31, 2005

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