
Iannis Xenakis
Sound
Born: 1922-05-29 · Brăila, Romania
Died: 2001-02-04
Biography
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Greek: Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalised citizen of France eighteen years later. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models in music such as applications of set theory, stochastic processes and gam
🎬 Movies (22)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci
2023
Music

OSN: Michele Gamba interpreta Zimmermann, Poppe e Xenakis per Rai NuovaMusica
2023
Original Music Composer

The Eternal Colour of Interior
2022
Music

Day
2021
Music

Celluloid and Marble
2011
Self
Drums
2011
Music

Le revenant
2010
Music

Charisma X: Iannis Xenakis
2009
Self (archive footage)

OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948–1980
2005
Self
Nadir
1993
Self

Something Rich and Strange: The Life and Music of Iannis Xenakis
1991
Self

Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko
1991
Self
La geste gibelline
1988
Music
Morton Feldman and lannis Xenakis, A Conversation
1986
Himself

Polytope (Mycenes Alpha) 1978
1980
Music

Olivier Messiaen and the Birds
1973
Self

Du 5éme des Arts de Shiraz
1971
Himself

The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
1966
Self

Fer chaud
1960
Music

Vasarely
1960
Music
Continu-discontinu
1959
Music
Electronic Poem
1958
Production Design