Final Program
Exploring Xenakis: Performance, Practice, Philosophy
School of Music, University of Leeds
Tuesday, 12 September, 2017
Online Registration: http://store.leeds.ac.uk/product-catalogue/school-of-music/conference-events/symposium-exploring-xenakis-performance-practice-philosophy
9am Registration
9.30am Opening and Welcome Address
9.45am
‘Performance in Xenakis’s electroacoustic music’.
Reinhold Friedl (Goldsmiths, University of London)
10.15am
Further development of 1950s modernist avant garde composition in Xenakis’ Metastaseis (1954).
Marlēné Radice (Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music, Monash University)
10.45am
‘‘Xenakis, not Gounod’: Xenakis, the Avant Garde, and May ’68’.
Dr Alannah Halay and Michael D. Atkinson (University of Leeds)
11.15am Coffee break
11.45am
‘Morphological Aspects in Xenakis’s Music’
Said Athié Bonduki (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
12.15pm
Nomos alpha by Iannis Xenakis: ‘Temporality and Interpretative Space’.
Alfia Nakipbekova (University of Leeds)
12.45pm
‘The Berlin sketches and Xenakis’s middle period style’.
Dr. Dimitris Exarchos (Goldsmiths, University of London)
1.15pm Lunch
2.00pm
‘Rhythmic practice through Psappha’ – Research statement
Yuko Ohara (Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Japan)
2.15pm
‘Iannis Xenakis and his Music’.
Anna Terzaroli (Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, Rome)
2.45pm
‘Synthesising the Sonority: Stratification of Clusters in Xenakis’s Gmeeoorh (1974)’
Marina Sudo (University of Leuven)
3.15pm
‘The use of unison in the orchestral music of Xenakis’.
Nikos Ioakeim (Independent Scholar)
3.45pm
‘Iannis Xenakis’ Metastasis. Aesthetic Experience and the Importance of Knowledge’.
Stefanie Bräuml (University of Music and Arts, Vienna)
4.15pm Coffee break
4.45pm Performance
Xenakis Nomos alpha for solo cello
Alfia Nakipbekova
Keynote Lectures
5.00pm
Makis Solomos
‘Nomos alpha: compositional theory and practice, remarks on performance’.
5.45pm Benoit Gibson
‘Interpreting the musical ideas of Iannis Xenakis: from representation to performance’.
6.30pm Closing Remarks and Wine Reception