Re: [Csnd] [OT]Xenakis "musiques formelles"  *FREE DOWNLADABLE* available <--- ***FREE DOWNLADABLE*** translation to english immediatly PLEASE!!!

----- Original Message ----
From: DavidW 
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:59:39 AM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: [OT]Xenakis "musiques formelles" downloadable available <---translation to english immediatly PLEASE!!!

Perhaps my link to it's commercial availability:
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1576470792/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

was too concise.
Here's Amazon's blurb:
> Product Description
> Pendragon Press is proud to offer this new, revised, and expanded  
> edition of Formalized Music, Iannis Xenakis's landmark book of 1971.  
> In addition to three totally new chapters examining recent  
> breakthroughs in music theory, two original computer programs  
> illustrating the actual realization of newly proposed methods of  
> composition, and an appendix of the very latest developments of  
> stochastic synthesis as an invitation to future exploration, Xenakis  
> offers a very critical self-examination of his theoretical  
> propositions and artistic output of the past thirty-five years. This  
> edition of Formalized Music is an essential tool for understanding  
> the man and the thought processes of one of this century's most  
> important and revolutionary musical figures.
>
> Language Notes
> Text: English, French (translation) --This text refers to an out of  
> print or unavailable edition of this title.

  The first was 1971 (from memory) Pub. by Indiana UP.  Translated by  
Chris Butchers. I still have my 1973 copy, heavily annotated! I was a  
first year undergraduate at the time. The extra chapters in the second  
edition include more on time&space, sieve theory, dynamic stochastic  
synthesis and an update bibliography etc.

It is a seminal, sometimes (technically) infuriating book.  If you  
have problem with the maths, just _read through_ them. The book is  
_much_ more than a "how to" book. I had the privilege of spending time  
with him in the 1980s and wrote a small article of his importance to  
me as a composer on his passing:
Iannis Xenakis: A composer’s perspective Organised Sound Vol 6 No. 1  
Cambridge University Press (2001) pp 75-76. Subtitle: Vale I.X.
It can be downloaded here:
  http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=85277
If you're really stuck and want to read it, email me off list.

And of course, the music is fantastic. I find the further we are  
historically removed from them, even the early stochastic works are  
amazing!

-David

On 13/02/2008, at 10:53 AM, Marc Demers wrote:

> This book is available in English under the title: Formalized Music:  
> Thought and Mathematics in Composition. Xénakis applied mathematical  
> expression to compose many of his works, by doing that he  
> «formalized» a process. But Miller Puckette (PureData) could better  
> answer since he works for Xénakis while at IRCAM in the 1980's.
>
> marc
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: " Partev Barr Sarkissian" 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:16 PM
> To: 
> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: [OT]Xenakis "musiques formelles"  
> downloadable available <---translation to english immediatly PLEASE!!!
>
>> "musiques formelles" = Music Forms
>>   First couple pages is about scales (la musicala) or musicality
>>
>> Just got a call back to work. I'll check it out more later.
>> - P
>>
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>>
>> --- vip@avatar.com.au wrote:
>>
>> From: DavidW 
>> To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: [OT]Xenakis "musiques formelles" downloadable  
>> available <---translation to english immediatly PLEASE!!!
>> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:35:54 +1100
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1576470792/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
>>
>>
>> On 12/02/2008, at 5:10 PM, Super Pija wrote:
>>
>>> Xenakis "musiques formelles" downloadable available <---translation
>>> to english immediatly PLEASE!!!
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.iannis-xenakis.org/fxe/ecrits/mus_form.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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