Iannis Xenakis, "ST/10=1-080262"
-- Liner Notes --
ST/10=1-080262 for Ten Instruments (1956-1962)
(band 2 - 12:1O)
Dedicated to Konstantin Simonovitch and the Paris Instrumental Ensemble for Contemporary Music which performs it here, the work was actually realized at the Paris IBM installation (Place Vendome) in 1962 under the direction of Simonovitch himself.
The composition signifies the initial calculation by the IBM 7090 (utilized by Xenakis for "Atrees (Hommage a Pascal),""Morisma-Amorisma" and "ST/4" among other works), following a special stochastic (probabilist) program devised by Xenakis. To the composer, the calculation of probabilities in itself is based upon the only theory capable of dealing with great numbers. The program he used here was a derivative of the thesis of "Minimal Rules of Composition" which he had formulated four years earlier for the "Achorripsis for 21 Instruments" (side two, band two). Basically, the program is a complex of stochastic laws by which the composer orders the electronic brain to define all the sounds one after the other in a previously calculated sequence. First comes the occurence date, then the tonal class (arco, pizzicato, glissando, etc.), the instrument, the height, the glissando pitch if there is any, the length in time and the dynamic form of the emission of sound. In the title itself, ST stands for stochastic (from the Greek word stochos, meaning aim) and is a term Xenakis frequently applies to his music. (In mathematical terms, stochastic has reference to the contingency of change or the theory of probability first introduced by Jacques Bernoulli in 1713.) 10-1 signifies that this is Xenakis' first work for ten instruments. 080262 equals February 8, 1962, the date when the work was calculated by the 7090. As Xenakis has commented, the IBM 7090 has served his music well by advancing his goal of creating ". . . a form of composition which is not the object in itself, but an idea in itself, that is to say, the beginnings of a family of compositions."
PARIS INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
*CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS
(Chorus Master: Abbe Revert)
KONSTANTIN SIMONOVITCH conducting
ST/10=1-080262 for Ten Instruments (1956-1962)
(band 2 - 12:1O)
Dedicated to Konstantin Simonovitch and the Paris Instrumental Ensemble for Contemporary Music which performs it here, the work was actually realized at the Paris IBM installation (Place Vendome) in 1962 under the direction of Simonovitch himself.
The composition signifies the initial calculation by the IBM 7090 (utilized by Xenakis for "Atrees (Hommage a Pascal),""Morisma-Amorisma" and "ST/4" among other works), following a special stochastic (probabilist) program devised by Xenakis. To the composer, the calculation of probabilities in itself is based upon the only theory capable of dealing with great numbers. The program he used here was a derivative of the thesis of "Minimal Rules of Composition" which he had formulated four years earlier for the "Achorripsis for 21 Instruments" (side two, band two). Basically, the program is a complex of stochastic laws by which the composer orders the electronic brain to define all the sounds one after the other in a previously calculated sequence. First comes the occurence date, then the tonal class (arco, pizzicato, glissando, etc.), the instrument, the height, the glissando pitch if there is any, the length in time and the dynamic form of the emission of sound. In the title itself, ST stands for stochastic (from the Greek word stochos, meaning aim) and is a term Xenakis frequently applies to his music. (In mathematical terms, stochastic has reference to the contingency of change or the theory of probability first introduced by Jacques Bernoulli in 1713.) 10-1 signifies that this is Xenakis' first work for ten instruments. 080262 equals February 8, 1962, the date when the work was calculated by the 7090. As Xenakis has commented, the IBM 7090 has served his music well by advancing his goal of creating ". . . a form of composition which is not the object in itself, but an idea in itself, that is to say, the beginnings of a family of compositions."
PARIS INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
*CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS
(Chorus Master: Abbe Revert)
KONSTANTIN SIMONOVITCH conducting
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