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COPYRIGHT 2001 MIT Press Journals
Iannis Xenakis: Persepolis
Compact disc, 2000, FractalOX; available from Fractal Records, 26 rue Garnier, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; fax (+33) 1-4745-1702; electronic mail fractal.rec@wanadoo.fr; World Wide Web www.fractal-records.com
Over some forty years, Iannis Xenakis created a series of seminal electroacoustic works, along with much else. Most of these pieces are now available on compact disc after languishing for many years as out-of-print LPs or as original tapes never released at all. Persepolis, after Kraanerg--a ballet for chamber orchestra and tape from 1969--is his longest continuous work. It had been available on the Philips label, but the LP, unfortunately, presented a distorted version of the piece, breaking it in half and...
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