"This volume includes the three central parts of Anthology for musical analysis, 7th edition, those devoted respectively to Baroque, Classical, an Romantic music--plus its appendix of chorale harmonizations. To the 141 pieces in these parts of the anthology, three have been adde…
"In the late 70s, an interdisciplinary team led by the composer Iannis Xenakis developed the compositional tool UPIC out of an effort to transform drawings into synthesized sound. Together with the Centre Iannis Xenakis, the ZKM is now addressing for the first time the genesis o…
"UPIC stands for Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu. Despite the seeming technicality of this name, this apparatus is magic. Here, it is about nothing less than the translation of visuality, in the form of drawing, into musical compositions. The digital miracle machine wa…
From Xenakis's UPIC to graphic notation today
