Séverine Bridoux-Michel, Le Corbusier & Iannis Xenakis : un dialogue architecture/musique

Stochastic Composition and Stochastic Timbre: GENDY3 by Iannis Xenakis

GENDY3 BY IANNIS XENAKIS is a stochastic music work entirely produced by a computer program written in 1991 by the composer himself at CEMAMu. The work GENDT3 is the continuation of the series of stochastic music works that Xenakis inaugurated in 1955 with Metastasis. In GENDT3, the use of stochastic rules is more deeply systematic, as the composer says in his recent publication (Xenakis 1991b)...

STRUCTURE AND SYMMETRY IN IANNIS xENAKIS’ NOMOS ALPHA FOR CELLO SOLO

We discuss the interplay between structure and symmetry in the compositional process of Iannis Xenakis’ Nomos Alpha for cello (1965). Following the composer’s indications provided in many of his theoretical writings, we describe the structure of the piece, which is directly provided by the combinatorial properties of a double Fibonacci process applied to a particular symmetry group. We then pre...

Cognition Meets Le Corbusier-Cognitive Principles of Architectural Design

Research on human spatial memory and navigational ability has recently shown the strong influence of reference systems in spatial memory on the ways spatial information is accessed in navigation and other spatially oriented tasks. One of the main findings can be characterized as a large cognitive cost, both in terms of speed and accuracy that occurs whenever the reference system used to encode ...

Veiling Architecture Privacy in Loos and Le Corbusier

Architectural Metaphors of Knowledge: The Mundaneum Designs of Maurice Heymans, Paul Otlet, and Le Corbusier

The author discusses the architectural plans of the Mundaneum made in the 1930s by the Belgian modernist architect Maurice Heymans in the footsteps of Le Corbusier and in collaboration with Paul Otlet. The Mundaneum was the utopian concept of a world center for the accumulation, organization, and dissemination of knowledge, invented by the visionary encyclopedist and internationalist Paul Otlet...