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Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis

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What it is

A score-following video of Iannis Xenakis's 1950s orchestral piece Metastasis, showing his graphic, mathematically derived notation as the music plays. It is a landmark of post-war modernist composition.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it as an example of radically different musical notation and as a favorite, if challenging, modernist piece that anticipates sounds like the THX Deep Note.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2010, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “It's one of my favorite songs, mostly for when I want to be left alone in a room.”

    1953 orchestral piece anticipating the THX Deep Note effect.

    computer, 2014-04 · Recommendation · in “Recreating the THX Deep Note”

  2. “here are some of the better known 'inhumane' pieces, all from the post-war European modernists, which I all like a lot”

    One of the better known post-war modernist pieces.

    nirse, 2022-06 · Recommendation · in “‘The War on Music’ Review: Songs Without Listeners”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: xenakis, metastasis, music notation, avant-garde, score

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