Berlin Atonal - X100

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A Festival in the Spirit of Iannis Xenakis
X100 is a new one-off festival that celebrates and contextualises the legacy of Iannis Xenakis (1922 – 1997). Xenakis’ pioneering work initialised techniques and directions that continue to inspire a variety of disciplines from architecture and drawing to music theory and light design. But a hundred years after he was born, the continuing presence of this great composer is felt most strongly in the thriving and overlapping tradition(s) of experimental electronic music – the world in which Berlin Atonal operates. The sonic world of Xenakis, this once musical outsider, used formidable musical techniques such as arborescences, stochastic synthesis, and proto-granular synthesis in service of high-impact musical events, sensorial immersion, spectacle and noise. Contextualised here amongst diverse practices and trends within contemporary electronic music, the music of this prolific utopianist continues to not only challenge modes of temporal existence, but of how music can be imagined and shared.

X100 is organised by Outer (the team behind Berlin Atonal) and curated together with Studio LABOUR, with the support of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

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Fri 18th Nov

Moritz von Oswald presents Metameric 1.2

Iancu Dumitrescu's Hyperion Ensemble

Kali Malone presents Living Torch

Okkyung Lee

Marcus Schmickler presents Particle/Matter-Wave/Energy

Ana Maria Avram's 'Nouvel Archae' by Diana Miron

DJ Marcelle

Marylou

XENAKIS PIECES THAT WILL BE FEATURED

Persepolis (1971), Mists (1980, piano), Evryali (1973, piano), Rebonds (1989, percussion)

Sat 19th Nov

Pan Daijing

LABOUR presents sungazing

Dreamcrusher

JJJJJerome Ellis

Haswell & Hecker UPIC Diffusion Session # 23

Emma dj

XENAKIS PIECES THAT WILL BE FEATURED

Concret PH (1958), La Légende d'Eer (1977), Mikka (1971, violin), Dikhthas (1979, violin and piano)

Sun 20th Nov

Puce Mary (with Bill Kouligas and special guests) presents Ride of Discord

Lee Gamble

Rashad Becker

Valentina Magaletti

Sergio Luque

XENAKIS PIECES THAT WILL BE FEATURED

Hibiki-Hana-Ma (1969), GENDY3 (1991), Mycenae Alpha (1978), S.709 (1994), Okho (1989, percussion), Pléïades (1979, percussion), Nuits (1968, vocal ensemble)