Xenakis' "Okho" for three djembes

[davidognomo]

about the notation:

rachel, I've been working, so just answering now.

I made a search on the web and got nothing. So, my guess is that the piece may still be subject of copyrights. So, the suggestions advanced by the members on the posts above are the right options.

I didn't put this here for its appeal in terms of djembe or w african music. This is not my thing. Xenakis does in this piece the same that he does in all of his several percussion pieces. This piece was a political statement.

In terms of knowledge of what thw djembe is and what it's ment for, it's very naif.
But, nevertheless, it's a huge composer, that revolutionized the way of thinking music at the time. And, having composed a piece for djembes, it had to be referenced here.

Cheers

[rachelnguyen]

Hey David,

Thanks for checking. I think you are right that it deserves a thread. Why not?

But I would take an African djembefola anyday, LOL.

[davidognomo]

one last thing: about Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis was born in 1922 in Braïla, Romania, and died in 2001 in Paris, France. A Greek
Resistance fighter in World War II, he fled to France as a political refugee in 1947. Having
obtained an engineering degree from the Athens Polytechnic Institute, he collaborated with Le
Corbusier in Paris from 1947–1959. From 1950–1953, while working with the noted architect, he
studied composition at the Paris Conservatory under Olivier Messiaen. Xenakis’s collaboration with
Le Corbusier as an engineer and architect yielded innovative projects such as the Couvent de La
Tourette (1955) and the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World’s Fair (1958). Xenakis was also a
speculative thinker, the author of such books as Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in
Composition; Music and Architecture; and Arts/Sciences: Alloys. He was the founder (1965) and
Director of the Center for Studies of Mathematical and Automated Music (CEMAMu) in Paris;
Associate Professor, Electronic Music and founder and Director, Center for Mathematical and
Automated Music (CMAM) at Indiana University in Bloomington (1967–72); researcher at the
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris (1970); Gresham Professor of
Music, City University London (1975); and Professor at the University of Paris (1972–89).
Iannis Xenakis was awarded the Kyoto Prize in 1997, considered the Nobel Prize of Music, and the
Polar Prize in 1999