About the Piece

This delicate 作品 is full of light crackling 声 and was made from 录音 of Charcoal crackling and fizzing away

It was composed to sparkle and glitter around the 听众 to envelop them and to clear their mind


聆 Tip

Try to 听 to this in a quiet place so that you are able to 听 all of the 深 and 细节 in these 声


About the Composer

Iannis Xenakis was a Greek 作曲家 and architect who used 数学 to 创作 new 樂/乐 形式 and 质地（纹理、织体） His 作品 are 通常 considered to be some of the most adventurous and 创新 作品 创作 since 1950 He only composed a few 电子 作品 with most of his 作品 being composed for 传统 乐器 but all of his 樂/乐 输出 can be 描述 as 声 底/基于 樂/乐 and 不 that of 音符 He also used 算機/计算机 to help him 作曲 running mathematical 程序 to provide him with 观念 for 樂/乐 材料 and 形状


作曲 Tip

Iannis Xenakis often plays with 密度 in his 作品 创作 clouds of 声 which change from dense to sparse as they swirl around the 听众

听 out for the changes in 密度 within this 作品 and think about trying to include 类似 观念 in your own 作品