Iannis Xenakis - La legende d'Eer

La légende d'Eer is a powerful 7-channel electro-acoustic composition which Xenakis created in 1977-78 to be played in "Le Diatope", a curvaceous architectural construction designed by the composer, together with a visual component including laser lights. This "multi-media" work was composed for the opening of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, where it was performed for three months and seen by thousands of people.

The sound materials of a La légende d'Eer stem from three sources: instrumental sounds, noises, and electronically generated sounds. The work suggests an initial departure, a journey, and a final return. Xenakis surrounds the work with a compilation of five texts, reflecting or reacting upon each other across the distances in time, space, and culture which separate them.

Francois Bayle - score to Piotr Kamler 'Coeur de Secours' (1973)

"Musique concrète ... was a music that uses all the resources that are available to us, a music that uses all the sounds of life as we live it in the everyday world.... "

François Bayle is a pioneering composer of computer and electro-acoustic music. As Director of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in Paris, he extended the musique concrète tradition to new digital technologies, including the much-used GRM Tools sound processing software. He also invented the Acousmonium, an 80-loudspeaker orchestra.

Bayle's honors and awards include Commandeur des Arts et Lettres, Officier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite - Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Grand Prix National du Disque, Prix Ars Eletronica 1989, Grand Prix de la Musique de la Ville de Paris ... His music is performed throughout Europe and the world.

François Bayle currently lives in Paris, composes actively, and travels widely.