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Artist:	XENAKIS/UPIC/CONTINUUM
Title:	Electroacoustic & Instrumental Works From CCMIX Paris
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	MODE 098/99CD

"This 2-CD collection documents more than 20 years of works composed on the unique computer music system called UPIC, and the evolution of the computer music center founded specifically to promote it -- Les Ateliers UPIC, now called CCMIX. The UPIC system was conceived by Iannis Xenakis in the early 1950s; the first version of UPIC was built hy Xenakis' research center, the CEMAM, in the late 1970s, and the system continues to be developed to this day. Instead of a keyboard to perform the music, the UPlC's performance device is a mouse and/or a digital drawing hoard. These are used to trace the composer's graphic score into the UPIC computer program, which then interprets the drawings as real time instructions for sound synthesis -- the composition/performance of a graphic musical score and real-time sound synthesis are unified by the UPlC's approach." Composers include: Iannis Xenakis (featuring the 8-channel tape piece "Polytope de Cluny" from 1972), Brigitte Robindoré, Jean-Claude Risset, Nicola Cisternino, Julio Estrada, Daniel Terrugi, Takehito Shimazu, Curtis Roads, Gérard Pape.

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