29. Iannis Xenakis, Inventor of Music—Composer, Engineer, and Architect: The Voice of the “Inexpressible” and of “Revelation”

Cândido Lima is a Portuguese composer, pianist, organist, teacher, chronicler, critic, publicist, essayist, lecturer, and researcher. He studied piano, composition and aesthetics in Lisbon, Porto, and at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne with Xenakis and Michel Guiomar. He obtained his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1983, under Xenakis’s directorship. He studied orchestral conducting with Michel Tabachnik and Gilbert Amy and followed courses in electroacoustics, analysis and piano at the Université de Vincennes. He founded Grupo Musica Nova in 1973. Since the 1960s, Lima has been active in promoting contemporary music in music schools, on public television and radio, as well as in the written press, often including the work of Xenakis, even before their first personal meeting in Darmstadt in 1972. Their friendship was constant from that date until the composer’s passing in 2001. A-MÈR-ES (1978–9), Oceanos (1978–9), Manta (2004), Músicas de Villaiana (2008–9), are some of his diverse and multifaceted works for orchestra, voices, and multimedia, among chamber music, electronic music, computer music, mixed music. Besides his activity as a composer, Lima has written many texts, both published and unpublished.