| Title | Introduction |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Meta-Xenakis |
| Contributor | Peter Nelson (author) |
| Sharon Kanach (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0390.01 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0390/chapters/10.11647/obp.0390.01 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Peter Nelson; Sharon Kanach; |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2024-10-09 |
| Page range | pp. 3–20 |
| Print length | 18 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
The British composer and music scholar Peter Nelson is Professor Emeritus of Music and Technology at the University of Edinburgh, where he established the electronic and computer music studios and led a research group in music and artificial intelligence. He met Iannis Xenakis in 1986 and became an associate of Xenakis’s computer music studio Les Ateliers UPIC between 1987 and 1991, touring and teaching with the Atelier and composing a number of works for UPIC. He has published book chapters and articles on a number of topics including music and technology, and rhythm. Between 1992 and 2022 he was Editor of the international journal Contemporary Music Review, published by Routledge. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2024.
The American musician Sharon Kanach first went to France to study with Nadia Boulanger. Very quickly however, in 1978, her path crossed that of Iannis Xenakis, with whom she studied and collaborated closely, especially on his writings (Arts/Sciences: Alloys; Formalized Music; Music and Architecture…). With the publisher Pendragon Press (recently closed) she was the editor of the Xenakis Series where a total of six books were produced. In 2009, she founded the Xenakis Project of the Americas under the auspices of the Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the Graduate Center of City University of New York and is currently Co-president of the Centre Iannis Xenakis (CIX) based at the Université de Rouen Normandie (France), under the auspices of the research lab Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire (GRHis). Between 2013–23, she was on the Editorial Committee of Circuit, musiques contemporaines. In 2022, under her directorship, the CIX initiated the Meta-Xenakis Consortium to celebrate the centenary of Xenakis’s birth. Kanach has been promoted to “Chevalière de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture.