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8. Iannis Xenakis’s Materialism: On the Dialectic of Real-time Computation

Chapter of: Meta-Xenakis: New Perspectives on Iannis Xenakis’s Life, Work, and Legacies(pp. 143–156)

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Title8. Iannis Xenakis’s Materialism
SubtitleOn the Dialectic of Real-time Computation
ContributorRamón del Buey Cañas(author)
Oswaldo Emiddio Vasquez Hadjilyra(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0390.10
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0390/chapters/10.11647/obp.0390.10
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightRamón del Buey Cañas; Oswaldo Emiddio Vasquez Hadjilyra;
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-10-09
Long abstractDespite the ongoing resurgence of materialist philosophy, Xenakis’s work is rarely associated with materialist thought. This is peculiar since Xenakis’s lifelong commitment to physical matter properties transcribed to compositions, and his philosophical constructions and renditions of material processes in instruments, code, writings, and performances, instantly elucidate his preoccupation on how we relate to matter. Given the little effort to grapple with Xenakis’s materialist work philosophically, this chapter approaches the question of materialism in Xenakis’s work, through his relationship to philosopher and information theorist Abraham Moles and the real-time capabilities of the UPIC, and argues that in the ongoing conversations in materialist philosophy, the work of Xenakis, in its dialectic understanding, plays a pivotal role.
Page rangepp. 143–156
Print length14 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Ramón del Buey Cañas

(author)
PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
visiting researcher at Duke University
member of the Board of Directors at AMEE (Asociación de Música Electroacústica y Arte Sonoro de España)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8087-8611

Ramón del Buey Cañas is a Spanish researcher, with a formal background in Philosophy (BA, MA), and Environmental Humanities (MA). He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has been a visiting scholar at Duke University from 2022 to 2023. Currently, his academic research links computation, music, and materialism. His publications include books in the Party Studies series, together with Brandon LaBelle and Víctor Aguado Machuca (Errant Bodies Press). Since 2018, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Asociación de Música Electroacústica y Arte Sonoro de España (AMEE).

Oswaldo Emiddio Vasquez Hadjilyra

(author)
PhD candidate in the transdisciplinary program Media Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3320-2296

Oswaldo Emiddio Vasquez Hadjilyra is a Cypriot-Dominican artist and electronic musician, with a formal background in Mathematics (BSc) and Philosophy (BA, MA). He is currently a PhD candidate in the transdisciplinary program Media Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. His research interrogates, in theory and in practice, the philosophical and aesthetic implications of treating digitality and computation under a materialist framework. In 2024, along with collaborators, he represented Cyprus in the 60th Venice Biennale.