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Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis
A score-following video of Iannis Xenakis's 1950s orchestral piece Metastasis, showing his graphic, mathematically derived notation as the music plays. It is a landmark of post-war modernist composition.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it as an example of radically different musical notation and as a favorite, if challenging, modernist piece that anticipates sounds like the THX Deep Note.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- jarkkkoo
- Topic
- modernist orchestral music
- Format
- music
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Iannis Xenakis' song Metastasis got there first as far as I know, in 1953 with a full orchestra. It has a slightly different (less harmonic) end: [VIDEO] (mostly the first minute) It's one of my favorite songs, mostly for when I want to be left …
computer on Hacker News · 2014-04
In Recreating the THX Deep Notehere are some of the better known 'inhumane' pieces, all from the post-war European modernists, which I all like a lot: [LINK] (Klavierstueck ix by Stockhausen) [LINK] (Pli selon pli by Boulez) [LINK] (Athmosphere by Ligeti) [LINK] (Sinfonia by Berio) [VIDEO] (Metastasis by Xenakis) And …
nirse on Hacker News · 2022-06
In ‘The War on Music’ Review: Songs Without Listeners
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