Iannis Xenakis Orient Occident

OrientOccident, film music for 2track tape 4 loudspeakers (1960) By 1960, Iannis Xenakis, who had worked as an architectural assistant to Le Corbusier for over a decade, was on his own, striking out as a professional composer. Through his association with the electronic music studio at Radio France known as Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), he was awarded a couple of commissions to produce soundtracks for documentary films. OrientOccident, the only one to have seen life as a concert work and recor