Iannis Xenakis
Birthday
1922/05/29
Day of death
2001/02/04 (78 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Brăila, Romania
Also know as
Yannis Xenakis
Biography
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Greek: Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalised citizen of France eighteen years later. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models in music such as applications of set theory, stochastic processes and gam...Read more
Acting
(1991) Something Rich and Strange: The Life and Music of Iannis Xenakis
as Self
(1966) The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
as Self
(1991) Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko
as Self
(1973) Olivier Messiaen and the Birds
as Self
(2011) Celluloid and Marble
as Self
(1971) Du 5éme des Arts de Shiraz
as Himself
(2005) OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948–1980
as Self
(2009) Charisma X: Iannis Xenakis
as Self (archive footage)
(1993) Nadir
as Self
(1978) Bio’s Bahnhof
as Self
(1971) Samedi soir
as Self