Polytope de Montréal

Polytope de Montréal was a media installation in the French Pavilion, which now houses Casino de Montréal. The installation included a sculpture, light show, and musical composition designed and composed by Iannis Xenakis, for the opening of the Ottawa Art Gallery following Expo 67. The piece is one of many "Polytopes" (flat-sided geometric object, e.g., polyhedron) by Xenakis.

The light sculpture consisted of, "a geometric array of steel cables stretching up through the multi-tiered atrium of the building, with 1,200 flashbulbs attached to the cables."^[1]

The piece led to the commission of Kraanerg.

Sources

↑ Harley, James (2008). "Liner notes", Kraanerg. Mode 196.

External links

Oswalt, Phillipp (1991). "Iannis Xenakisis' Polytopes", Oswalt.de.
"Réalisations architecturales", Iannis-Xenakis.org.

Iannis Xenakis

Major compositions	Six Chansons pour piano (1950) Metastaseis (1953–1954) Pithoprakta (1955–1956) Herma (1961) Nomos Alpha (1965–1966) Polytope de Montréal (1967) Kraanerg (1968) Persephassa (1969) Evryali (1973) Psappha (1975) Pléïades (1979) Komboï (1981) Rebonds (1989) Troorkh (1991)

Collaborators and influences	Le Corbusier Pierre Schaeffer Edgard Varèse

Publications	Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (1992)

Related articles	CCMIX Indeterminacy in music List of compositions Musique concrète Stochastic music

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