For this year’s Night of the Unexpected festival, part of Gaudeamus’ Muziekweek, Martijn Tellinga has produced a performance of Iannis Xenaki’s revolutionary Mycenae Alpha, work for computer that was generated with The UPIC system.
The UPIC enabled Xenakis to compose grahically and transform visual information into sound. The UPIC system was conceived by Iannis Xenakis in the early 1950s, the first version of UPIC was built by Xenakis’ research center in the late 1970s, and continues to be developed to this day. With the performance, original slides of the graphical score of the piece will be shown.
Night of The Unexpected will take place coming friday September 5th at Amsterdam’s Paradiso, 20:30. More information at www.thenightoftheunexpected.nl