Iannis Xenakis

After the lecture on experimental sound it made me realise the possibilities you can explore, at first I thought sound would just be something to add on in post production, it made me realise the impact proper sound can have.

One piece that stuck in my mind was the work of Iannis Xenakis, and his use of synthesised sound, it wasn't like any traditional music I've heard before as it strayed from conventions and most people wouldn't refer to it as music as it lacked the uniform structure, and this is the reason that it intrigued me the most.

He was a trained architect, which means when he created music it was from a mathematical perspective rather than an artistic one, this caused patterns to be created through his music, but patterns that differed from the norm.

Although I can't find an example of his synthetic music, these pieces still show this disjointed patterns throughout his work. It was Iannis Xenakis and Rudolf Pfenninger that where of the first to use these synthesised sounds and at that time it was a complete revolution, and because of their findings it made way for a new genre of music called electroacoustic. 

Electroacoustic music incorporates electrical sound production into compositional practise, it is a new genre of music and I feel like it is a unconventional style of music, and at times can be uncomfortable to listen too, and perhaps this is something work experimenting with in our film. My next step will be to research films that use electroacoustic music and the effect it gives.