XENAKIS - VINYL PERSEPOLIS [VINYL]

Popis - PERSEPOLIS [VINYL]:
'Persepolis' is the longest electroacoustic composition by Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), who ranks among the most influential 20th century avantgarde composers. Commissioned by the Persian Shah, the piece was part of a multimedia performance, called 'Polytopes', which premiered in 1971 in Shiraz-Persepolis (Iran) as a performance including light-tracks, laser beams, groups of children walking around with torches and 59 loudspeakers to project the music in an open-air situation. Out of print for decades now, the LP became -especially the Japanese edition from 1974- one of the most expensive collectors items of electroacoustic music. There were some later CD versions with different durations, too long due to a wrong sample rate, others shortened by 3 minutes due to other reasons. This version was mixed from the original 8 track master tapes by longtime Zeitkratzer sound engineer Martin Wurmnest and mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin.