Iannis Xenakis: La Légende d'Eer

Karl 024 (LP) - € 25
Immersive & extended electroacoustic composition unearthed (w/ download code)
One of the "most famous works of Xenakis" is the "electroacoustic composition(...) La Légende d’Eer where [he] integrated his stochastic synthesis sounds for the first time. As legendary as this piece itself is the impenetrable thicket of versions and stories around La Légende d’Eer - it exists in different releases, wrong sample rates, digitized backwards … this now is a new version, using the 8-track-version that Xenakis himself presented at Darmstädter Ferienkurse in August 1978. As the automatic spatialization is lost, this became the only original version of this composition and is presented here (mixed down to stereo by Martin Wurmnest who tried to preserve the spatial movements as perceptible as possible – mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M) for the very first time. La Légende d’Eer not only became a milestone of electroacoustic music but is also an important reference for noise and industrial musicians up to the present day".

Tracklisting:

La Légende d'Eer Part 1

La Légende d'Eer Part II