Quotes by Iannis Xenakis

The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.
– Iannis Xenakis
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.
– Iannis Xenakis