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Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis was born May 29, 1922, in Romania and died February 4, 2001, in Paris, France. He was a composer, architect, and mathematician who originated musique stochastique, music composed with the aid of electronic computers and based upon mathematical probability systems.

JACK Quartet performs Xenakis’ scratchy masterpiece Tetras on May 6 at 5:30p.

Learn more about Iannis Xenakis here.