OP10: xenakis

"Faith"
"Father Figure"
"Everything She Wants"
"Fastlove"
"Kissing a Fool"
"Careless Whisper"
'Blade Runner' OST
"If"
"concret ph"
"I Wanna Fuck You in the Ass"

YEAH I LOVE 'I WANT TO FUCK YOU IN THE ASS' THANX DAVE I'LL STALK YOU LATER.

What does "OP10" mean?

lady if you have to ask etc etc

I like my Xenakis rigorous and/or weird (and unapologetic in either case). I'm not a huge fan of the electronic pieces (although it's been a looong time since I heard concret ph); and the solo percussion pieces are tremendously exciting to see live but ultimately not favorites.

So, 10 in chronological order:
Metastasis (1953-54)
Pithoprakta (1955-56)
Akrata (1964-65)
Anaktoria (1969)
Evryali (1973)
Tetras (1983)
Jonchaies (1983)
Jalons (1986)
Kekrops (1986)
Echange (1989)

btw, looking back at my post later the same day I have no idea what I meant by "rigorous and/or weird (and unapologetic in either case)" ???!!!

More coherent generalizations: I tend not to like the solo pieces because a lot of the best things in Xenakis require sufficiently large forces to build a texture with some density to it. When the note-by-note (sound-by-sound) progress of a single instrument is exposed, I think Xenakis' ideas often seem less compelling (i.e. when 20 cellos are gliss'ing in coordinated directions at coordinated rates, followed by statistically scattered pizzicatos, it sounds great, but it doesn't scale down to a solo context very effectively)

That makes a little more sense maybe

It could be argued that most Xenakis is rigorous and/or weird! I actually like the electronic work - the earlier the better. "Orient/ Occident" is very good. "Concret PH" somewhat over-rated, you wanna listen to "Bohor"!!

isn't anyone gonna give props to "la lagende d'eer" or "persepolis?"

Absolutely Null - they're both great and terrifying!!!