Iannis Xenakis
Greek-French composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Giannis Klearchou Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek-French communist avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalised citizen of France eighteen years later. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models in music such as applications of set theory, stochastic processes and game theory and was also an important influence on the development of electronic and computer music. He integrated music with architecture, designing music for pre-existing spaces, and designing spaces to be integrated with specific music compositions and performances.
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