Composers: Xenakis
Compositions: Pléïades
Performers: DeciBells
Catalogue Number: Genuin Classics GEN19633

When we look at a star we are also seeing the Milky Way, and it is where that individual pinpoint of light ends and the stellar cluster begins that interested Iannis Xenakis when he wrote his percussion piece Pléïades in 1978. Domenico Melchiorre, leader of the Swiss DeciBells ensemble, puts it well in his liner notes. Our sense of hearing is very fine, he says, but our brains cannot discern all sounds. “In our perception many trees therefore become a forest, we do not hear individual bees, but instead a...