Friday, February 23, 2007
MORPHO'S FINE-FEATHERED FLASHBACK
Edgard Varèse - Poeme Electronique
A multi-media piece created for the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair by the pioneering trinity of Edgard Varèse, Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis. In its original manifestation the poem featured 425 speakers positioned throughout Le Corbusier’s Philips Pavilion, an intricately arranged space that opened ears to new electronic sounds and kept eyes swirling with fluttery film projections.
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Very awesome, Morpho. Thanks for giving me some good Wiki pages to read.
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