"Designing Sound, Sculpting Gesture" by Dr Evis Sammoutis

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What if you could draw sound? What if there was a way to sketch music that was so intuitive that school children could pick it up with ease, yet powerful enough that it could revolutionise the creative process for professional composers, liberating them from the constraints of traditional notation?

In 1977 visionary Greek-French composer and polymath Iannis Xenakis brought this idea to life with UPIC, a groundbreaking machine that transformed visual gestures into audio signals; a user could draw on a board and UPIC would convert these drawings into sound. Join Dr Evis Sammoutis as he discusses how Xenakis’s pioneering work has profoundly shaped his own music compositional journey, inspiring him to explore the deep connections between drawing and music and between what we see and what we hear.