FROM HARMONY TO CHAOS. LE CORBUSIER, VARESE, XENAKIS. AND LA POEME ELECTRONIC

Le poème électronique was the multimedia event presented in the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels Worlds Fair of 1958. The structu re and genesis of the event are discussed in this publication against a background of the conceptual viewpoints of the three artists involved: Le Corbusier, Edgard Varèse, and Iannis Xenakis. Despite that Philips ultimately showed its own vision of this spectacle of colour, light, and sound, the book deals with the scenario as it was originally planned, offering a new reconstruction based on a n in-depth a...[Read more]