xenakis quote source

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

the quote (in a better context) is as follows:

"It is not so much the inevitable use of mathematics that characterizes the
attitude of these experiments, as the overriding need to consider sound and
music as a vast potential reservoir in which a knowledge of the laws of
thought and the structured creations of thought may find a completely new
medium of materialization, i.e., of communication.

For this purpose the qualification 'beautiful' or 'ugly' makes no sense for
sound, nor for the music that derives from it; the quantity of intelligence
carried by the sounds must be the true criterion of the validity of a
particular music."

"Formalized Music" - Iannis Xenakis   Preface/pg ix

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