Roger Reynolds


Update 22 February 2023

Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Chapter 7
Chapter 7






Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music
The Reynolds Desert House


CHAPTER 6  Precedents




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From this Chapter:
For us, the memory of days and nights spent within the metaphoric embrace of this four-part Mâche structure is strangely comforting even now, decades later. Was it the scale, or the curvature of the walls, or the framing of sea and light by the novel fenestrations?

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Also from Chapter 6:
… the full impact of Xenakis’s concepts was not, after all, to be found in their sculptural novelty. It was rather received in immersive waves when one entered the main living room and kitchen area and first became aware of the brilliance of the fenestration concept – how it managed the intense Aegean light, turning illumination itself into a sculptural, multimedia experience. Each moment in the passage of a day presents to this space’s occupants a new geometric superimposition of impinging light, made all the more meaningful because the surfaces upon which it falls combine the straight with the curved surfaces that receive.