Iannis Xenakis was a highly original Greek composer, known for using mathematic principles in his compositions. Born in Romania, Xenakis was part of the Greek Resistance during World War II, then later moved to France, where he worked as an architect with Le Corbusier and studied composition with Oli

20th-century music, Abstract, Architectural, Atmospheric, Experimental, Intense, Musique concrete

20th-century Italian composer Luciano Berio embraced many forms of music, from twelve-tone modernism, to Romanticism, to folk musics. His works range from pieces for solo instruments (called Sequenzas), to electroacoustic works, to works for orchestra. Berio was particularly fascinated with the capab

Abstract, Classical, Complex, Experimental, Layered, Pioneering, Playful

In the middle of the twentieth century, a group of friends – writers, artists, and intellectuals – formed what would later prove to be one of the most artistically and intellectually innovative groups of the period; they have since been given the name the Barranquilla Group, after the northern Co

Abstract, Complex, Deconstructive, Experimental, Fantastic, Journalism, Kaleidoscopic, Pioneering, Playful, Postmodern fiction

György Ligeti was a 20th-century Hungarian composer, most well-known for his works used in the films of Stanley Kubrick. Ligeti’s early works were influenced by his countryman Béla Bartók. After fleeing Hungary’s communist regime in the late 1950s, Ligeti arrived in Cologne and worked in an el

Abstract, Architectural, Atmospheric, Beautiful , Enigmatic, Pioneering