Makis Solomos: Pour la Paix

Pourla Paix (1981, 4 speakers, choir - live or recorded -, and UPIC tape 2 tracks) is a strange piece for Xenakis, because it is based on a narrative text (token from two books from his wife, Françoise Xenakis). The sounds realized with UPIC are either narrative either abstract - sometimes both -, and they sound very rich, richer than his first UPIC piece, Mycènes alpha. The choir parts- the piece can also be performed only with these parts - are also typical for Xenakis, but with no special relationship with the UPIC parts. So the difficulty of the piece lies in its impossible balance between its fhree components. In this paper, we will speak about the genetics, the aesthetics and the performance of the piece.