This firs time Xenakis' music has appeared on DVD, with these special DVD features:

• This new mix was created by Xenakis' associate Gerard Pape from the original analog master tape, transferred at high-resolution 96khz/24-bit sound for the optimum quality.
• Use of the original master tape restored almost 2 minutes and 30 seconds to the piece, released here for the first time.
• The performance of La Légende d'Eer is shown with a film by Bruno Rastoin, comprised of 350 stills made during the original performance of the work at the "Diatope". This is the ONLY visual documentation made of the historic event.
• 60-minute Interview of Iannis Xenakis by musicologist Harry Halbreich.
• 5.1 Surround Sound in Dolby Digital and additional DTS.
• Dedicated stereo mix presented in 96-khz/24-bit PCM.
• Subtitles: French, German, Spanish.
• Playable on ALL NTSC capable DVD decks and computers.
  

'La légende d'Eer' is a powerful 7-channel electro-acoustic composition which Xenakis created in 1977-78 to be played in "Le Diatope", a curvaceous architectural construction designed by the composer, together with a visual component including laser lights. This "multi-media" work was composed for the opening of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, where it was performed for three months and seen by thousands of people.
The sound materials of a La légende d'Eer stem from three sources: instrumental sounds, noises, and electronically generated sounds. The work suggests an initial departure, a journey, and a final return. Xenakis surrounds the work with a compilation of five texts, reflecting or reacting upon each other across the distances in time, space, and culture which separate them.
This new stereo mix was created by Gerard Pape - director of Xenakis' CCMIX studio in Paris - from the original analog master tape.
The analog master was transferred at high-resolution 96khz/24-bit sound for the optimum quality, revealing details not heard in the previous stereo CD release (now deleted).
Use of the original master tape restored almost 2 minutes and 30 seconds to the piece, released here for the first time.