After doing a little searching online about Xenakis I found this awesome youtube of a piece called Rebonds which is amazing! I have been listening to it all week, this guy is insane on the blocks, floor tom, congas etc. Here is the video of a guy playing the all percussion based piece. Amazing!!

I love his avante guarde style as seen in the piece Metasta.This orchestral piece is inspired by a combination of Einsteins concept of time and Xenakis's memory of war pieces and sounds. Xenakis was also a well accomplished architect whose concept of music played into his architecture. He said that while space can be seen from multiple angles and directions, music can only be seen by one.

Phillip Glass is very similar to john cage who i wrote about last week when pertaining to minimalist music. I love this style. It is essentially compositions with a repetative melody. It builds on itself creating a wonderful experience. He has written scores for movies such as the Illusionist which is amazing as well as video games such as Grand Theft auto.

Here are my 5 mixes from sounds from FreeSound, Enjoy

-Tim