Iannis Xenakis, Pithoprakta for Two Trombones, Strings, Xylophone and Woodblock (1955-6) for Nouritza Matossian the spontaneous architecture of clouds efflorescences of glissandi the probabilistic polyphony of miniscule chaoses within chaoses col legno frappé col legno frotté arco bref arco normal rainbow of pizzicati Brownian molecular motion a cloudy palimpsest beneath micro-wars of insects and continent-wide armies sometimes irregularly in-step sometimes breaking step on bridges in case collective resonance causes them to collapse all is massing towards an entropic future comprehended by no god except music and a Maxwell-Boltzmann formula Jonathan Taylor Note: this poem is inspired by the description of Pithoprakta in Noritza Matossian, Xenakis (Nicosia: Moufflon, 2005). Jonathan Taylor's books include the novels "Melissa" (Salt, 2015) and "Entertaining Strangers" (Salt, 2012), the memoir "Take Me Home" (Granta, 2007), and the poetry collection "Musicolepsy" (Shoestring, 2013). He is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester. His website is www.jonathanptaylor.co.uk."
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