Makis Solomos

Musicologist, Senior lecturer at University of Montpellier-III

Makis Solomos was born in 1962 in Athens. He is living in Paris since 1980 and is currently maître de conférences at University Montpellier 3 and membre junior of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research domains are :

 Xenakis. He has written a PhD, about 30 articles and a book (Iannis Xenakis, Mercuès, PO Editions, 1996) on his music and has organized the first international symposium on him (proceedings : Présences de / Presences of Iannis Xenakis, Paris, Cdmc, 2001). He is preparing a new book, Entendre, tendre vers la musique de Xenakis and a new symposium. In collaboration with Sharon Kanach and Benoît Gibson, he is working on a critical edition of Xenakis' writings.

 Modern music, from Debussy to John Zorn, from Adorno to questions on technologies and on globalization in music. He has published about 40 articles, edited or co-edited the books L'espace : musique-philosophie (Paris, l'Harmattan, 1998), Musiques, arts, technologies. Pour une approche critique (Paris, L'Harmattan, 2003) and La métaphore lumineuse : Xenakis-Grisey (forthcoming), and co-written the book Formel-Informel : musique-philosophie (Paris, l'Harmattan, 2003). He is preparing a book on the emergence of sound, De la musique au son. Notes pour une histoire multiple de la musique du 20e siècle, and is editing a book on the music of Horacio Vaggione.

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