It is possible to reconstruct
Xenakis
’ system. This system is based on a game of oppositions, which can be grouped in two categories: the alloy art science; the axiomatization of musical universalism and specific musical creation. These oppositions, in continuous evolution, finally lead to contradictions, i.e. oppositions that the system can no longer manage.
By searching the deep reasons for this attempt to systematize despite unavoidable contradictions, one discovers the major quality of
Xenakis
’ work: character of utopia, its character of Knowledge.