Giancarlo Toniutti in a book-length conversation with Aram Yardumian, from his teenage tapes to Xenakis, René Thom and field recording, with archival photos, a full index of works and a CD of three new pieces.
In Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis, Dr. Aram Yardumian situates the composer’s monumental electroacoustic piece amid wartime biography, architectural practice and Iranian state spectacle, tracing how one work came to shadow both the Shiraz Festival and the Revolution that followed.