condition (record/cover): NM / NM Silver foil front, white back sleeve. Black labels.  André Boucourechliev shares Balkan origins and Parisian arrival with Iannis Xenakis, but the resemblances end there. The Archipel series defines him: archipelagos as open structures, sonic islands that performers can navigate in different orders. Archipel 3 on Philips documents this poetics of controlled indeterminacy.

Where John Cage entrusted decisions to chance operations, Boucourechliev entrusts them to the interpreter. The score becomes map rather than mandatory route. The performer chooses among foreseen possibilities, composing in the moment of execution. Each performance charts a different voyage through the same territory. Philips's prestige series granted this experimental work broader distribution than it might otherwise have found, introducing adventurous listeners to a composer who refused to fix his music in single form.