Friday, 6 April

Immerse yourself in a mesmerizing reconstruction of Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis’s unprecedented multimedia performance Le poème électronique. An artistic and technological milestone when it was first unveiled at the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958, the piece features a powerful mix of Le Corbusier’s footage and projections of coloured planes, as well as groundbreaking sound recordings by Xenakis and Edgard Varèse. Based on film material preserved by EYE and Le Corbusier’s original script, architect Jan de Heer and composer Kees Tazelaar have recreated Le poème électronique as an immersive audiovisual experience.

Following the performance, Kees Tazelaar and Jan de Heer will discuss the work’s pioneering compositional and architectural achievements, respectively.