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Iannis Xenakis (born 29 May 1922, Brăila, Romania - died 4 February 2001, Paris, France) was a Romanian-born Greek-French composer, music theorist, architect, and engineer. He is regarded as one of the most radical and important composers of the twentieth century. In the early 1950s, he formulated a theory of stochastic music and was accepted as a member of the Groupe De Recherche De Musique Concrète in late 1954. He later joined another group and pioneered the use of computers for musical composition in 1961. As an architect, he worked with notable figures and designed the Philips Pavilion for the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. In 1963, he published "Musique Formelles," a collection of his articles relating music, architecture, and mathematics. In 1972, he founded CEMAMu (Centre d'Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales) in Issy-les-Moulineaux, just outside of Paris. Throughout his career, he composed for a wide range of instrumental ensembles and solos, and his 'polytopes,' sound and light spectacles, have been performed in various locations, including Persepolis (1971), Paris (1972), Mycénes (1978), and again in Paris (1978).

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