The Poème Électronique in the Philips Pavilion at theWorld Fair of Brussels 1958 was a unique experience, the very first multimedia project to involve a sense of the total experience of vision and sound. Realized by three relevant personalities of contemporary culture, Le Corbusier (conception, coordination and visual show), Varèse (organized spatial sound delivered over 400 loudspeakers), Xenakis (architecture of the pavilion), the Poème Électronique has never been repeated after the Philips Pavilion has been pulled down after the Expo. The Virtual Electronic Poem (VEP) project is reconstructing the lost artwork with virtual reality techniques. In this paper we consider the technical aspects of the reconstruction of the audio part of the Poème by describing the investigations made on the piece and by connecting the Poème to the whole Varèsian production.
Varèse's Poème Electronique regained: evidence from the VEP project
VALLE, ANDREA;LOMBARDO, Vincenzo
2005-01-01
Abstract
The Poème Électronique in the Philips Pavilion at theWorld Fair of Brussels 1958 was a unique experience, the very first multimedia project to involve a sense of the total experience of vision and sound. Realized by three relevant personalities of contemporary culture, Le Corbusier (conception, coordination and visual show), Varèse (organized spatial sound delivered over 400 loudspeakers), Xenakis (architecture of the pavilion), the Poème Électronique has never been repeated after the Philips Pavilion has been pulled down after the Expo. The Virtual Electronic Poem (VEP) project is reconstructing the lost artwork with virtual reality techniques. In this paper we consider the technical aspects of the reconstruction of the audio part of the Poème by describing the investigations made on the piece and by connecting the Poème to the whole Varèsian production.
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