ABSTRACT
The chronicle in this chapter illuminates an arc of interaction that brought about Iannis Xenakis’s creation of a house design for us, and intended for Southern California’s Anza-Borrego desert. This chronicle traces thoughts, proposals, and exchanges as documented in letters, diaries, sketches, and person-to-person conversation. One can observe what were at first primarily musical encounters develop from a distant and occasional nature toward a warm, responsive, and more continuous interaction – we sometimes flew across oceans to be together. A culmination emerged during the house planning process. Xenakis remarked in 1992 that the designs he had created on our behalf were “as though they were for myself.” For convenience in moving back and forth between various perspectives on the overall process, significant events are numbered here in their order of occurrence. They include letters, notes taken, and encounters of various sorts. Each entry indicates, as relevant, the nature of the occasion as well as whom or what initiated it. This chronicle approach allows for convenient connectivity across all of the following chapters.
