A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive This page from Drawing Papers 88 features “Study for Erikhthon,” drawn with ink and pencil on paper by #IannisXenakis in 1973. The 2010 exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explored the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). A leading figure in twentieth century music, Xenakis was trained as a civil engineer, then became an architect and developed revolutionary designs while working with Le Corbusier. Comprised of nearly 100 documents created between 1953 and 1984, the exhibition included rarely-seen hand-rendered scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and graphic scores. Co-curator of the exhibition, Carey Lovelace, writes in her catalogue essay that Xenakis’s preparatory drawings for the seventeen-and-a-half-minute piano concerto, Erikhthon, consist of spidery shapes that “were inscribed along two ‘tracks’ – an upper, nar...