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Composer Xenakis dead @ 78
"Like other of his works, "Metastasis" and "Pithoprakta" were regulated by Poisson's Law of
Large Numbers, which implies that the more numerous the phenomena, the more they tend toward a determinate end — as in flipping a coin. "I have tried to inject determinism into what we call chance," said Mr. Xenakis, who used the scientific word "stochastic" to give a name to this idea of probability in music."