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À La Recherche D'une Musique Concrète
''In Search of a Concrete Music'' (French: ''À la recherche d'une musique concrète''), written and published in 1952 in literature, 1952, is a French language publication which forms a major part of the experimental music, experimental composer and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer's Bibliography of Pierre Schaeffer, collection of works written to record his own undertakings on the development of musique concrète. The collection is discussed, among other works of Schaeffer's, in chapter two of Robert Martial's ''Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions à Orphée''.Martial, Robert. ''Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions à Orphée.'' Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999. () In this text, some have suggested, Schaeffer imagined a computerized music studio: Contents * DÉDICACE * 1ER JOURNAL, 1948–1949 * 2E JOURNAL, 1950–1951 * 3 EXPÉRIENCE CONCRÈTE, 1952 * 4 ESQUISSE D'UN SOLFÈGE CONCRET Notes References Delalande, François. "D’une technologie à l’autre." ''Enjeux et in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: , ; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His innovative work in both the sciences—particularly communications and acoustics—and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end of World War II, as well as his anti-nuclear activism and cultural criticism garnered him widespread recognition in his lifetime. Amongst the vast range of works and projects he undertook, Schaeffer is most widely and currently recognized for his accomplishments in electronic and experimental music, at the core of which stands his role as the chief developer of a unique and early form of avant-garde music known as musique concrète. The genre emerged in Europe from the utilization of new music technology developed in the post-war era, following the advance of electroacoustic and acous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |