Pierre Schaeffer

...a list of the fictional and nonfictional writings of the electroacoustic musician-theoretician and pioneer of musique concrete, Pierre Schaeffer. The Old Man And His Movements (1964) The Guardian of The Volcano (1969) Excuse Me, I'm...

...to work on the tape parts of Deserts and La riviere endormie (Palombini 1999). Between 1952 and 1956 Schaeffer's commitments to RTF led him to appoint Philippe Arthuys with responsibility for the GRMC, with Pierre Henry operating as...

In this article: Pierre Henry, Francois Bayle, Shellac, Musique concrete, Olivier Messiaen, Michel Philippot, Jean Barraque, and Edgar Varese

...and music he began to work for the ORTF (French Radio and Television Organisation) Service de La recherche as assistant to Pierre Schaeffer in 1970. He was a member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) between 1971 - 1976. His...

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...on the development of musique concrete. The collection is discussed, among other works of Schaeffer's, in chapter two of Robert Martial's Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions a Orphee. In this text, some have suggested, Schaeffer...

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...piano and was already composing before having heard a broadcast by the founder of musique concrete Pierre Schaeffer. She met him shortly thereafter in the early 50s and became his student while working periodically during visits to...

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...as the Society for the Emancipation of Samples) would likely be seen as a simple homage to the tape manipulations of Pierre Schaeffer and the musique concrete movement of the late '40s. However, something changed significantly in the...

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...acousmatic as: Acousmatic, adjective: referring to a sound that one hears without seeing the causes behind it (Schaeffer 1966: 91). Schaeffer held that the acousmatic listening experience was one that reduced sounds to the field of hearing...

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...but disclaims a relationship with the Acousmatic music of French musique concrete pioneer Pierre Schaeffer. He accepts the "spectralist" label, though he distinguishes his work from some others in the spectral school in that it is not...

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...that the polite word is "idiosyncratic") type of ambient, chilled electronica that takes influence from the pioneering work of Pierre Schaeffer. For those of you scratching your head in a Laurel & Hardy fashion, Schaeffer virtually...

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...Updated: 12:01am GMT 20/11/2008 Ivan Hewett looks at the origins of musique concrete, revisited in a 60th anniversary tribute to Pierre Schaeffer Sixty years ago, on the evening of October 5, 1948, the homes of thousands of Frenchmen...

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