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musique concrète
musical composition technique
Also known as: concrete music
- Key People:
- Yoko Ono
- Luciano Berio
- Edgard Varèse
- Pierre Schaeffer
- Related Topics:
- musical composition
musique concrète, (French: “concrete music”), experimental technique of musical composition using recorded sounds as raw material. The technique was developed about 1948 by the French composer Pierre Schaeffer and his associates at the Studio d’Essai (“Experimental Studio”) of the French radio system. The fundamental principle of musique concrète lies in the assemblage of various natural sounds recorded on tape (or, originally, on disks) to produce a montage of sound. During the preparation of such a composition, the sounds selected and recorded may be modified in any way desired—played backward, cut short or extended, subjected to echo-chamber effects, varied in pitch ...(100 of 233 words)