musique concrÃ¨te (, meaning "concrete music") is a form of electroacoustic music that is made in part from acousmatic sound. it can feature sounds derived from recordings of musical instruments, voice, and the natural environment as well as those created using synthesizers and computer-based digital signal processing. also, compositions in this idiom are not restricted to the normal musical rules of melody, harmony, rhythm, metre, and so on. originally contrasted with "pure" elektronische musik (based solely on the production and manipulation of electronically produced sounds rather than recorded sounds), the theoretical basis of musique concrÃ¨te as a compositional practice was developed by pierre schaeffer, beginning in the early 1940s. ==history== ===beginnings===  in 1928 the music critic andrÃ© cÅuroy, wrote in the panorama of contemporary music that "perhaps the time is not far off when a composer will be able to represent through recording, music specifically composed for the gramophone" . in the same period the american composer henry cowell, in referring to the projects of nikolai lopatnikoff, believed that "there was a wide field open for the composition of music for phonographic discs." this sentiment was echoed further in 1930 by igor stravinsky, when he stated in the revue kultur und schallplatte that "there will be a greater interest in creating music in a way that will be peculiar to the gramophone record." the following year, 1931, boris de schloezer also expressed the opinion that one could write for the gramophone or for the wireless just as one can for the piano or the violin . shortly after, rudolf arnheim discussed the effects of microphonic recording in an essay entitled radio, published in 1936. in it the idea of a creative role for the recording medium was introduced and arnheim stated that: "the rediscovery of the musicality of sound in noise and in language, and the reunification of music, noise and language in order to obtain a unity of material: that is one of the chief artistic tasks of radio" . ===pierre schaeffer and studio d'essai===  upright|thumb|left|schaeffer with the phonogÃ¨ne in 1942 the french composer and theoretician pierre schaeffer, began his exploration of radiophony when he joined jacques copeau and his pupils in the foundation of the studio d'essai de la radiodiffusion nationale. the studio originally functioned as a center for the resistance movement in french radio, which in august 1944 was respons
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