Les Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet

"Starting in the early 1950s, the sculptor François Baschet and his engineer brother Bernard built a range of “structures sonores” – a term variously translated as sound structures or sonorous sculptures. Among their creations was the poetically named Voice Leaf, a glossy metallic shield that transformed the performer’s voice into an unearthly keening wail. Most famously there was the Cristal Baschet, a glittering array of glass rods that produced piercing drone-tones when rubbed by the performer. Teaming up with the composer-musician Jacques Lasry and his organ-playing wife Yvonne as the ensemble Lasry-Baschet, they performed concerts and made records like Chronophagie...." (read more here) 
== Links to Peel == 
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Peel discovered the records of Les Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet while hosting his Night Ride programme in 1968 and 1969. How he found out about them is not known - perhaps from one of the producers he worked with on Night Ride. They were little known yet apparently had been considered for the theme music for the TV series Dr. Who before the job was given to Delia Derbyshire. JP played a number of tracks by them on Night Rides, and praised them in his column in International Times:
If you've heard the Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet then you will care to own "Chronophagie" on French Arion 30 S 060 also available from those EMI import places as are the three 10" LPs on BAM. If the Pink Floyd were not available to do the music for any space film then Lasry-Baschet could do nicely. Now that would be a Super Session - Les Structures Sonores presque Rouge and what is the French for Floyd anyway?
He doesn't seem to have revisited their music after this, though the Structures Sonores proved to be widely influential in the fields of experimental and electronic music.
== Festive Fifty Entries ==
None.
== Sessions ==
None.
== Other Shows Played ==
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;1968
*26 June 1968: Rhapsodie de Budapest (45 rpm) Ducretet-Thomson # 
*10 July 1968: Marche 
*31 July 1968: New Pieces 
;1969
*19 March 1969: Adagio En Ré Mineur or Adagio En Sol Mineur (album - N° 4) BAM LD 098
*23 April 1969: ? (album - N° 4) BAM LD 098 
*21 May 1969: unknown 
*13 August 1969: Marche (LP - Pièces Nouvelles / Marche / Suite / Sonatine / Valse / Spontanéité) BAM
== See Also ==
*International Times: Perfumed Garden Column
== External Links ==
*Wikipedia on the Baschet Brothers 
*Official site
*Discogs
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