In search of a concrete music
By: Pierre Schaeffer ; translated by Christine North and John Dack
Contributors: North, Christine, translator; Dack, John, translator
Series: California studies in 20th-century music -- 15
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780520265738; 9780520265745
Subjects: Musique concrète; History and criticism
Work titles: A la recherche d'une musique concrète
Description: Pierre Schaeffer's In Search of a Concrete Music (A la recherche d'une musique concrète) has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer's pioneering work--at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d'être of "concrete music"--Is available for the first time in English translation. Schaeffer's theories have had a profound influence on composers working with technology. However, they extend beyond the confines of the studio and are applicable to many areas of contemporary musical thought, such as defining an "instrument" and classifying sounds. Schaeffer has also become increasingly relevant to DJs and hip-hop producers as well as sound-based media artists [Publisher description].
Notes: Originally published: A la recherche d'une musique concrète / Pierre Schaeffer. Paris :  Éditions du Seuil, 1952.

Includes bibliographical references and index.