Composer Pierre Henry's home studio in Paris has been sold. Until recently, the walls were still covered with musique concrète assemblage sculptures and post-cubist bas-reliefs of printed circuit ...

Nam June Paik was a pioneering creator of interactive sound art before he became a cult figure in the field of video art. While Paik gradually developed interactive sound art in West Germany, he wrote ...

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The term ‘concrète’ music was coined in the 1940s by Paris-based engineer, composer and sonic experimentalist Pierre Schaeffer. Defined as music created using recorded sound as source material (ie ...

Pierre Henry, the influential French composer of electronic and electroacoustic music and sampling pioneer, has passed away at the age of 89. Henry, a trained composer who studied with legendary ...

Splicing and manipulating speech, urban noise and more, this collection shows how strangely beautiful the 84-year-old Argentinian composer’s musique concrète can be Beatriz Ferreyra turned 84 this ...

Musique concrete--basically the electronic manipulation of natural or found sounds--has become part of the international electronic music vocabulary. Even the Beatles’ “Revolution No. 9” and Frank ...