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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 ...

Hey, everybody knows that top ten lists are bunk. You don't need a degree in Bourdieu studies to know that canon-building and canon-tweaking are inevitably relative and contingent exercises, but it's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the bold new experimentalists in New York City, northern Minnesota born trumpeter Rich Johnson explores a mix of trumpet, acoustic guitar and piano with laptop glitch, sampling, and musique ...

Electronic composer and musique concrète pioneer Tod Dockstader has died. Filmmaker Justin H. Brierley, who is currently working on documentary detailing the musician entitled Unlocking Dockstader, ...