Pierre Schaeffer and the Ethics of Experimental Music Research
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2026
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399539234 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
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The first monograph in English to offer a comprehensive account of Pierre Schaeffer’s music philosophy including his varied career as a writer, broadcaster, philosopher and musician.
What should musicians and their audiences do with evolving broadcast and recording technologies? This is the question that occupied French writer and engineer Pierre Schaeffer from his first radio job in 1936 until his retirement as Director of the Research Service of the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) in 1974, and then for another 20 years as founding figurehead of the pioneering music research institution he had founded in the meantime, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). This book illuminates the varied literary, philosophical, political and religious investments that informed Schaeffer’s quest for an ethical system of experimental music research as he traversed this turbulent period in French cultural and intellectual history. Readers interested in the philosophy behind Schaeffer’s well-known musical inventions will find a surprising and original account of an adventurous thinker at the intersection of war, technoscience, decolonisation, phenomenology, New Age spirituality and countercultural rebellion.
What should musicians and their audiences do with evolving broadcast and recording technologies? This is the question that occupied French writer and engineer Pierre Schaeffer from his first radio job in 1936 until his retirement as Director of the Research Service of the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) in 1974, and then for another 20 years as founding figurehead of the pioneering music research institution he had founded in the meantime, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). This book illuminates the varied literary, philosophical, political and religious investments that informed Schaeffer’s quest for an ethical system of experimental music research as he traversed this turbulent period in French cultural and intellectual history. Readers interested in the philosophy behind Schaeffer’s well-known musical inventions will find a surprising and original account of an adventurous thinker at the intersection of war, technoscience, decolonisation, phenomenology, New Age spirituality and countercultural rebellion.
Patrick Valiquet has taught music research at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Bidston Observatory, and the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Huddersfield. He studies the history and philosophy of experimental music in the francophone world.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: For the Listener of the Future
1. Dialogue with Monsters, 1936-1956
2. Deconditioning, 1953-1966
3. Russian Dolls, Power and Communication, 1966-1971
4. Transductions, 1968-1980
Conclusion: The Closed Loop
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Resonances |
| Zusatzinfo | 5 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399539234 / 9781399539234 |
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