A Revolution in Music

The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales

Évelyne Gayou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520409767 (ISBN)

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Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound pioneers: musique concrète. Évelyne Gayou—herself a researcher, composer, and producer at the GRM—tells the history of the storied institution through the people, works, technologies, and research developed there. Placing musique concrète within a broad historical context extending from the early twentieth-century avant-garde's experiments with noise to the development of techniques in sound recording (at the Studio d'Essai in the 1940s) and later in sound synthesis, Gayou shows how recording technology made it possible for composers to not only create music from sounds in the world around them but also create acousmatic music—novel sounds without a visible connection to their source. Available in English translation for the first time, this updated edition will be an important resource for readers interested in the pioneering works and techniques of Schaeffer and his contemporaries, as well as their influence on the makers of new music and the contemporary avant-garde.

Évelyne Gayou is a French musicologist and composer, and a member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales since 1975. David Vaughn is an interdisciplinary artist and arts translator, whose extensive translation experience includes an enduring collaboration with the GRM and its associates.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface to the English Edition

Introduction

PART ONE. ORGANIZING FORGETTING: A THEMATIC APPROACH
1. Before 1948: Prehistory
2. A Name—a School—a Style of Music
3. Concepts—Pedagogy—Tools
4. Space—Concert—Audience
5. In Search of Music Writing

PART TWO. MEMORIALIZING THE FACTS: A CHRONOLOGICAL APPROACH
6. 1948–1958: The Avant-Garde of Musique Concrète
7. 1958–1968: Birth of the GRM
8. 1968–1978: End of the Schaeffer Era
9. 1978–1988: Real and Nonreal Time
10: 1988–1998: Innovation
11. 1998 and Beyond

Postscript

Notes
Bibliography—Discography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.01.2025
Übersetzer	David Vaughn
Zusatzinfo	29 b-w figures, 2 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	771 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Technik
ISBN-13	9780520409767 / 9780520409767
Zustand	Neuware