A Revolution in Music (eBook)

The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales

Évelyne Gayou (Autor)

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2025
424 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40978-1 (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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-520-40978-7 / 0520409787
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-40978-1 / 9780520409781