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Musique concrète (French pronunciation: [myzik kɔ̃kʁɛt]; lit. ' concrete music ') [nb 1] is a type of music composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material. [1] Sounds are often modified through the application of audio signal processing and tape music techniques, and may be assembled into a form of sound collage.
The term musique concrète (French for "real music", literally "concrete music"), was coined by Schaeffer in 1948. [16] Schaeffer believed traditionally classical (or as he called it, "serious") music begins as an abstraction (musical notation) that is later produced as audible music.
The origin of sound collage can be traced back to the works of Biber's programmatic sonata Battalia (1673) and Mozart's Don Giovanni (1789), and certain passages in Mahler symphonies as collage, but the first fully developed collages occur in a few works by Charles Ives, whose piece Central Park in the Dark (1906) creates the feeling of a walk in the city by layering several distinct melodies ...
Concret PH (1958) is a musique concrète piece by Iannis Xenakis, originally created for the Philips Pavilion (designed by Xenakis as Le Corbusier's assistant) at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair and heard as audiences entered and exited the building (PH = paraboloïdes hyperboliques, concret = reinforced concrete/musique concrète).
During compilation and sequencing of the master tape for the album The Beatles, two unrelated segments were included between the previous song ("Cry Baby Cry") and "Revolution 9". [30] The first was a fragment of a song based on the line "Can you take me back", an improvisation sung by McCartney that was recorded between takes of "I Will".
He became fascinated with the integration of noise into music, now called noise music. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, and Félix Passerone at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1938 to 1948. [4] Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked at the Club d'Essai studio at RTF, which had been founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1942. [4]
French electronic music is a panorama of French music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production.. Notable early French artists and composers in electronic music include Maurice Martenot, the inventor of the Ondes Martenot in 1928, and Pierre Schaeffer, the developer of the musique concrète in 1948.
"Are You Hung Up?" is a short montage of dialogue and musique concrète, lasting 1 minute and 24 seconds.It includes stuttering hippie vocals by Eric Clapton, "Uh, out of sight.