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These journals were published in 1952 as A la recherche d'une musique concrète, and according to Brian Kane, author of Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice, Schaeffer was driven by: "a compositional desire to construct music from concrete objects – no matter how unsatisfactory the initial results – and a theoretical desire ...
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: / p iː ˈ ɛər ˈ h ɛ n r iː m ə ˈ r iː ˈ ʃ eɪ f ər / ⓘ, French pronunciation:; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) [1] was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC).
In Search of a Concrete Music [1] (French: À la recherche d'une musique concrète), written and published in 1952, is a French language publication which forms a major part of the experimental composer and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer's collection of works written to record his own undertakings on the development of musique concrète.
Surrealist music is music which uses unexpected juxtapositions and other surrealist techniques.Discussing Theodor W. Adorno, Max Paddison defines surrealist music as that which "juxtaposes its historically devalued fragments in a montage-like manner which enables them to yield up new meanings within a new aesthetic unity", [1] though Lloyd Whitesell says this is Paddison's gloss of the term. [2]
"Coin Laundry" is a song performed and written by Australian singer–songwriter Lisa Mitchell from her first studio album, Wonder (2009). It was released as the lead single from the album on 24 April 2009 by Scorpio Music. The song was produced by Dann Hume and is about finding love at the coin laundry. [1] "
Au vent mauvais Qui m'emporte Deçà, delà, Pareil à la Feuille morte. The long sobs Of violins Of autumn Wound my heart With a monotonous Languor. All breathless And pale, when The hour sounds, I remember The old days And I cry; And I go In the ill wind That carries me Here, there, Like the Dead leaf.
Music of Changes is a piece for solo piano by John Cage. Composed in 1951 for pianist and friend David Tudor , it is a ground-breaking piece of indeterminate music . The process of composition involved applying decisions made using the I Ching , a Chinese classic text that is commonly used as a divination system.
On the Threshold of Liberty (in French, Au seuil de la liberté) refers to two oil on canvas paintings by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte.The work depicts a large room with the walls paneled with different scenes or windows.