PULSE FIELD Audio Playlist
Title: Musique Concrete
Date: Wednesday January 22
Description:
Musique
Concrete
Schaeffer chose to
name his new art musique concrete to differentiate it from normal music,
musique abstraite.
Music concrete was
recorded directly to tape with real (concrete) sounds , while musique abstraite
was the traditional way of composing by writing down the score to be played
later.
Music Concrete was
based on manipulation of tape. (Although the first research involved phonograph
records, eventually tape technology became more available, and with it the
possibilities of splicing and pasting parts together versus a non-re-recordable
fixed format). It also concentrated on 'found sounds' or natural recordings
rather than electronically produced sounds such as created by synthesizers.
Pieces that would
last only a few minutes could take months of recording, cutting and splicing to
create. Here are some of the tape techniques used.
The lengths the
fathers of electronic music went to create a new sound is amazing. The
excitement of pushing through new frontiers of sound must have been
exhilarating. We take the technologies available today for granted...and
perhaps in the far future, the technologies of today will be looked back on with
the same amazement.
***please use linked websites for further details of recordings. www.ubu.com is especially extensive.
10:00 am
Pierre Schaeffer, ‘les incunables 1948 –1979’(58:39)
http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/schaef.html
11:00 am
Pierre Schaeffer, ‘les oeuvres communes’ 1950-
1953
(23:21)
Pierre Henry, ‘Echo d’Orphee (39:58)
12:00 pm
Pierre Schaeffer, ‘les revisions’ 1948-1979 + ‘les
oeuvres
posterleures’ 1957-1959 &
1975-1979
1:00 pm
‘Archival Series:
Musique Concrete Soundtracks to Experimental short Films 1956-1978. Volumes I-III.
·
Tom
Dissevelt
·
Gershon
Kingsley
·
Percy
Grainger
·
Pierre
Boulez
·
Joan
LaBarbara
·
Bernard
Parmegiani
·
Wlodzimierz
Kotonski
·
Pierre
Henry
·
Wlodzimierz
Kotonski
2:00 pm
Jean-Luc Godard, ‘Histoire du Cinema Vol.I’ 1997
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/4355/
3:00 pm
Rune Lindblad, ‘Death of the Moon’ 1953-1960 (77:00)
http://www.mic.stim.se/Avd/Mic/Prod/micnews.nsf/pubdocurls/C1EBAB43B83D291EC1256AD8002EA69D
4:20 pm
Vladimir Ussachevsky, ‘Film Music’ 1956-1967 (70:00)
www.composersrecordings.com/cd/813.html