Pierre Schaeffer looking back on his career in musique concrète

Re:Pierre Schaeffer looking back on his career in musique co... by ppqqrr on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @02:28AM (#42374650)

In which Pierre Schaeffer admits that Musique Concrete is not music, and that he has never been a real musician. Ouch… I wonder if he knows there are internet music genres that have not only kept the ideas of Musique Concrete alive, but made them culturally relevant and musically valuable in a way that he and other 20th century “serious” musical thinkers never managed to. Some of the more obscure vaporwave subgenres are basically turntable pieces.

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Re:Pierre Schaeffer looking back on his career in musique co... by spacechild1 on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @06:52AM (#42376003)

You don't have to look as far as obscure internet music genres, though. Musique Concrete set the very basis for sound design and the art of sampling! Today, artists manipulate recorded sounds in software, instead of splicing magnetic tapes, but the fundamental principles are still the same. Most people are not aware to which extend modern music has been (indirectly) shaped by experimental electronic music composers of the 1950s. Its influence can not be overstated.

BTW, there are quite a few composers that have continued the French tradition of Musique Concrete will into the 21st century, most notably Pierre Henry, Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani and Francois Bayle.

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Re:Pierre Schaeffer looking back on his career in musique co... by motohagiography on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @01:13PM (#42379503)

it was absolutely music, it just wasn't very good.

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