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Country France Media type Print (paperback) ISBN 978-2-02-002572-0 OCLC 1705595 | 4.5/5 Goodreads Language French Pages 228 Originally published 1952 Page count 228 Genres Treatise, Diary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title À la recherche d'une musique concrète Subjects Musique concrète, Acoustics, Music theory, Music technology Similar Capturing Sound, Guide des objets sonores, The danger of music and other, The Art of Noises, Treatise on Musical Objects | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In Search of a Concrete Music (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.
The collection is discussed, among other works of Schaeffer's, in chapter two of Robert Martial's Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions à Orphée.
In this text, some have suggested, Schaeffer imagined a computerized music studio:
La cohérence de cette perspective nous mène […] aux machines de la cybernétique. Seules en effet, des machines de ce genre (probablement de plusieurs tonnes et coûtant des centaines de millions!), que des circuits oscillants dotent d’une certaine mémoire, permettront le jeu infini des combinaisons numériques complexes qui sont la clé de tous les phénomènes musicaux.