In Search of a Concrete Music


In Search of a Concrete Music, written and published in 1952, is a French language publication which forms a major part of the experimental composer and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer's Bibliography of [Pierre Schaeffer|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:

Contents

  • DÉDICACE
  • 1ER JOURNAL, 1948–1949
  • 2E JOURNAL, 1950–1951
  • 3 EXPÉRIENCE CONCRÈTE, 1952
  • 4 ESQUISSE D'UN SOLFÈGE CONCRET