Pierre Schaeffer bibliography


The bibliography of Pierre Schaeffer
is a list of the fictional and nonfictional writings of the electroacoustic musician-theoretician and pioneer of musique concrète, Pierre Schaeffer.

List

Fiction

Novels and short stories

The Choirboys not choir but heart The Old Man and His Movements The Guardian of The Volcano Excuse Me, I'm Dying and Other Fabulations Prelude, Choral and Fugue
  • ''Faber and Sapiens''

Plays

Tobie
  • ''Secular Games''

Non-fiction

Clotaire Nicole America, We Ignore You In Search of a Concrete Music Towards an Experimental Music: Under the Direction of Pierre Schaeffer *Treatise on Musical Objects Concrete Music Music and Acoustics The Future Backwards Machines for Communicating 1. Genesis of Simulacra From Musical Experience to the Human Experience The Service of Research: Structures and Orientation
* An expanded version published by Richard-Masse later in 1957, based upon the article of the same name.

Articles and essays

Basic Truths The Non-Visual Element of Films Introduction to Concrete Music To Give Ear, To Give Thought The Musical Object The Experience of Concrete Music Towards an Experimental Music *Musical Experiences. Music More Concrete, More Electronic, More Exotic Experiences in Paris, June 1959 The Old Man New Reflections on the Communication Triangle Machines for Communicating Music and Computers The Press of Television: A Mediator Society in the Mirror Music for the Year 2000 The Communication Triangle Development of Public Service Television Networks: Prospects, Symptoms and Basic Assumptions Letter to the Researchers of Men Machines for Communicating, Machines for Calculating The Television in Public Services Sound and Communication The Audiovisual: Method of Communication or Common Knowledge?
In Search of Music Itself Darwin and Marconi or the End of Television
* An article published 1957, later that year expanded into a book of the same name.

Collaborative works

Conversations with Pierre Schaeffer Pierre Schaeffer followed by Reflections of Pierre Schaeffer Machines for Communicating 2. Power and Communication The Regulation of Microbic Sporulation The Semiotics of Representation: Theatre, Television, and Comics Pierre Schaeffer: From Concrete Music to Music Itself The Antennas of Jericho Guide to Acoustic Objects: Pierre Schaeffer and Musical Research The Gentle Revolution: Musique Concrète
  • ''A Visit to Brangues: Conversations Between Paul Claudel, Jacques Madaule and Pierre Schaeffer''