Contributions

  • North, Christine, translator - Contributor
  • Dack, John, translator - Contributor

Publication

2012 - University of California Press, California

Language

English

Word Count

61,000 words, Guess

Page Count

244 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC786.7/5
  • LCCML3817 .S2613 2012

Description

Pierre Schaeffer's In Search of a Concrete Music (A la recherche d'une musique concrète) has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer's pioneering work--at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d'être of "concrete music"--Is available for the first time in English translation. Schaeffer's theories have had a profound influence on composers working with technology. However, they extend beyond the confines of the studio and are applicable to many areas of contemporary musical thought, such as defining an "instrument" and classifying sounds. Schaeffer has also become increasingly relevant to DJs and hip-hop producers as well as sound-based media artists [Publisher description].

Subjects

Series Statement

  • California studies in 20th-century music -- 15

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