On 08/11/00 19:28, Giles Dickerson said in living color:
quoted 5 lines Could people throw back maybe the 5 or 10 records or artists I> Could people throw back maybe the 5 or 10 records or artists I
> absolutely have to listen to to get the musique concrete feel? This is a
> genre I have not explored and I have a neighbor that seems like he knows
> what he's talking about and wantsa to share, just want to make sure he's
> not spouting steam.
Strange, I've been posting stuff on this subject in various forums in the
last few days...
It all depends on what you classify as "musique concrète"... The titles in
the following list take the term in a very broad sense (electroacoustic
music somewhat related to a "French aesthetic"). It is a bit random (what
currently pops up in my mind), except for the first two.
2 essential masterpieces:
- "L'Apocalypse de Jean" (Pierre Henry)
- "De Natura Sonorum" (Bernard Parmegiani) -> Unfortunately out of print
- Other Henry of particular interest: "Messe de Liverpool",
"Mouvement-Rhythme-Étude", "La Reine Verte" [not currently available in its
entirety... :(], etc.
- Other Parmegiani of particular interest: "La Création du Monde",
"Violostries", "Pour en finir avec le pouvoir d'Orphée", etc.
As you can see, I consider Henry and Parmegiani to be the two biggest names
in the "genre".
Other stuff:
- Edgar Varèse: "Poème électronique"
- Iannis Xenakis: "Bohor", "Concret PH", "Orient-Occident", etc.
- Francis Dhomont: "Sous le regard d'un soleil noir", "Les dérives du signe"
(these are albums)
- François Bayle: Son-Vitesse-Lumière (also an album)
etc. etc. etc. That's just a beginning.
Oh, to get an idea of the very beginnings of musique concrète, you have to
listen to Pierre Schaeffer's various Études (Étude aux chemins de fer, Étude
aux tourniquets, Étude noire, etc.). The later Études are also quite
interesting (in fact, they're probably of a greater musical interest than
the early ones, IMO).
g.
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