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the history of the Groupe de recherches musicales
History of the Groupe de recherches musicales
GRM: Groupe de recherches musicales. English
1 online resource (x, 412 pages) : illustrations
"Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound pioneers: musique concrète. Évelyne Gayou-herself a researcher, composer, and producer at the GRM-tells the history of the storied institution through the people, works, technologies, and research developed there. Placing musique concrète within a broad historical context extending from the early twentieth-century avant-garde's experiments with noise to the development of techniques in sound recording (at the Studio d'Essai in the 1940s) and later in sound synthesis, Gayou shows how recording technology made it possible for composers not only to create music from sounds in the world around them but also to create "acousmatic music"-novel sounds without a visible connection to their source. Available in English translation for the first time, this updated edition will be an important resource for readers interested in the pioneering works and techniques of Schaeffer and his contemporaries, as well as their influence on the makers of new music and the contemporary avant-garde"--
Introduction -- Before 1948 : prehistory -- A name-a school-a style of music -- Concepts-pedagogy-tools -- Space-concert-audience -- In search of music writing -- 1948-1958 : the avant-garde of musique concrète -- 1958-1968 : birth of the GRM -- 1968-1978 : end of the Schaeffer era -- 1978-1988 : real and non-realtime -- : 1988-1998 : innovation -- 1998 and Beyond -- Postscript.
Évelyne Gayou ; translated by David Vaughn.
"Originally published as Le GRM: Groupe de Recherches Musicales (Cinquante ans d'histoire), by Évelyne Gayou. © 2007, Librairie Arthème Fayard." -- title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Groupe de recherches musicales de l'O.R.T.F.
Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France).
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025]