September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
book
The Daily Book of Classical Music
by Leslie Chew, Scott Spiegelberg, Dwight DeReiter, Cathy Doheny, Colin Gilbert, Greenwood, Travers Huff, Susanna Loewy, Melissa Maples, Jeff McQuilkin
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DAY 337 | MUSIC THEORY |
Musique Concrète and “Found Objects”
MAKING JOYFUL NOISES
If 12-tone or serial music was an overthrowing of the old form of music theory, a further redefinition of parameters was advocated by Pierre Schaeffer in 1940s France. Schaeffer was in the vanguard of newly emerging electronic music, predating digital recording by approximately four decades. With good financial and business connections, he was able to set up one of the first music lab/recording studios.
Schaeffer’s medium was tape. His method: to record raw sound (a hammer breaking a rock, footsteps on pavement) and subject it to feedback, reverberation, and ...
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