Friday, September 7, 2007

Musique concrete

Xenakis and Schaffer
Xenakis' language -- which musical "mapping"? How did Xenakis revolutionize music? How did he change our perception of music?
What does "musique concrete" mean? Which other possibilities of musical composition did Xenakis offer? Musical architecture

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Photography, whether the fact be denied or admitted, has completely upset music..for all that, traditional music is not denied; any more than theater is supplanted by the cinema. Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?"

Inventor of Musique Concrete, Pierre Schaeffer Born in Nancy, France. 1910-1995