LUC FERRARI / PIERRE SCHAEFFER / MICHEL PHILIPPOT / HENRI SAUGUET

MUSIQUE CONCRETE 1959 No1 7" 

BAM 241 

Mega rare original 1st pressing on BAM, sound document of the early 50's musique concrete experiments from the pioneers.  

Some info on the release: Impossible to find 1959 vinyl release, one of the first records EVER presenting the phenomenon of musique concrete in order to alter forever the worlds of musics!! This is the original 1st french pressing on BAM from 1959, a nearly 50 year old vinyl!! Rare as hen's teeth!! Features some of the first musique concrete experiments from Luc Ferrari ("Etude Aux Accidents"), Pierre Schaeffer ("Etude aux Allures"), Michel Philippot (Ambiance I) and Henri Sauguet (Premier Aspect Sentimental). Fantastic experimental electronics...you won't believe to your ears with what these guys did back in the 50's!!!!!!!!!!!

Musique Concrète was pioneered by Pierre Schaeffer in the late 1940s and 1950s. Its development was facilitated by the emergence of new music technology in post-war Europe. Access to microphones and magnetic tape recorders (created in 1939), afforded by an association with the French national broadcasting organization, at that time the Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française, gave Schaeffer and his colleagues an opportunity to experiment with recording technology and tape manipulation.

Schaeffer developed an aesthetic practice that was centered upon the use of sound as a primary compositional resource and emphasized the importance of play (in his terms, jeu) in the creation of music. Schaeffer's idea of jeu comes from the French verb jouer, which carries the same double meaning as the English verb play: 'to enjoy oneself by interacting with one's surroundings', as well as 'to operate a musical instrument'. This notion is central to the musique concrète aesthetic.

In 1951 Schaeffer established the Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (Research Group on Concrete Music) at RTF in Paris, the ancestor of the ORTF. Several notable composers, such as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varese and Iannis Xenakis, produced work while engaged with GRMC. In 1958, following the emergence of aesthetic differences, which lead to the rejection of Schaeffer's theories by both Boulez and Stokchausen, the collective became Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM).

At this time the group's core members included Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Luc Ferrari and François-Bernard Mâche. The group continued to refine Schaeffer's ideas and strengthened the concept of musique acousmatique (a term borrowed from Pythagoras which means "perception of sounds of which we ignore the origin"). In 1966 Shaeffer published the book Traité des Objets Musicaux (Treatise on musical objects) which represented the culmination of some 20 years of research in the field of musique concrète. In conjunction with this publication, a set of sound recordings was produced, entitled Le Solfège de l'Objet Sonore (Music Theory of the Acoustic Object), to provide examples of concepts dealt with in the treatise. In 1975, GRM was integrated into France's Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA - Audiovisual National Institute).

Further references could be Guy Reibel, Pierre Schaeffer, Francois Bayle, Ivo Malec, Michel Redolfi and Alain Savouret, Francois-Bernard Mache, Jean Claude-Risset and Jean Schwarz, Richard Maxfield, Tod Dockstader, Trevor Wishart and Luigi Nono, Pietro Grossi, Desmond Leslie Pendercki, John Cage and Bernard Parmegiani.

Condition: The vinyl looks to be in very good++ condition, very clean and shiny with some very light marks and pen writing on label, keep in mind that it's a +50 year old record. On the other hand, the cover lies in very good condition with storage wear and small tear on bottom right corner. 

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