A Revolution in Music
The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales
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- Paperback
424 pages
- Release Date
26 June 2025
Summary
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 de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520409774 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520409779 |
| Author: | Évelyne Gayou, David Vaughn |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Release Date: | 26 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 33mm |
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“Ms. Gayou rightly takes note of how the approach to sound developed by musique concre`te has gradually infiltrated the thinking of musicians more generally, in particular through a greater awareness of timbre and the components of sound, including spatialization… .The devotion to exegesis and pedagogy have rarely been treated elsewhere as such critical, complementary components of creative work with sound as they have been by Schaeffer and his GRM legacy.” * Computer Music Journal *
“A Revolution in Music takes Music as an ever- evolving form of popular culture. It explores how recording technology has not only enabled composers to create music from the sounds of the world around them but also to produce acousmatic music—novel sounds without a visible connection to their source.”
* The Journal of Popular Culture *About The Author
Évelyne Gayou
Évelyne Gayou is a French musicologist and composer, and a member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales since 1975.
David Vaughn is an interdisciplinary artist and arts translator, whose extensive translation experience includes an enduring collaboration with the GRM and its associates.
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