Various Artists – Musique Concrète

“Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales (The Group of Musical Research) of the O.R.T.F. (Office of the French Radio-Television) is known in the world principally as the promoter of an original technique of realization as well as reflection: Musique Concrète. As illustrated by the famous phrase of Picasso, “I find first, I search later,” it is known that this attitude puts the identification of new musical parameters before all compositional will… Grouped around Pierre Schaeffer and Francois Bayle, composers and researchers try to give new direction to musical activity, through the conjugated action of Fundamental Research on the languages of music (concrete, electronic, but also instrumental and oriental) and a program of Expression, resulting in original compositions as well as essays for the ballet, theater, cinema, or television.”

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