In Search of a Concrete Music: Volume 15

by Pierre Schaeffer

Book Overview

Pierre Schaeffer's In Search of a Concrete Music ( la recherche d'une musique concr te) has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer's pioneering work--at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d' tre of "concrete music"--is available for the first time in English translation. Schaeffer's theories have had a profound influence on composers working...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520265742
• ISBN13: 9780520265745
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"