In Search of a Concrete Music explained

In Search of a Concrete Music
Title Orig:	À la recherche d'une musique concrète
Author:	Pierre Schaeffer
Website:	pierreschaeffer.com
Country:	France
Language:	French
Subject:	Musique concrète, acoustics, music theory, music technology
Genre:	Treatise, journal
Published:	1952 Éditions du Seuil
Media Type:	Print (paperback)
Pages:	228
Isbn:	978-2-02-002572-0
Oclc:	1705595

In Search of a Concrete Music ^[1] (French: À la recherche d'une musique concrète), written and published in 1952, is a French language publication which forms a major part of the experimental composer and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer's collection of works written to record his own undertakings on the development of musique concrète.

The collection is discussed, among other works of Schaeffer's, in chapter two of Robert Martial's Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions à Orphée.^[2]

In this text, some have suggested, Schaeffer imagined a computerized music studio:

Contents

• DÉDICACE
• 1ER JOURNAL, 1948–1949
• 2E JOURNAL, 1950–1951
• 3 EXPÉRIENCE CONCRÈTE, 1952
• 4 ESQUISSE D'UN SOLFÈGE CONCRET

References

Delalande, François. "D’une technologie à l’autre." Enjeux et initiatives. 6-10.

Notes and References

1. Schaeffer, Pierre. À la recherche d'une musique concrète. Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1952. Searchable text available (to members of subscribing institutions) at the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL).
2. Martial, Robert. Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions à Orphée. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999.