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Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: / p iː ˈ ɛər ˈ h ɛ n r iː m ə ˈ r iː ˈ ʃ eɪ f ər / ⓘ, French pronunciation:; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC).
Pierre Schaeffer (born Aug. 14, 1910, Nancy, France—died Aug. 19, 1995, Aix-en-Provence) was a French composer, acoustician, and electronics engineer who in 1948, with his staff at Radio-diffusion et Télévision Française, introduced musique concrète.
Feb 23, 2016 · A guide to Pierre Schaeffer, the godfather of sampling. Nearly 50 years before DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing was hailed as the first album made entirely of samples, a French broadcaster envisioned a...
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician.
May 27, 2016 · Sampling, and even to an extent turntablism, can be traced back to the recording experiments of Pierre Schaeffer. An engineer, writer, composer, philosopher, musicologist, educator and acoustician, Schaeffer is one of the most influential figures in modern music, known for pioneering a radical innovation in 20th century music: musique concrète.
Pierre Schaeffer, the Sound Object, and the Acousmatic Reduction IMPROVISED ONTOLOGY In 1948, working in the studios of Radiodiffusion Française, Pierre Schaeffer began to keep a set of journals describing his attempt to create a “symphony of noises.”1 These journals, published in 1952 as A la recherche d’une musique concrète, portray
Known as the father of musique concrète, Pierre Schaeffer was also a writer and pioneer of radio technology, notably founding the research branch of the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), which he directed from 1960 to 1975.
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC).
Pierre Schaeffer with the phonogene in his studio, 1951. Photograph: Serge Lido © INA. Today, journalistic shorthand tends to reduce Schaeffer to ‘the composer who invented musique concrète’. But he practically ceased producing works after 1960 and his collected oeuvre barely stretches to more than three CDs.
A French composer born in 1910 in Nancy who died in 1995. A composer, theoretician, researcher, essayist and novelist, Pierre Schaeffer is one of the fathers of experimental radiophony and of musique concrète, the latter being defined by him as a collage and an assemblage on tape of pre-recorded sounds based on sound material that is both ...
