In Search of a Concrete Music

In Search of a Concrete Music 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). (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.Martial, Robert. Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions à Orphée. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999. ()

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

Notes

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