pierre schaeffer

  • New English Translation of Pierre Schaeffer’s Influential Treatise on Musical Objects

    New English Translation of Pierre Schaeffer’s Influential Treatise on Musical Objects

    If there’s an influential 20th century research, it is Pierre Schaeffer’s one. Not only for art and music, but for engineering and psychology. Although focused on his idea of the musical object, the Treatise on Musical Objects is an oasis…

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    In Search of a Concrete Music Pierre Schæffer Pierre Schaeffer’s In Search of a Concrete Music (À la recherche d’une musique concrète) has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer’s pioneering work—at once…