A Brief Intro to Acousmatic Composition
Posted elsewhere but may be of some interest!
Origins
Philosopical
“Our musical alphabet must be enriched. We also need new instruments very badly. . . . In my own works I have always felt the need of new mediums of expression . . . which can lend themselves to every expression of thought and can keep up with thought.”
Edgard Varèse: New York Morning Telegraph 1916
“Perhaps the time is not far off when a composer will be able to represent through recording, music specifically composed for the gramophone”
Andre Coeuroy: Panorama of Contemporary Music 1928
“The rediscovery of the musicality of sound in noise and in language, and the reunification of music, noise and language in order to obtain a unity of material: that is one of the chief artistic tasks of radio.”
Rudolf Arnheim Radio 1936
“When I proposed the term ‘musique concrète,’ I intended … to point out an opposition with the way musical work usually…
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