Musique Concrete is a genre of music that
was first developed in the 1940’s by
experimental composers. This new kind of music wasn’t restricted to
the
normal ‘rules’ of music making, it was much more open to trial and error.
Each work was made up of layers of different sounds that came from a variety of
places
including the more traditional areas such as instruments and voices as
well as more obscure
areas such as nature, household objects and electronically
produced sound.
The developing technology
of the time also opened up possibilities for artists as it meant they
were now
able to manipulate sound – play it faster, slower backwards until they reached
the desired sound. Pierre Schaeffer was one of the first composers to begin
developing
the idea of musique concrete; he is believed to be the founder of
the genre.
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