biography
pronunciation:
[shayfair]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1910–95)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Nancy, NE France. Concrete music was created from his compositions for magnetic tape in 1948. A Polytechnicien, he worked at la Radio Diffusion Française. Influenced by Gurdjieff, he founded Jeune France in 1941 and took part in the Studio d'Essai of Jacques Copeau. He created with Pierre Henry Symphonie pour un homme seul (performed 18 Mar 1950), the first concert of concrete music. He worked to make the GRMC official, and reorganized it in 1958 into the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), of which Bayle (1966) and then D Terruggi (1977) became directors. He was associate professor at the Conservatoire for Electronic Compositions, where an electro-acoustic class was founded in 1968. His works include Etudes and an opera Orphée, both using tape recordings. His Traite des Objets Musicaux was published in 1966. |
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