Pierre Schaeffer - Etude Noire

[sheafy121]

this is music definitely, just it sounds like a muderer cowering in the sewers of paris. strangely captivating 

[Michellerooster6]

I'm not entirely sure how I got here and now I'm afraid to leave.

Nice tune though.

[r4sh89]

PIERRE CHAEFFER WAS A EFFING GENIUS!!

[robertfuchsmusician]

@r4sh89 completely agree. i cannot get rid of psychic dependance on his music. i am listening to his music for about ten years, and i have to confess: some of the moments are - like a drug: you need it!

[OneQuest1]

pioneers of sound engineering. much respect.

[Marottp]

Reminds me of Silent Hill 3

[Tsicar]

@Marottp LOL, it does!

[OBSysteme]

I cannot understand why more people do not appreciate this. I hear life here.

I am not sure about people that say this not music... if we call it "not music" how does it make it any less compelly. this is great I like this.

[OBSysteme]

@OBSysteme compelly=compeling

[stalkerP00Q]

@Klomsten its Musique Concrete, and it has nothing to do with the fact that its from 1948, if you don't like it then don't talk shit you poop.

[Klomsten]

what the f*** is this? it's cool that it's from 1948. but hey, that does not make this song/sound or whatever any better... just face it people

[r4sh89]

@Klomsten this is extremem experimental music, if there wasn't this music, there wasn't the music you dance now in the disco , techno music comes from this one!

[Micowoco]

Brilliant stuff. Asmus Tietchens claimed that he set out to make music that did not exist yet. Not quite... (A.T. is great, though)

[fritagogo1]

2 x It's BETTER ! ...

[fritagogo1]

Notre MAESTRO en musique concrète & électronique en FRANCE...

GRM Paris ; ORTF television ; Animation, PUB, etc...

Destructuration de la composition classique pour faire du moderne...

Montrer d'autre horizon de composer...

Pierre Henry; Pierre Boulez, même Jean Michel Jarre et passé par là etc...

C'est notre BASE, et POURQUOI PAS!... Hein ! Il faut bien commencer un jour !

PROUT ! ZUT et FLûte ! BIP ! SPOC ! TIIIWww ! SBONG ! SPLATCH! HAHAHAHA !

Martignat ex élève en électroacoustique !

[fritagogo1]

Notre MAESTRO en musique concrète & électronique en FRANCE...

GRM Paris ; ORTF television ; Animation, PUB, etc...

Destructuration de la composition classique pour faire du moderne...

Montrer d'autre horizon de composer...

Pierre Henry; Pierre Boulez, même Jean Michel Jarre et passé par là etc...

C'est notre BASE, et POURQUOI PAS!... Hein ! Il faut bien commencer un jour !

PROUT ! ZUT et FLûte ! BIP ! SPOC ! TIIIWww ! SBONG ! SPLATCH! HAHAHAHA !

Martignat ex élève en electroacousmatique !

[brumak]

epitome of audio sublimity.

[crocodilewerewolf]

that.. was fucking amazing.

[Rampagge1]

It's kind of like you're listening to an existentialist radio station while working on a construction site (or subway) on a really foggy and/or cold winter's morning (like3-7am).

[Achilles2397]

Choooooooooooooooooon!!!!

[doubleXchris]

J'ai découvert aujourd'hui Pierre Schaeffer et je crois bien que je vais écouter tout ce que je trouve sur lui ;-)

[TWORable]

simply a Masterpiece!!! Lot of ambient of these days and other followers of his work are just devolution of this sound. Or rather say that, students are still not equal to lectors.

[levdimy]

wtf ?

[funkberto]

Chromatic Phonogene make this..

[bnsDFerguson]

I don't know why people think without a beat or melody, something is not music. Music is just the art of sound. Art takes many, many forms.

[darkblitzrz8]

@bnsDFerguson AGREED... its not just paint on canvas 

[MrAlochai]

Musique concrète, only heard of its existence today. This stuff made modern electronic music what it is so stop hating on it and appreciate that it was made in 1948!

[EurelioTortuga]

What the fuck is this shit ._.

[mongoliandude]

Someone put a fat hiphop beat over this, please.

[Zaetix]

@mongoliandude LMFAO!!! whoooo hoooo buddy!!!

[darkblitzrz8]

@mongoliandude please dont ... im so tired of hip hop ... that wanna be genre ....

lol funny thing is that im blacker than saitins toe nails.... PFFT .hip hop

omg experimental all the way ..the genre of the future ..how bout now

[mongoliandude]

@darkblitzrz8

Err...your lost.

Every genre has its greats and some greats for great reasons. To solely judge music on the complexity of harmony alone, or the width of a fat beat is absurd. See why people like it. If its the context your disagree with, then thats fair enough, you wont see any good in it.

And whos to argue that rapping isn't neo-poetry?

Think out some x

[darkblitzrz8]

@mongoliandude trust me i wasnt judging hippity hip hop....

i just liek experimental ..anything now....

living in the hip hop world ..made me dislike it because of how fake the poeple acted like its something they were... i

but wat do i know .. seeing as how i only produce beats./ without lyrics...

[mongoliandude]

@darkblitzrz8 Oh for sure, thats a good reason to hate!

Way I see it, try not to hate the game, hate the player. Hip-hop started getting sucky when pop got a'hold of it, much like any genre before and after. Now that pop has latched more heavily onto electronic Dance, I think Hip-hop should have some room to regroup and grow.

Hip-hop? Watch this space! x

[ficsci]

I feel like this is the most melodic music concrete piece I've listened to in a while

[mediocritas2extremes]

1948: i know, holy crap! I have fantasized about sending a band like sonic youth into the past. and it was already done! i cannot believe this is the first i have heard of this. why is this character not openly herald as the revolutionary bands today are getting credit for? this is a huge crux in the history of music! again, why is he relatively hidden in the annals of sounds? there should be a MTV documentary on this dude... ha....ha MTV... that reminds me, i should visit the bathroom

[Oesktchohova]

@mediocritas2extremes sadly, mostly only the pretentious academics appreciate him...

[r4sh89]

@mediocritas2extremes man, the sheeps of music can not understand thins, they consider this as shit, even if the music of nowadays comes from this piece of art! let live pierre schaeffer in the ones who really appreciates ral music revolution! R.I.P. PIERRE SCHAEFFER LEGEND!

[Swars23BX]

First Noisecore?

[karoloandria]

@Swars23BX

first of everything in electronic music

[ChildofTones]

1948 wow...

[LittleFluffyKraut]

unfassbar^^

[guillz]

the sound of life. weird, noisy, twisty, beautiful.

[centinex88]

Well, it's just noises ^^

What's the point of this?

[Nachtmarchen]

First off, there are harmonies and pitched sounds in this piece, secondly, there are patterns and structures to the "noise", just like there are patterns and structures to the classical music that precedes it. It's not all that different you see.

[centinex88]

I do not think so, you really have to dig deep to find any structure to this mess...

[duesterheit]

centinex88: it's called "Musique concrète" :)

[centinex88]

Yeah, I know that, but I was just wondering *where* is the "music" in this...

[henryburner]

this was pretty interesting music. I like it.

[Catachrise]

Thank you for this piece.

[Lemanic89]

Original Sin & Taxman sampled this for their tune "'97 Style"

[deadkittens666]

This makes the Ummagumma album by PINK FLOYD sound like a walk in the park...

[Pietroprog]

@deadkittens666 Vai a cagare

[HeartsFlame]

This is a beautiful piece.

[62OLOHN]

I love this piece and your film corrsponds exactly to tis title by the choix of pure black !

Best whishes and congratulations from Ö¨l+Ö?*

[Doyubi]

This is the first musique concrète track i find nice.

[Theotim92]

I think "Beaubourg" by Vangelis is an hommage to this kind of pionneers in electronic music.

[Gaiacarra]

kind of aesthetically pleasing.

[r4sh89]

i think that artists like sigur ros and mum have to thank a lot the concrete music..

[cruise332]

couldn't agree more! These guys sure didn't apply as much 'pop' sensibility as those two bands. but edgar varese and piere schaeffer and the like.. music like a lot of other things is, as Newton put it built on the "shoulders of giants".

[TannerLovesPi]

one of my favorite musique concrete songs ever

[logosfails]

aren't we all.

[7Row7enn7]

Agreed. It's my favorite piece by Schaeffer.

[skrbeleven]

Hello Everyone!....I'm new to the genre, Any other Suggested listening from this artist or others??.... much appreciated.

[7Row7enn7]

Pierre Henry, Iannis Xennakis.

[DB5tothehive]

Reminds me a lot more of Burial's strange beat style.

[Lemanic89]

That means that nothing is new, really.

Music Circle of Life is finnished.

[r4sh89]

no, i don't think so:it's like you know: nothing ever borns, nothing ever dies, but everything is changing form and evolving...

[uglyguido]

check out a former black metal band named "Ulver" and an album called "Lykantropen themes" which is a sound track for a short independent film. It presents a more modern ideology of musique concrete.

[HO2]

No that's just industrial.

[uglyguido]

I still have much to learn I guess

[COMB0]

This is like the precursor to drone and noise.

[HO2]

Actually it's the precursor to minimalistic techno as well, as he was the first to use recording as an arrangement tool, something minimalistic techno people picked up on.

[akeefe]

These compositions are WAY more enthusiastic and explorative than Drone or any of the 'experimentation for it's own sake' of today.

[Griceur]

Il faut savoir que Pierre Schaeffer a réalisé la plus grande partie de ses travaux vers les années 1960, la technologie n'était pas la même.

De plus, il est ingénieur, et non musicien.

Son travail consistait surtout à montrer qu'on pouvait créer des pièces "musicales" à partir de sons concrèts et de machines récentes.

[Johni22]

I just have to say that this song is an amazing work of art, but I don't really consider it music. Don't yell at me for this, but I think that this is just a bunch of sounds put together and I could have done this in five minutes, and the only reason you guys think it is cool is because it is efferent.

[backgroundcamel]

could you have put it together in 5 minutes at the time it was made? would you have even known how to?

[7Row7enn7]

To understand msuique concrete, you need to understand Schaefferian thery and Schaeffer's work. I suggest reading "Solfege D'Le Objet Sonore", a treatise on musical philosophy and theoretics by Schaeffer.

[otacon451]

its interesting everyone sees significant emotions in this piece, its possibly my favorite out of all his work.

[cassyit]

the beginnin

[AcidBloodInfusion]

Absolutely amazing.

[derekhanger]

#9 #9 #9 #9 #9 #9 #9 #9 #9

[vokshumana]

Sounds like early Laibach.

[andrecornal]

You only have to see when Laibach's from to figure out they are influenced by Schaeffer. Come on!

[marzenun]

awesome!

[eduardoh7]

excelente... its a shame some people do not apreciate musique concrete

[riodanubio69]

Excelente

[k3riguma]

A musical representation of man's epistemological despair. How sobering and sad.

[7Row7enn7]

Pain is often an outlet for the artist. It leads to greater crativity.

[vcaccuri]

From what I've read, Schaefferian theory has very little to do (nothing, in fact) with emotion references or catharsis. From the perspective of the audience, the attitude towards the listening of Schaeffer's works should be of the acousmatic perception.

Generally speaking: ignore what that sound might "mean" to you, focus on the sound phenomenon itself.

[paulbrockenhagen]

Very Spooky, There is beuty in the chaos.

[FeyriVs]

Chaos is beauty.

[7Row7enn7]

Beautiful in such a subtle and unique way.

[ganjaman986]

work of true genius

[massivepinkdildo]

awesome.

[KANNETTES]

i love too much ^^

ml'

[kovacsgaga]

cool.