Musique Concrete

Musique Concrete is the experimental technique of musical composition using recorded sounds as raw material. The principle uses the assemblage of various natural sounds to produce an aural montage. A precursor to the use of electronically generated sound, musique concrete was among the earliest uses of electronic means to extend the composer's sound resources. Before the days of sampling and computer manipulation of sounds, musicians used analogue tape recorders to record natural sounds and tape splicing techniques. Music concrete uses natural sounds to create aural compositions. This excerpt is taken from the BBC 1979 documentary "The New Sound of Music".

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Science & Technology

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• music
• musique
• concrete
• tape
• recording
• editing
• loops
• analog
• analogue
• splicing
• natural
• sounds
• BBC
• 1979
• the
• new
• sound
• of
• Michael
• Rodd
• radiophonic
• workshop
• Doctor
• Who
• piano
• strings
• clocks
• gravel
• spring
• manipulation
• speed
• change
• Maida
• Vale
• sampling
• variable
• control
• splice
• open
• reel

[codern]

can anyone tell me what year this was??

[JeffreyPlaide]

1979 in fact, and produced by the BBC. It shows some of the facilities of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop as it was in 1979.

[EQUALinDIFFERENCE]

I would love to use his commentary for the intro to a dubstep mix.

[JeffreyPlaide]

Of course,

Just sample the section you need with some filtering or reverb for effect.

[EQUALinDIFFERENCE]

@JeffreyPlaide

would it be possible to find this in wav? or better than youtube(crap sound) quality....?

[JeffreyPlaide]

Yes, I could extract in WMA, WAV or MP3 from my master file.

Can you send me some details via a personal message?

Many thanks.

[theabcsofstds]

gives me the warm fuzzies inside

jesus christ i love music, i love noise, i love sound, i love the waves reverberating through my ears

[scottc102]

lol, we just happen to have a box of gravel lying around.

[Lalli1987]

So who's the author of the bottle music at the end? It's not John Baker and it's not Delia Derbyshire...

[MorkaGraven]

@EQUALinDIFFERENCE These guys were doing dubstep long before a computer was capable of running FL studios...

[MorkaGraven]

@codern Looks like the 60's...

[jailbreakir]

i liked the bottle part at the end, does anyone know any composers who did anything with that sort of idea?

[coryvreckan]

I lived through those days when we had to use spicing block, razor blades (and bandages) in the studio. We sometimes called it "music by the inch". I am eternally grateful for digital sound editors.

[fabiorosho]

BRING THE NOISE!