Pierre Schaeffer+Henry: Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul ORIG electronic concrete

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Pierre Schaeffer & Pierre Henry: Symphonie pour un homme seul (1950 for electronic tape) / Pierre Henry: Concerto Des Ambiguïtés (1950 for electronic tape) label & cat. no.:Philips 6510 012 pressed in:France date:1972 format:LP Vinyl: ex (couple faint scuffs, looks barely used)
Cover: vg+ (slight corner wear, small embossed promo stamp on front, top and bottom seams have partial repair with clear tape which is barely noticeable)

description:
Original pressing of the complete versions of these 2 pioneering and essential classics of musique concrete, realized by cutting up and processing field recordings using turntables and mixers, among the earliest output of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales. Schaeffer describes the Symphonie as "an opera for blind people, a performance without argument, a poem made of noises." This was the 1st issue of the complete Concerto Des Ambiguïtés. Both works were later adapted into abstract ballets by Maurice Béjart, depicted in performance on the cover.

artist info from album notes etc.:
Schaeffer was a French resistance radio engineer during World War II and a researcher of television technology in addition to being the inventor of musique concrete; he founded the world's first tape music studio, was among the earliest composers to use the turntable as an instrument, invented the Phonogene (a proto-sampling keyboard), worked at the INA-GRM with Pierre Henry, Jon Appleton, Francois Bayle, Michel Philippot, Philippe Arthuys, Luc Ferrari, Jean-Michel Jarre, Michel Chion, Michel Redolfi, Jean-Claude Risset, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varese, Olivier Messiaen, Francois Bernard Mache, Ivo Malec, Bernard Parmegiani, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Ragnar Grippe, Francis Dhomont, Guy Reibel, Jacques Lejeune, Jean Schwarz, and Iannis Xenakis, and his groundbreaking work influenced contemporaries like Tony Schwartz, Jim Fasset, John Cage, Tod Dockstader, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Tom Dissevelt, Henk Badings, and Jean-Jacques Perrey, and later electronic artists like Nurse With Wound, Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Tetreault, Erik M, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, and Merzbow. • Henry studied under Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen, and together with Pierre Schaeffer founded the INA-GRM; his groundbreaking work would influence contemporaries like John Cage, Jean-Michelle Jarre, Tod Dockstader, Jon Appleton, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Tom Dissevelt, and Jean-Jacques Perrey, and he has worked with Spooky Tooth, Coldcut, DJ Vadim, William Orbit, Fatboy Slim and Funki Porcini.

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