Pierre Henry - The Art of Sounds

Monday 7th September / 6.30pm / QFT / £5.50

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In the fifties Pierre Henry provoked scandal by inventing Musique Concrète with Pierre Schaeffer. Together the two revolutionised the concept of music by defying expectations of melody and rhythm. Music was no longer written with notes on a score for instrumentalists but was based on sounds and noises from our environment, collected, edited and transformed by machines.

Today, avant garde musicians, electronic artists and DJs alike claim to be followers of his fabulous work in fashioning sound. In Pierre Henry: The Art Of Sounds, we follow Henry as he brandishes his boom mics through the Coulée Verte, Paris, in search of the “perfect” sound. As the journey unfolds we are brought back forty years as people are leaving the “Concert Couché” (“lying down concert”), with initial reactions from the audience.

Preceded by ‘Le Candidat’ by Gérald Belkin, scored by Pierre Henry.

MP3s

Pierre Henry - Psyché Rock

Pierre Henry - Atelier