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Relevant passages:
Golo Föllmer «Audio Art»
Heike Helfert «Technological Constructions of Space-Time
Aspects of Perception» Dieter Daniels «Sound & Vision in Avantgarde & Mainstream » Golo Föllmer Julia Gerlach «Audiovisions. Music as an Intermedia Art Form.»
Works by Pierre Schaeffer:
Check as well:
Gordon Pask «The Colloquy of Mobiles» Masaki Fujihata «Impressing Velocity» Ulrike Rosenbach «School of Creative Feminism» Nam June Paik «One for Violin Solo» Dennis Oppenheim «Two Stage Transfer Drawing (Advancing to a Future State)»
Pierre Schaeffer
* 1910 in Nancy (F) – died 1995 in Les Milles bei Aix-en-Provence (F); studied mathematics and philosophy, and at the conservatoire in Nancy. Ecole Polytechnique 1929–1931, Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité et des Télécommunications 1931–1933. Since 1935 news and radio engineer; 1942 founding of the «Studio d’Essai de la Radio» in Beaune, and Head of the Paris radio station during the liberation of the city; since 1948 development and invention of «musique concrète,» the first technically produced music. Until 1958 collaboration with Pierre Henry; 1959/60 founding of the Service de Recherche and the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of O.R.T.F. in order to promote electro-acoustic compositions in theory and practice, theory of radio and the development of audiovisual basic research; 1975 he returns to his own compositions and realizes «Le Trièdre fertile», his first purely electronic composition (in collaboration with Bernard Durr).
