Veteran and co-inventor of Musique Concrète, Pierre Henry invites us for a short walk through his long career, his music, his concerts, his film-collaborations, and his home. An unique personality who fathered some of the most important developments in the music of the 20th century, remaining faithful to his vision and work till today. English subtitles hardcoded.
Pierre Henry, a composer whose experiments with electronically manipulated sound helped create the style known as musique concrète and anticipated the innovations of techno, died on Thursday in Paris. He was 89. His death was announced on social media by Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales, an organization devoted to musique concrète. The sounds of the human body provided the sonic material for one of his earliest compositions, Symphony for a Solitary Man (1950), written in collaboration with Pierre Schaeffer, considered the founder of musique concrète. Mr. Henry later worked with the British progressive rock group Spooky Tooth on the 1969 album Ceremony, which takes the form of a rock ’n’ roll church service, and with the Violent Femmes on his 1997 album Intérieur/Extérieur and on their album Freak Magnet (2000).
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Experimental French composer Pierre Henry, one of the pioneers of musique concrete, is the subject of this documentary that traces his development of a new sound that shocked the music world. During the 1950s, the radical innovator and his colleague Pierre Schaeffer created a unique form of music based on electronically modified environmental noises. Special features include a concert recorded in Paris and the short film "Le Candidat.
Veteran and co-inventor of Musique Concrète, Pierre Henry invites us for a short walk through his long career, his music, his concerts, his film-collaborations, and his home . Veteran and co-inventor of Musique Concrète, Pierre Henry invites us for a short walk through his long career, his music, his concerts, his film-collaborations, and his home. An elusive figure, the inventor of concrete music invites us to his home and describes his art. An elusive figure, full of ideas that have provoked scandals, Pierre Henry, born in 1927 in Paris, nevertheless followed a conventional career path.
Pierre Henry was, along with his mentor Pierre Schaeffer, one of the inventors of musique concrete, that early electronic music created not by synthesizing sounds, but by recording them outside the studio and then painstakingly assembling them into musical works
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Pierre Henry (9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) was a French composer, considered a pioneer in the musique concrète genre of electronic music. In 1970 Henry collaborated with British rock band Spooky Tooth on the album Ceremony (Rubin 2001, 308). Composer Christopher Tyng was heavily inspired by Henry's "Psyché Rock" when writing the theme to the popular animated cartoon show Futurama. The theme is so reminiscent of the Henry's song, it is considered a variation of the original (Cohen 2001). Henry died on Wednesday 5 July 2017 at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Paris, at the age of 89 (Decalf 2017; Dayal 2017; Gervasoni 2017). 1950 Symphonie pour un homme seul (in collaboration with Pierre Schaeffer).