pierre schaeffer - "etude aux chemins de fer"

The first piece of "musique concrete," composed by Pierre Schaeffer in 1948 out of sounds produced by trains.
This is posted as a reference to a series of articles on the problems of composition posed by musique concrete. The article on Peirre Schaeffer can be found here:
http://againstthemodernworld.blogspot...
If you like this music, please purchase the album:
http://www.amazon.com/L-Oeuvre-Musica...

via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9pOq8u6-bA

John Cage

John Cage - 4:33 (2004, 47MB, 9:23 min)

Wonderful video of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under
Lawrence Foster giving a performance of John Cage’s
notorious/ provocative/seminal/epoch-making 4:33."

Variations V (1965, 7.5MB, 2:22 min)

‘John Cage made ‘Variations V’ in 1965 for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
He and David Tudor settled on two systems for the sound to be affected by movement:
directional photocells aimed at the stage lights, so that the dancers triggered sounds as
they cut the light beams with their movements, and a series of antennae.
When a dancer came within four feet of an antenna a sound would result.
Cage, Tudor, and Gordon Mumma operate equipment to modify and determine
the final sounds.’ - from mediaartnet.

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