Musique concrète
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Musique concrète is a type of music composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material. Sounds are often modified through the application of audio signal processing and tape music techniques, a
Pierre Schaeffer with the phonogène
The chromatic phonogène
The Morphophone
Pierre Henry using induction coils to control sound spatially
Frank Zappa
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Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, songwriter, guitarist, conductor, actor, satirist, filmmaker, and activist. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz
Musique concrète
…experimentation as helping popularise avant-garde art in the era, alongside Jimi Hendrix's use of noise and feedback, Bob Dylan's surreal lyricism and Frank Zappa's "ironic detachment". In The Wire, Edwin Pouncey wrote that the 1960s represented the height of confluence between rock and academic music, noting…
Zappa performing at Ekeberghallen in Oslo, Norway, in 1977
Zappa (back) with the Mothers, 1968
Zappa in 1970
Zappa with the Mothers, 1971