Pierre Schaeffer and the Ethics of Experimental Music Research
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 31 March 2026
- ISBN 9781399539234
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 black and white illustrations 700
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Short description:
The first monograph in English to offer a comprehensive account of Pierre Schaeffer’s music philosophy including his varied career as a writer, broadcaster, philosopher and musician.
MoreLong description:
What should musicians and their audiences do with evolving broadcast and recording technologies? This is the question that occupied French writer and engineer Pierre Schaeffer from his first radio job in 1936 until his retirement as Director of the Research Service of the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) in 1974, and then for another 20 years as founding figurehead of the pioneering music research institution he had founded in the meantime, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). This book illuminates the varied literary, philosophical, political and religious investments that informed Schaeffer’s quest for an ethical system of experimental music research as he traversed this turbulent period in French cultural and intellectual history. Readers interested in the philosophy behind Schaeffer’s well-known musical inventions will find a surprising and original account of an adventurous thinker at the intersection of war, technoscience, decolonisation, phenomenology, New Age spirituality and countercultural rebellion.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: For the Listener of the Future
1. Dialogue with Monsters, 1936-1956
2. Deconditioning, 1953-1966
3. Russian Dolls: Power and Communication, 1966-1971
4. Transductions, 1968-1980
Conclusion: The Closed Loop
Bibliography
Index
