Call Out for 4'33" Musique Concrète pieces

[windspace]

Originally posted by Shaun Roberts:

Deadline March 15 2015

1. Duration: 4'33" exactly
2. Be Musique Concrète
3. The track to be exclusive and previously unreleased
4. open to everyone, any enquires [email protected]
5. Make a piece of artwork/image or logo, 1000 x 1000 pixels in size
6. Send as a wav 44.100 kHz 16 Bit to [email protected] via wetransfer
7. Optional, send supporting text, explaining the process of making of the track,
and/or about your project, links, biography, etc
8. Finished compilation will go up on bandcamp
and will be a name your price download
http://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com

please pass this information on

http://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/

[Ahornberg]

I found an interesting article about Musique Concrète:

Pierre Schaeffer and the theory of sound objects

http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm4143/2006_ed_1%28pls%20do%20not%20remove%29/noteshandout/m8_schaeffer.pdf

[DarkenedPines]

Can I get a briefer explanation as to what exactly musique concrete is? This sounds interesting.

[windspace]

Here's a brief description from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concrète

Musique concrète (French pronunciation: [myzik kɔ̃.kʁɛt], meaning "concrete music") is a genre of electroacoustic music that is made in part from acousmatic sound. It can feature soundsderived from recordings of musical instruments, voice, and the natural environment as well as those created using synthesizers and computer-based digital signal processing. Also, compositions in this idiom are not restricted to the normal musical rules of melody, harmony, rhythm, metre, and so on. Originally contrasted with "pure" elektronische Musik (based solely on the production and manipulation of electronically produced sounds rather than recorded sounds), the theoretical basis of musique concrète as a compositional practice was developed by Pierre Schaeffer, beginning in the early 1940s.

[Synthetic Aurality]

This sounds interesting. I work in a huge mechanical fence-making plant (I'm the only softwre guy for the company in Tulsa) and I can get records of huge, heavy steel cutting machinery. If I can get the raw materials recorded, I'll see what I can do about putting something together - no promises, though.

[Ahornberg]

for me it's music poured or set in concrete ...