Pierre Henry
Pierre Henry was a French composer, born in Paris on 9 December 1927. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Olivier Messiaen, Nadia Boulanger and the percussionist Félix Passerone. From 1949 he worked with Pierre Schaeffer at the radio studio of the RTF, where the two made Symphonie pour un homme seul (1950) and the opera Orphée 53, staged at Donaueschingen. He left the RTF in 1958 and set up his own studio. His long partnership with the choreographer Maurice Béjart produced Messe pour le temps présent (1967), written with Michel Colombier, whose "Psyché Rock" became a hit.
Ceremony
LP Reissue of this controversial conept album from 1969. "There are some albums out there that completely defy genre categorization. But every once in a blue moon, an album comes along that manages to completely defy all rational explanation. Thi…
Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul / Concerto Des Ambiguites
Electronic / avant-garde music pioneer and founder of the French musique concrète movement, Pierre Schaeffer, a radio engineer, believed that any sound could be music, and was one of the first to experiment with tape looping, splicing and sampling. H…
Le Microphone Bien Tempere'
Electronic music pioneer, Pierre Henry, was a classically trained French pianist and percussionist, but gained notoriety as one of the driving forces behind the French avante-garde movement "musique concrète", which attempted make music by using "…
Musique Sans Titre / Spatiodynamisme
Pierre Henry was a student and collaborator of Musique Concréte pioneer Pierre Schaeffer. The first side of the LP, composed in 1951 at the Studio d'Essai of the RTF, is notably one of his earliest attempts at the discipline. 'Spatiodynamisme' how…
Haut-Voltage / Coexistence
Accompanying the Doxy's coverage of early Henry recordings, 'Haut Voltage' is his 22 minute composition made in 1956, featuring his own vocals and designed to soundtrack a stage production by French choreographer Maurice Béjart. The second composi…
Cortical Art III
Boston's best cdr-label is run by a fine gentleman named K., and it's dedicated to reissuing obscure 20th century avant garde electronic music in shrunk down replica sleeves, complete with inserts, etc. Follow up to the brainwave recordings made our …