Summary of Recipe for Musique Concrète

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This YouTube video provides a recipe for creating musique concrète. It introduces Pierre Schaeffer, the man responsible for developing this form of music, and demonstrates how to use two sounds - the door and the sigh - to create a beautiful piece of music. The author suggests that thinking about the ingredients and how to transform them into a playable piece is important, and that using repetition, variation, and contrast is the basic principles of composition.

• 00:00:00 In this recipe for making musique concrète, the author introduces Pierre Schaeffer, the man responsible for the development of this unique form of music. The composer used two sounds - the door and the sigh - to create a beautiful piece of music that lasts around half an hour. The author suggests that thinking about the ingredients and how to transform them into a playable piece is important, and that using repetition, variation, and contrast is the basic principles of composition. In the final section, the author reintroduces some of the sounds from the beginning of the piece.
• 00:05:00 This video demonstrates how to create a piece of musique concrète using classic techniques of repetition, looping, and changing sounds' pitch. It is not difficult to do, and can be a great way to enjoy sound in new ways.