Pierre Schaeffer

Film

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Pierre Schaeffer, Traité des objets musicaux, 1966.

Publications

(in French unless noted)

• À la recherche d'une musique concrète, Paris: Seuil, 1952.
  • In Search of a Concrete Music, trans. Christine North and John Dack, University of California Press, 2012, 225 pp. (in English)
• Traité des objets musicaux, Paris: Seuil, 1966; 2nd ed., 1977.
  • Tradato de los objetos musicales, trans. Araceli Cabezon de Diego, Madrid: Alianza, 1988, 337 pp; 2003. Trans. of an abridged version. (in Spanish)
  • Includes the essay "Acousmatics"; trans. Daniel W. Smith, in Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, eds. Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner, Bloomsbury, 2004, pp 76-81. (in English). Trained as a radio engineer and announcer, Schaeffer was fascinated by the fact that radio and recording made possible a new experience of sound--what he called "reduced listening" or "acousmatic listening"--that disclosed a new domain of sounds--objets sonores or sonorous objects, the objects of "acousmatic listening".
• "Sound and the Century: a Socio-Aesthetic Treatise", trans. & intro. Donna Zapf, Vanguard (Feb 1980), pp 6-12. (in English)
• Essai sur la radio et le cinéma, Paris: Allia, 2010, 128 pp. [1]
• Polychrome Portraits, Paris: Institut national de l'audiovisuel, 2009. Contents.

Literature

• Brian Kane, "Vestigial Schaeffer", in Schaeffer, Polychrome Portraits, Paris: Institut national de l'audiovisuel, 2009, pp 13-17. (in English)
• Pierre Schaeffer: A Survey of the Literature, compiled by Carlos Palombini.