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Artist
Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry
ReleaseProduct
Symphone Pour Un Homme Seul - Concerto Des Ambiguites
Label
Modern Silence
Catalogue Number
OI005
Release Date
April 1, 2016

Modernist reissue label Modern Silence revive one of the most influential symphonies of the 20th century with a vinyl repress: Symphonie Pour Un Home Seul is the brainchild of musique concrète inventor Pierre Schaeffer and his scholar Pierre Henry with whom he would go on to co-found the Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète. First recorded as a performance at the Auditorium of the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris in 1950, the 12-part piece redefines the very connotations of the musical form: while traditional symphonies are usually scored for larger orchestral ensembles, Symphonie Pour Un Home Seul opposes those principles by deploying turntables and mixers to create a collage of electroacoustic noises. Schaeffer intended the vocal fragments, prepared piano sounds and whistles to symbolise the sounds of a “lone man” – crying, walking, fist thumping, laughing, groaning – extending the body’s functions to those of a musical instrument .

  1. 1 Prosopopee I (Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul) 2:00
  2. 2 Partita 0:36
  3. 3 Valse 0:28
  4. 4 Erotica 0:40
  5. 5 Scherzo 1:17
  6. 6 Collectif
  7. 7 Prosopopee II
  8. 8 Eroica
  9. 9 Apostrophe
  10. 10 Intermezzo
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