Schaeffer & Henry's Symphonie pour un homme seul

Published: April 28, 2012, 11:05 p.m.

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Hollywood sound designer and film editor Walter Murch nominates Symphonie pour un homme seul by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, music he first heard on the radio as a schoolboy and which influenced his subsequent work in the field of film sound. Author and journalist Rob Young puts the work in the context of post-war Paris and Schaeffer\\u2019s early experiments at French Radio which led to the birth of musique concrete.

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