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Paris Electronic Week - 22/09/2017

Conference

Friday 22 September (18:45-20 00) / Auditorium



The pioneers of electronic music (tribute to Pierre Henry)

This year, the father of electroacoustic music died. Pierre Henry was a pioneer, a major figure in the history of concrete music. He inspired a whole generation of artists in electronic music.

The Paris Electronic Week pays tribute to him on Friday, September 22 at the Gaîté Lyrique from 18:45 with Jean-Michel Jarre.

François Bonnet, artistic director of the GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) and Alexandre Grauer, who is close to Pierre Henry, will tell the story and the legacy of this pioneer.

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http://www.pariselectronicweek.fr/les-p ... rre-henry/
http://www.pariselectronicweek.fr/jean-michel-jarre/

The Paris Electronic Week 2017 pay tribute to Pierre Henry on Friday, September 22nd at the Gaîté Lyrique from 18:45 with Jean-Michel Jarre, the INA GRM and Les Qwartz

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Jean-Michel Jarre @ Paris Electronic Week - 22/09/2017



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Article - Elise (news) - Le meilleur des infos Tech & Musique - 27/09/2017




Paris Electronic Week, Jean-Michel Jarre pays tribute to Pierre Henry

Pierre Henry, a timeless composer with immense influence

The question of "Pierre Henry, first DJ" was discussed this Friday night at the Gaîté Lyrique during the tribute paid to the composer by Jean-Michel Jarre, who explained the difference between the approach of composers of electronic music and that of Pierre Henry. He started from rough sounds and attached himself to the acoustic quality of these sounds that he recorded and later treated to give them the musical qualities he wished they had. Conversely, DJs and composers of electronic music leave simple frequencies, sounds rather poor and enrich them by treatments and effects, the starting material is not at all the same. Pierre Henry is certainly a pioneer, but his works can hardly be dated, he belongs to the past, the present and the future. In the production of electronic music, the effects used date the sound. Pierre Henry has used very little, it is by publishing that it infused the rhythm with the "concrete" raw sounds that formed the basis of his plays. He used the technology of his time to shape the "concrete" sound (which exists), not the one invented by man and emitted by musical instruments. "Composing is the art of decision" reminds us Jean-Michel Jarre at this conference tribute. Henry had a happy hand because even if "traditional" musical instruments are not used, composers of concrete and electroacoustic music are very attached to the musical gesture.

Source: http://elise.news/2017/09/paris-electro ... rre-henry/

23/11/2017

Video by Paris Electronic Week – short clip with Jean-Michel Jarre:

A big thank you to actors and artists without whom nothing would have been possible.