Musique Concrete

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  • Опубліковано 24 бер 2009
  • Musique Concrete is the experimental technique of musical composition using recorded sounds as raw material. The principle uses the assemblage of various natural sounds to produce an aural montage. A precursor to the use of electronically generated sound, musique concrete was among the earliest uses of electronic means to extend the composer's sound resources. Before the days of sampling and computer manipulation of sounds, musicians used analogue tape recorders to record natural sounds and tape splicing techniques. Music concrete uses natural sounds to create aural compositions. This excerpt is taken from the BBC 1979 documentary "The New Sound of Music".
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  • @SacredNutrino
    @SacredNutrino 10 років тому +258

    People were high as fuck in the 60s

    • @evandeneault186
      @evandeneault186 9 років тому

      Musique Concrete = Acid Rock. Both types of music you'd be tripping out listening to.

    • @tristanmiller5215
      @tristanmiller5215 9 років тому +2

      look up zoolook by jean micheal jarre, basically an acid trip in an album

    • @BananaPhoPhilly
      @BananaPhoPhilly 9 років тому +5

      This is from 1979

    • @H4RM0N1C5
      @H4RM0N1C5 8 років тому +5

      +BananaPhoPhilly Musique Conrete started in 1928.

    • @BananaPhoPhilly
      @BananaPhoPhilly 8 років тому

      Steve Goyne The video is from 1979

  • @mrfrosty3
    @mrfrosty3 10 років тому +78

    All tv presenters should talk like this chap. BBC English.

  • @zachary7573
    @zachary7573 8 років тому +398

    Oh my god I am so sampling this video.

  • @infantiltinferno
    @infantiltinferno 14 років тому +113

    The ecstasy of Concrete Music explained by an enthusiastic man from the BBC, anno 1979. Oh, and there's a visual representation of the sounds being speed up, slowed down or played in reverse. Perfection.

    • @chappingcleeks76
      @chappingcleeks76 4 місяці тому

      Couldn't have put it better....like he even said wouldn't be the first. Mind blown 😅

  • @coryvreckan
    @coryvreckan 13 років тому +32

    I lived through those days when we had to use spicing block, razor blades (and bandages) in the studio. We sometimes called it "music by the inch". I am eternally grateful for digital sound editors.

    • @cygil1
      @cygil1 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah however innovative at he time it must have been likes building a car out of coconuts.

  • @bennyfromthe72
    @bennyfromthe72 9 років тому +73

    Musique Concrète was created in France as early as in the 40s, sort of making Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry the pioneers of electronic music !

    • @michaelwilliams8781
      @michaelwilliams8781 3 роки тому +1

      Exactement! 👍

    • @australianaliens5942
      @australianaliens5942 2 роки тому +3

      Likewise artists such as Pauline Oliveros across the Atlantic were working with tape in similar ways , anticipating more recent forms of electronic music

    • @MrBarcode
      @MrBarcode 4 місяці тому

      To me they were more pioneers of super proto industrial music. The found sounds, objects, sound manipulation. All stuff TG did years later and founded a label for this style of music

  • @Rascaduanok
    @Rascaduanok 10 років тому +23

    Same story: whenever you get a new technology, you get people willing to take things to a wholly different and experimental level. Brilliant!

  • @DillingerR
    @DillingerR 5 років тому +10

    that bottle beat at the end is fire

  • @MrSombulance
    @MrSombulance 8 років тому +134

    The perverse pleasure on his face at 0:50 "Quite different sounds"

    • @Nightman01
      @Nightman01 8 років тому +1

      im glad i wasn't the only one to notice xD

    • @naughtiusmaximus789
      @naughtiusmaximus789 4 роки тому +4

      😏🎶🎵😖💦

    • @SlyHikari03
      @SlyHikari03 3 роки тому +3

      He looks very intrigued.

    • @CosmiaNebula
      @CosmiaNebula 3 роки тому +4

      You can hear his barely suppressed enjoyment

  • @horrordwarf
    @horrordwarf 14 років тому +13

    The presenter is Michael Rodd, who used to present Tomorrow's World and Screen test on the BBC back in the 1970's. Great clip.

  • @TheBishMighty
    @TheBishMighty 12 років тому +15

    These simple sounds may not seem like much, but one single note added to a song for atmospheric effect can create something that is a work of genius.

  • @concretesoundart1483
    @concretesoundart1483 7 років тому +67

    I became interested in Musique Concrete after I took an experimental music class. I like how they provided examples of Musique Concrete in this video.

    • @lars38010
      @lars38010 7 років тому +19

      It`s funny when most people today still think that Music and Sound are different. Music is just a combination of vibrating sounds. And Musique Concrete shows that :)

    • @concretesoundart1483
      @concretesoundart1483 7 років тому +2

      I agree. Having produced some Musique Concrete tracks in the past, I'd say that it is both frustrating and fun how one must search for sounds that reflect the style that one desires from unconventional sources. It ends up feeling like a giant musical puzzle.

    • @lars38010
      @lars38010 6 років тому

      I almost forgot to say. That music does also have expression. So vibrating sounds+expression is music.

    • @benpowell5682
      @benpowell5682 3 роки тому

      Do you make musique concrete? :)

    • @JustifyTheseHeathens
      @JustifyTheseHeathens 2 роки тому

      @@lars38010 good point. I'm crunching a donut right now and it sounds soooo good

  • @Zaiatheism
    @Zaiatheism 4 роки тому +3

    It's been seven years since I first saw this video and last had any contact with the material world

  • @PSPmaster321
    @PSPmaster321 9 років тому +39

    Last tune was top-notch.

  • @theabcsofstds
    @theabcsofstds 12 років тому +17

    gives me the warm fuzzies inside
    jesus christ i love music, i love noise, i love sound, i love the waves reverberating through my ears

  • @user-ef3om4jb6s
    @user-ef3om4jb6s 8 років тому +357

    I'm socially disattached from social dogma

    • @hermanni563
      @hermanni563 8 років тому +5

      +Sasha Brannon omg other 9gagger

    • @maxw.2833
      @maxw.2833 8 років тому +2

      Well, hello there.

    • @generaltoast9910
      @generaltoast9910 8 років тому +1

      nope, level infinite.

    • @DeathTimer
      @DeathTimer 8 років тому +1

      I felt I was alone.
      Yet I've found some people who've disconnected themselves from the material world.
      All rejoice in the hands of the golden empress.

    • @generaltoast9910
      @generaltoast9910 8 років тому +2

      DeathTimer Fuck the golden empress, GLORY TO THE GOD EMPEROR!

  • @TheTectonical
    @TheTectonical 9 років тому +48

    Tune at 4:30 sounds a little like the opening of the Futurama theme tune !

  • @boring5718
    @boring5718 8 років тому +229

    Welcome to level infinity

    • @boring5718
      @boring5718 8 років тому +1

      Baron Black Music Welcome

    • @m4rcus411
      @m4rcus411 8 років тому +2

      hello my friend (:

    • @luucastadeu
      @luucastadeu 8 років тому +4

      because lvl 1-6 are for losers

    • @edgarulisescespedeschew4279
      @edgarulisescespedeschew4279 8 років тому +4

      so glad I wasn't the only one who searched all level infinity music, sound like what Ross in FRIENDS used to "play"

    • @maestrozero117
      @maestrozero117 3 роки тому

      Imagine being in a tuning ever

  • @Blockistium
    @Blockistium 10 років тому +79

    NO LONGER IN NEED OF ANY CONTACT WITH THE MATERIAL WORLD

    • @kjl3080
      @kjl3080 3 місяці тому

      is this a quote

  • @lesnyk255
    @lesnyk255 5 років тому +3

    Oh, God - back in the days when "cut & paste" meant just that - marking the tape with a grease pencil, cutting with nonmagnetic ceramic shears, taping it back together, all while hoping for the best. There was no "UnDo" - at best, a "ReDo", if you were working with a 2nd generation copy...
    I first encountered musique concrete back in the early 1970s - freshly degreed, with disposable income for the first time in my life, I'd spend Saturday mornings perusing the cutout bins at the "record store" (q.v.) for "albums" (q.v.) to play on my "turntable" (q.v.). I chanced upon a Nonesuch recording of musique concrete by Iannis Xenakis - and it blew me away, destroying all of my preconceived notions of what music had to be.

  • @princealigorna7468
    @princealigorna7468 9 років тому +221

    The thing about musique concrete is this stuff is pretty much the prototype for sampling. Sure, Cage wrote pieces involving turntables and radios that were also kinda proto-sampling, but this stuff really is sampling before that was even considered a thing. Except what was being sampled was field recordings, and everything was done by hand. You couldn't run a sampler through a synth and do all the editing from the sampler like you can now. You have to physically manipulate this stuff yourself.

    • @SuperCartiel
      @SuperCartiel 9 років тому +6

      Prince Aligorna Like Roger Waters did on 'Meddle' and 'Dark Side of the Moon'?

    • @princealigorna7468
      @princealigorna7468 9 років тому +8

      *****
      Exactly! Or I think the Beatles had to do with "Revolution #9"

    • @SuperCartiel
      @SuperCartiel 9 років тому +7

      Prince Aligorna As much as I know, Waters and Syd Barrett started the trend in England. But Frank Zappa used musique concrete on his earlier albums.

    • @profd65
      @profd65 3 роки тому +1

      How the f-ck is it the prototype of sampling? With sampling, you're simply stealing somebody else's music, often without giving any credit to the artist. The video describes recording your own sounds and then manipulating the recording tape. It is possible to use samples of another artist's work creatively and legitimately, but often sampling is simply theft carried out by the creatively impaired.

    • @jan_Travis
      @jan_Travis 3 роки тому +1

      @@profd65 sampling has always been a thing a thing. Back in the 1500s, churches would often steal a melody of a popular song and use it as a base line. They did this so much, they even gave it a name.

  • @BaddaBigBoom
    @BaddaBigBoom 6 років тому +10

    Thanks a million for uploading this, I now have to locate the entire documentary :-)

    • @VanielDeeform
      @VanielDeeform 6 років тому +2

      BaddaBigBoom The New Sound Of Music 1979 Part 1

  •  14 років тому +31

    Very cool... one of the best demonstrations of tape music, music concrete I've seen. Back in Seattle, we had Soundwork Studio, late 70's and early 80's... Several of us spent a million hours or so creating tape pieces. Fun video, thanks.

    • @csnerd21
      @csnerd21 10 місяців тому

      do you still have the tape pieces?!

    •  10 місяців тому

      @@csnerd21 I do. I have a few of them here on UA-cam on my channel. And... several boxes of reel to reel tapes.

    • @csnerd21
      @csnerd21 10 місяців тому +1

      @ That's so cool! I will check out your channel and give them a listen. I'm new to musique concrete, but I find it so fascinated... I'm diving into any which way I can. It was just yesterday that I came across a TEAC reel-to-reel, and I said to the owner that I'd be back for it.
      I'd love to hear more about _'million_ _hours_ _creating_ _tape_ _pieces'_ and tips/advice you'd have for a newbie!

  • @JeffreyPlaide
    @JeffreyPlaide  14 років тому +18

    Many thanks for this.
    I found this programme very inspirational for the creative sound artist, and also quite enjoyable to watch Michael Rodd explain tape techniques.
    Much appreciation!

  • @xXxequisxXx
    @xXxequisxXx 6 місяців тому

    Good lord, the physical manipulation of media on tape must've taken the patience of a saint and skill of a surgeon.

  • @yasirozer4782
    @yasirozer4782 4 роки тому +3

    its weird to think that we living these guys' future

  • @icewallowcome2964
    @icewallowcome2964 7 років тому +3

    with the alarm clock and the the beat counter thing all getting faster and the weird noise that the tape recorder makes looks like it should be in a horror movie

  • @BaddaBigBoom
    @BaddaBigBoom 6 років тому +2

    That cash register composition is SO sardonic it makes my eyes cross with delight!

  • @Audiodump
    @Audiodump 9 років тому +44

    A box of gravel.

  • @arkantika3927
    @arkantika3927 2 роки тому +2

    Was just watching Gene Hackman in "The Conversation " David Shire used the Musique Concrete technique for some of the score in the movie , very hip! 😎

  • @MichaelMichuki
    @MichaelMichuki 9 років тому +10

    Ideas inspire ideas - music production has gone to so many other new levels, totally fascinating :)

  • @Klatski
    @Klatski 8 років тому +33

    Sometimes it's so fascinating that it makes me want to make music in some... experimental or gimmick-y way. I thought it was only for creepy kind of music, but I guess not. I'll see.

    • @Klatski
      @Klatski 8 років тому

      +Wolfen :^)

  • @JohnnyBeane
    @JohnnyBeane 4 роки тому +4

    Awesome stuff!!! So many cool sounds to play with!

  • @Dtuba15
    @Dtuba15 11 років тому +2

    im a music tech and a Dr.Who fan ....... im so happy right now

  • @tomasenrique
    @tomasenrique Рік тому

    Such an amazing video! I am so glad to be born in the UA-cam era!

  •  9 років тому +1

    Thanks for uploading this, really helps with my work.

  • @gorgorgorillaneck
    @gorgorgorillaneck 11 років тому +8

    4:28 The primordial version of the Futurama Theme song.

  • @ThighcherryTube
    @ThighcherryTube 7 місяців тому

    1979, wow. Genius. I did a lot of experimenting with tapes and cassettes myself, until I bought my Casio SK-5 sampling keyboard. Spent a lot of time making music like this. A shame all my cassettes disappeared in a fire.

  • @inabsolutedarkness13
    @inabsolutedarkness13 3 роки тому

    This video is helping me to understand Deleuze and Guattari. Thank you.

  • @chappingcleeks76
    @chappingcleeks76 4 місяці тому

    Absolutely epic.....and for the time and technology. This is exactly why music is an art. That and Rimba tubes.

  • @travisniles6800
    @travisniles6800 3 роки тому +1

    I love this guys confidence

  • @neelshiv
    @neelshiv 15 років тому

    This is a great educational video for modern music lovers.

  • @JeffreyPlaide
    @JeffreyPlaide  13 років тому +2

    1979 in fact, and produced by the BBC. It shows some of the facilities of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop as it was in 1979.

  • @aaronsimpson4340
    @aaronsimpson4340 4 роки тому +6

    4:06 the opening to Time by Pink Floyd

  • @ethereal-alice
    @ethereal-alice 10 років тому +23

    So so so so so trippy. i love it

  • @lurholm
    @lurholm 13 років тому +1

    Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!

  • @ImFromAMS
    @ImFromAMS 12 років тому +5

    I always wondered how they edited music before there were computers. i didn't know they literally cut the tape~

  • @2degucitas
    @2degucitas 8 років тому +2

    Inspired so many things in pop culture. The Beatles, electronic music bands...list goes on.

  • @PettyBlue1
    @PettyBlue1 11 років тому +1

    Okay, I'm in love with this clip.

  • @JeffreyPlaide
    @JeffreyPlaide  14 років тому +6

    Many thanks Yuran,
    There are two BBC Documentaries actually - "The New Sound of Music" 1979 - used here, and "The Alchemists of Sound" 2003 - that features the mysterious man in the background. I haven't been able to source who he is though.
    Thanks!

  • @xoFiroza
    @xoFiroza 11 років тому

    This is a lovely video and I really like the host too!

  • @AlessioPremoliOfficial
    @AlessioPremoliOfficial 9 років тому +18

    Well, thist time I wasn't actually looking for some Doctor Who stuff, but it popped up anyhow! :D

  • @fancyfeces
    @fancyfeces 11 років тому

    damn that's a great little demonstration.

  • @EmilyMaddenComposer
    @EmilyMaddenComposer 13 років тому +1

    Really good video.

  • @cosmicroundingerror
    @cosmicroundingerror 9 років тому +29

    4:29 sounds like the ed edd n' eddy theme

    • @lumencosmo
      @lumencosmo 6 років тому +4

      ed edd n' eddy in acid ahahhaha XD

  • @dreamcyberium
    @dreamcyberium 4 роки тому +3

    So this is what tape splicing is. I heard all about this about had no idea what it actually was until now. Wow so cool! You can literally do this exact technique via Audacity- without the fuss of physical tapes. Would be fun to do it authentically at some point, though.

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 Рік тому +2

      You should look into how Delia Derbyshire made the first Doctor Who theme. Its crazy. they would work out how many inches of tape made, say, a bar of music and then at the right moment play another tape loop to interact with that which was 3/4 bar so was ever changing. She made that whole theme with no synthesizers!

  • @akashboinpally4389
    @akashboinpally4389 9 місяців тому

    very good video, thanks

  • @shrub74
    @shrub74 12 років тому +1

    Oh man, that was fascinating.

  • @Desmaad
    @Desmaad 14 років тому +2

    Funnily enough, Fairlight released their CMI in the same year as this segment, making this genre of music easier (albeit not cheaper).

  • @loljustice31
    @loljustice31 12 років тому

    YOU ARE SO DEEP AND INTELLIGENT

  • @tooltechrecords
    @tooltechrecords Рік тому

    So interesting. Thx for sharing

  • @WimGrundy
    @WimGrundy 13 років тому +1

    analoguously refreshing

  • @esoteric2slr
    @esoteric2slr 8 років тому +1

    Fascinating!

  • @galko7
    @galko7 14 років тому

    loved the bottles!!!!

  • @wgaule
    @wgaule 15 років тому +2

    Love it!

  • @joshualee4212
    @joshualee4212 7 років тому +1

    Extraordinary. That was how it all started.

  • @LawnmowerJoe
    @LawnmowerJoe 12 років тому +2

    Absolute genius

  • @Outstralian
    @Outstralian 11 років тому +4

    This guy is like the Carl Sagan of electronic music.

  • @theTORTUGAZUL
    @theTORTUGAZUL 8 років тому +1

    It may have started there in 1958, but that was decades after it had originally been started.

  • @Stick3x
    @Stick3x 9 років тому +2

    Awesome.

  • @ky-el1292
    @ky-el1292 7 років тому +1

    One could say that hip hop, in its traditional style, did the same thing but with but with turntables and funk/soul records

  • @sherbetheadmusic
    @sherbetheadmusic 14 років тому

    Awesome, awesome, awesome!

  • @udomatthiasdrums5322
    @udomatthiasdrums5322 3 роки тому +1

    still love it!!

  • @WrvrUgoThrUR
    @WrvrUgoThrUR Рік тому

    The basis and inspiration of modern chill-hop and LoFi.

  • @Velktron
    @Velktron Рік тому

    The ancestor of tracker music.

  • @JeffreyPlaide
    @JeffreyPlaide  12 років тому +1

    The BBC Documentary was broadcast I believe in 1979.

  • @WintersFinalstand
    @WintersFinalstand 10 років тому +1

    Well, Ive learned something new, and I have seen it before without realizing it

  • @hudsoncampos2201
    @hudsoncampos2201 Рік тому +1

    Very cool

  • @Fcutdlady
    @Fcutdlady 4 роки тому +3

    This is similar to how Delia Derbyshire played the Dr who theme.(which I said before I saw and heard mention of it on this clip)

  • @PinkFloydrulez
    @PinkFloydrulez 12 років тому

    this dude is my favorite

  • @SlyHikari03
    @SlyHikari03 3 роки тому

    Thank the lord for Tape recording.

  • @TRaddcliff
    @TRaddcliff 8 років тому

    love this vid

  • @KinneKitsune
    @KinneKitsune 10 років тому

    Those bottles sounded great

  • @synthetic_paul
    @synthetic_paul 2 роки тому

    Certified banger

  • @JeffreyPlaide
    @JeffreyPlaide  13 років тому +1

    Of course,
    Just sample the section you need with some filtering or reverb for effect.

  • @JosephO75
    @JosephO75 10 років тому +1

    this video makes me feel not so alone

  • @grail68
    @grail68 12 років тому

    This guy was having a blast

  • @JSTNtheWZRD
    @JSTNtheWZRD 3 роки тому

    What a strange and wonderful place, this.

  • @Capriccio01
    @Capriccio01 14 років тому +7

    This is so interesting! I would love to be able to experiment with reel-to-reel, sadly at this day in age it's way way too expensive for me...

    • @WrvrUgoThrUR
      @WrvrUgoThrUR Рік тому +1

      This is done these days with modern computer DAWs. Same techniques and aesthetic, but with samolers and sample packs.

  • @TheBassHeavy
    @TheBassHeavy 12 років тому

    Brilliant

  • @luquitagl
    @luquitagl 6 років тому

    This is so interesting

  • @MrTanzadogs
    @MrTanzadogs 11 років тому +6

    Now I know where Pink Floyd got their idea for the intro to 'Money'.... This video!!!

    • @Ailgadem
      @Ailgadem 3 роки тому

      This video is from 1979, Money is from 1973

  • @Yamakoto120
    @Yamakoto120 12 років тому

    Awesomeness

  • @itsmarius6054
    @itsmarius6054 7 років тому +8

    I'm outcast from the material world

  • @LucasFlandria
    @LucasFlandria 15 років тому

    nice upload =)

  • @michaeledwards6683
    @michaeledwards6683 7 років тому +3

    Thank you. I was curious as to what exactly is musique concréte because The Mars Volta use it on various occasions, but I didn't really understand until now. Truth is that I have already been planning to make music this way, but I've been calling it "noise music".

    • @lars38010
      @lars38010 6 років тому +1

      Well as far as i know. Noise music has 4 different sides. Wall Noise,Power Electronics,Harsh Noise and Musique Concrete.

  • @keitomineproductions4133
    @keitomineproductions4133 Рік тому

    this guy just casually explained producing.

  • @jackcimino8822
    @jackcimino8822 7 років тому +24

    I came here because of Wikipedia, not 9gag

    • @swagv
      @swagv 3 роки тому +2

      I came here of my own volition because I'm not an obedient sap

  • @JeffreyPlaide
    @JeffreyPlaide  12 років тому +2

    Hello, I have posted in four parts "The New Sound of Music" - the documentary from which this excerpt came. Have a look. If you still need anything extra, just contact me.

  • @b1ggbyrd
    @b1ggbyrd 11 років тому

    and thus, the first DJ was born