#Musique concrete how to

Analogue tape recorders provide us with some options to manipulate sound, like playback direction, speed-pitch, and cut-paste specific parts of the tape into other regions. Now that you have some sounds, you want to manipulate them. Recording your sounds opens more possibilities of expressiveness and is a lot of fun, so some people avoid using sounds that were not recorded by them. If you don't have a mic you can always use sample libraries, videos, songs, any other source of pre-recorded audio. If you know a thing or two about recording and mics (or want to learn), you might want to take your time and experiment with different types of mics (condenser, dynamic, ribbon, different diaphragm sizes, etc) and different recording techniques (position, orientation, maybe stereo techniques like X-Y, ORTF, Blumlein, Mid-Side). If you don't know much about mics and recording, just grab any mic and record without thinking too much about it. Here you can be as pedantic as you can or want. Falling stones, water, voices, rain, cars, wood, strings, metals, anything goes. Grab a mic and start recording whatever sound you find interesting. You can find more in-depth definitions here and here.īefore we can manipulate sounds, we need to record them. Music crafted from the manipulation of recorded sounds. anything that could be helpful to a musician who is completely uneducated about this kind of music.

#Musique concrete how to

Specifically we want to compose and record music, but later on we may also want to try performing it live.Īre there any good tips on how to start out completely from scratch? The do's and don'ts, maybe even some articles that take you by the hand and guide you through the steps of creating a concept and successfully conveying that through musique concrète. Note that, as my brother said, we are not looking to create bad music and call it avant-garde we want to make actual, half-decent musique concrète (or at least have a good time trying). My brother and I both like how this kind of music sounds, and after having played music with more convenient instruments for over a decade, we've been wanting to try things with tape recorders and sound samples instead. I am a rock musician and only know very few good examples of avant-garde music and musique concrète, such as The Beatles' Revolution 9. Music or not music, it is a form of art that I am interested in making. This is probably one of the more obscure music styles, and some of you may not even consider it as a style of music.