Electroacoustic Music Styles



Musique Concrète
Typically French music pioneered by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry. To my ears Musique Concrète often has an element of humour in it.

Elektronische Musik
As opposed to Musique Concrète, elektronische Musik was based on serialist principles. Its disciples saw EA music as the final means to achieve total serialism of all elements (pitch, rhythm, timbre) of music. Very disciplined, very German...

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