Sunday Synth Jam: This piece, by Todd Barton, is a short short “musique concrète” style piece, created from variations on a single self-generating patch on a small Buchla 200e analog synthesizer system.
Is is still a synth jam?
Yes – but the synth is doing the jamming.
it's not musique concrete… mc is tape-based without any synthesizers… Pierre Schaeffer from GRM studios in france is the originator of the genre…
I think ur thinking of the Buchla 100 series-heavy stuff from the Columbia-Princeton school in the 1960s by Mortin Subotnik…
musique concrète refers to the idea of treating sound as a tangible source material for creating music, rather than a specific technology.
that's part of it, but traditionally mc does not use synths… in fact the GRM guys were against their use for a long time… there was a bit of scholarly competition between them and the German elektroniche style school for a while over which experimental method was more musical.
I said it reminded me of Subotnik cause he used a buchla… you def are correct in that it sounds very mc tho… I guess it's more of a modern electroacoustic version of mc if anything… sorry if the last post came out the wrong way…
musique concrète refers to the idea of treating sound as a tangible source material for creating music, rather than a specific technology. agreed