Musique Concrète & Pierre Schaeffer

October 28th, 2010

When I think of Pierre Schaeffer, the first thing that pops into my
head is Bruitage-Étude aux Chemins de Fer (1948), where his material
is train sounds. I spend a lot of time on trains, traveling back and
forth between Oslo and my home in the countryside, and the sound of
trains is pretty much the sound of my everyday. My ears are very
influenced by all the Schaffer-focus at the Norwegian Academy of Music
where I studied, and I have actually come to enjoy categorizing the
sounds around me. I am an active listener to my surroundings and because I want to actively listen to the things, people and places around me, I never use
earphones. I listen to my shoes as they hit the ground – how the timbre
of my footsteps changes as the surface of the ground takes another
form – tarmac, gravel, soil path, a big heap of leaves – a car far
away, slowly moving from background, through middle-ground, to
foreground, in a sonic universe where I will decide what’s in the
center.
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