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Pierre Georges Albert François Henry ( French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ɑ̃ʁi]; 9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) [1] was a French composer and pioneer of musique concrète. [2] Biography. Henry was born in Paris, France, [3] and began experimenting at the age of 15 with sounds produced by various objects.
Jul 8, 2017 · A daring French composer died earlier this week: Pierre Henry, who was 89 years old when he died on the night of July 5. His death was announced by his assistant and friend, Isabelle Warnier ...
Jul 7, 2017 · Pierre Henry, a composer whose experiments with electronically manipulated sound helped create the style known as musique concrète and anticipated the innovations of techno, died on Thursday in...
Dec 9, 2023 · Pierre Henry, who died on July 4, 2017, aged 89, has long been acknowledged as a key figure in the development of electroacoustic and electronic music. Here was a galvanic and liberating presence...
Jul 8, 2017 · Pierre Henry, a true giant of 20th-century musical exploration, died this week at the age of 89, as reported by Le Monde. The composer began exploring the nascent possibilities of...
A pioneer of electronic music, Pierre Henry (1927-2017) has, since the 1950s, alongside Pierre Schaeffer, laid the foundations of what characterizes the music of our time. At the time, everything had to be invented: the sounds, the tools to manipulate them, the ways of broadcasting them.
Jul 8, 2017 · A daring French composer died earlier this week: Pierre Henry, who was 89 years old when he died on the night of July 5. His death was announced by his assistant and friend, Isabelle Warnier, though the cause was undisclosed.
Pierre Henry, born in 1927, was the first traditionally trained composer to join Pierre Schaeffer in the adventure of "musique concrète" (lit. concrete music) in 1949. He became one of the most renowned composers of his time and the leading creator of electroacoustic music, a new form of expression that he cultivated and celebrated more than ...
As an illustrator for albums, he has been supporting children's stories since the 1950s, as well as readings from the Gospels and the Psalms, with his sounds even used in recordings by Urban Sax, from the rock group Violent Femmes or by trumpeter Erik Truffaz - in More, in 2000.
Jul 7, 2017 · The French composer Pierre Henry, who died on Thursday, was a pioneer of musique concrète, which records existing sounds and turns them into musical collages. His mechanical techniques were an...
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