The term ‘concrète’ music was coined in the 1940s by Paris-based engineer, composer and sonic experimentalist Pierre Schaeffer. Defined as music created using recorded sound as source material (ie ...

The trumpet of Paolo Fresu, on a Parisian afternoon in the 1980s, still resonates today in the memory of those who were there ...

When the Summer Solstice arrives on Saturday, millions of people across France will attend the impromptu street concerts of “Fête de La Musique” hosted by restaurants, bars, museums and even libraries ...

Hey, everybody knows that top ten lists are bunk. You don't need a degree in Bourdieu studies to know that canon-building and canon-tweaking are inevitably relative and contingent exercises, but it's ...

The French will be partying through the heatwave today for the 2025 edition of the 'Fête de la Musique.' This local celebration of music takes place every year on June 21st since 1982, and is ...

In 1982, the very first Fête de la Musique was held in Paris. Planned by the French Ministry of Culture, musical performances were maximized on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, in a ...

Musique concrète originally dates from the late 1940s. Pierre Schaeffer and colleagues working for France’s public radio station, Radiodiffusion Française (RDF) experimented with sound effects and ...

Attendees gather before the stage during the annual "Fête de la musique" avent at the Elysée Palace in Paris on June 21, 2024. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP On the eve of France's annual Fête de la Musique ...

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Au Gabon, la vie musicale moderne se caractérise par une rareté de la pratique instrumentale et par un élitisme croissant qui tranchent/contrastent avec la richesse organologique et le communautarisme ...