A Revolution in Music: The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales

Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant—garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music—making enabled by new recording technologies and sound pioneers: musique concrète. Évelyne Gayou—herself a researcher, composer, and producer at the GRM—tells the history of the storied institution through the people, works, technologies, and research ...