I am now happy with my musique concrete piece which I have tried to improve several times to try and imitate Pierre Schaeffer. I recorded many different objects at home and then cut up various sections and brought sounds in at different times. I listened to Pierre Schaeffer’s album L’CEuvre Musicale in which some good techniques are used such as the fading of different noises in the piece ‘Andante’ when the classical piano section which eventually fades into some discordant sounds. My first approach to my piece left it with too much of a narrative as I had too many of the same sounds on going through out the whole piece. I eventually started leaving silence in between different sounds which I wasn’t originally doing, and this brought a whole new texture to the piece. After this I created build ups of different sounds, so I would have several sounds with silence in between and then I would suddenly have more things happening at the same time to try and differ the piece from being too predictable to the listener.
you can hear it below
