Radigue went to study musique concrète with Schaeffer and fellow composer Pierre Henry, and later she worked for them as an assistant.
On Mr. Mazurek's next record, a work of musique concréte, made under the name "Orton Socket," things promise to get even weirder, for he has scrapped the cornet (not to mention any semblance of jazz) in favor of his favorite new toy: a laptop.
A key work in musique concrete - where industrial and traffic noises, natural sounds and voices were tape-recorded and then altered by re-recording them backwards at different speeds and with different effects - this is, in essence, fantastically odd electronic experimentalism, which, in 1968, was a hell of more difficult to realise than it is now.
In 1950, Mr. Henry worked with musique concrète's originator, Pierre Schaeffer, to create "Symphonie Pour un Homme Seul" ("Symphony for a Solitary Man"), a composition that used sounds to portray a man and his daily activities.
Kirchin emphasised the distinction between what he was up to and the work of the musique concrète composers.
Picasso's late Cubist work Instruments de Musique sur un Guéridon, one of several masterpieces that adorned the designer's Parisian apartment on the rue de Babylone, is expected to fetch up to €40m.
Mayuzumi's Shusaku I (1955; Study I) represented the first Japanese example of synthetic electronic music, and X,Y, Z(1955) became the first Japanese work to use musique concrète, a modernist technique consisting of a recorded montage of electronically altered natural sounds.
Underpinning it all is Mica Levi, whose awe-inspiring work inhabits that strange musique concrète netherworld between score and sound effects.
In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works.
Released this year, her latest album Four Meditations/Sound Geometries, finds the 84-year-old American composer and musician working with Belgian ensemble Musique Nouvelles.
