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Article: OBITUARY:Pierre Schaeffer
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 31, 1995
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In the world of Pierre Schaeffer, experimentation and
entertainment were synonymous; any division between the avant-garde
and the everyday simply did not exist. Schaeffer was perhaps best
known internationally as the inventor of musique concrete, among
the most radical innovations of 20th-century music, but in France
he was better loved as the originator of the Shadocks, a cartoon
series still adored by every Gallic thirtysomething.
Born to a musical family in Nancy, Schaeffer mastered a
technical understanding of radio early, working as an engineer for
Telecom before setting up his own sound studio in 1943 when he
began the series of radiophonic experiments that continued all his
life. ...