10-LP box set PIERRE HENRY Choix d'Oeuvres de 1950-1985 ltd ed vinyl avant-garde

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Beautiful 10-LP deluxe limited edition box set: PIERRE HENRY - CHOIX D'OEUVRES DE 1950 - 1985 - issued by Vinyl on Demand in 2015; catalog number VOD133; made in Germany. Includes the official certificate card noting that this is a limited edition of 400 copies. Pierre Henry is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music. Due to the weight of this item, overseas shipping will cost more than $35 - overseas bidders please contact me first to determine the exact cost.

Super-heavyweight 10 x LP edition containing almost 10 hours of music organized by progressing themes and by technological progress, covering his output between 1950 and 1985 - the ultimate anthology covering the first 35 years of his work - housed in a heavy silver-embossed box with 4-page booklet of liner notes. Individually numbered edition of 400 copies only. 

Vinyl on Demand has created a jaw-dropping and invaluable 10-LP anthology spanning half a lifetime of Pierre Henry's pioneering electro-acoustic composition. Henry is undoubtedly one of the 20th century's most important sonic thinkers. Following studies with Olivier Messiaen (harmony) and Nadia Boulanger (composition), he formed the pivotal GRM (Musical Research Group) with Pierre Schaeffer around 1950 in order to fully explore their shared notion of a concrète, electro-acoustic music, creating a facility where sounds could be uprooted, processed and transformed as far as their imagination and technology could take them. Henry's work during the period covered in this box set more or less set a precedent for electronic music: he would be among the first to explore myriad techniques for processing sound, advancing a sonic spirit which would deeply feed forward and irrevocably open the dimensions of contemporary music ever since, from AFX's mechanized instruments to the filigree dynamics of Arca and so, so much between. Henry's oeuvre deals with sound at elemental levels, effecting painstakingly-edited fragments of tape recordings thru a matrix of self-built modules in order to render and focus upon their resonant qualities and spatial values and their place "in-the-mix". Bearing that in mind, the music in this box set has been restored and mastered by Jos Smolders of Earlabs according to the artist's intention and approach, yielding near enough 10 hours of seminal composition in uncanny clarity. From earliest endeavors such as the haunting 'Symphonie pour un homme seul' 1950, to the prototypical studies of 'Spatiodynamisme' (1952), thru the Greek epic-inspired 'Voile d'Orphée' and later cut-ups of 'La Xème symphonie de Beethoven' (1979), he consistently pushes the doors of perception wide open to reveal new dimensions of sound and audition.

Condition: MINT/NEAR MINT (though not sealed, the vinyl appears to be unplayed and has been stored outside of the inner sleeves and is in mint condition; the box has some minimal scuffing; inner sleeves are mint; the only issue is very minimal - the booklet has a very light corner wrinkle). 

(Records, Vinyl, LP, 33 rpm, Box Set, French, Composer, Experimental, 12", Dance & Electronica, Limited Edition, Avant-Garde, Found Sounds, Samples, Electronic, Noise, 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's).



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