Pierre Schaeffer, Claude Arrieu

condition (discs/box/book): NM / NM / NM

In 1942, in occupied Paris, Pierre Schaeffer founded the Studio d'Essai at French radio, the room where radio was rethought as an art form and from which musique concrète would emerge a few years later. This four-disc set, with a book, documents the first decade of that adventure, through the Club d'Essai and up to 1952: radio plays, poetry, experiments with sound and voice, works by Schaeffer himself and by composers such as Claude Arrieu.

It is the prehistory of the GRM and a primary document for understanding where French electroacoustic music came from. Published by Phonurgia Nova, the Arles association dedicated to radio art.