Program 825: Music from Groupe de Recherches Musicales
KALW Broadcast Date: May 18, 2025 | Host: Devin King
This program features music made by composers associated with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM)—a French composition and research organization founded in the late 1950s by Pierre Schaeffer. Composers at GRM explore the compositional strategy of musique concrète, a proto-form of sampling wherein the composer, rather than writing notation for musicians to play, records so-called “concrete” sounds onto tape and then edits these sounds. This program features Luc Ferrari’s Presque rien, n° 1, le lever du jour au bord de la mer (1967–1970), Beatriz Ferreyra’s Un fil invisible (2009), Christian Zanési’s Stop! L’horizon (1983), and both parts of Bernard Parmegiani’s De Natura Sonorum (1975).
Program Audio
30-Second Spot
Track Info & Links
Title: Presque rien, n° 1, le lever du jour au bord de la mer (1967–1970)
Composer: Luc Ferrari
Recording Title: Music Promenade / Unheimlich Schön
Recording Label: Recollection GRM
Catalog Number: REGRM 005
Title: Un fil invisible (2009)
Composer: Beatriz Ferreyra
Recording Title: GRM Works
Recording Label: Recollection GRM
Catalog Number: REGRM 015
Title: Stop! l’horizon (1983)
Composer: Christian Zanési
Recording Title: Grand Bruit / Stop! l’horizon
Recording Label: Recollection GRM
Catalog Number: REGRM 020
Title: De Natura Sonorum, Première série
Composer: Bernard Parmegiani
Recording Title: De Natura Sonorum
Recording Label: Recollection GRM
Catalog Number: REGRM 009
Title: De Natura Sonorum, Deuxième série
Composer: Bernard Parmegiani
Recording Title: De Natura Sonorum
Recording Label: Recollection GRM
Catalog Number: REGRM 009
