Pioneering french electro-acoustic research group INA-GRM survey 70 years of groundbreaking electronic composition highlighting similarities and distance travelled since the late 1940s
The 9 pieces range from a 1949 work by Pierre Henry, who co-founded the GRMC (Groupe de recherché de musique concrète) with Pierre Schaeffer, thru to the spellbinding polymetric percussion of Jean Schwarz’s ‘Cloches’ [1972], a sweltering psychedelic workout in Bernard Parmegiani’s ‘Kaleidoscope II (Issu de pour en finer aver le pouvoir d’orphee)’ [1972], the playful pulses of François Bayle’s ‘Polyrythmie (Issu de vibrations composées)’ [1973] - a big look for Florian Hecker fans - and, most recently, the psych-pop of ‘Iraq Song’ from Christan Zanési, Fennesz & Mika Vainio’s ‘GRM Experience’ album.