Composer, arranger, theorist and music historian Pierre Henry (1927-2017), a
pupil of Olivier Messaien, was, alongside Pierre Schaeffer, one of the inventors
of electroacoustic music. Although he did not philosophize on the very concept
of musique concrète, as his partner and mentor in the GRMC (Groupe de Recherche
sur la Musique Concrète) was able to do by leading think tanks, the author of
Variation pour une porte et un soupir, Fragments pour Artaud and Le Livre des
morts égyptien was one of the most prolific researchers in this field, going
beyond the strictly technical framew...