Variations pour une porte et un soupir

by Pierre Henry

Variations pour une porte et un soupir cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Philips
  • Country: France
  • Length: 45:25
  • Community rating: 4.15/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A towering achievement in musique concr猫te, this avant-garde masterwork is composed entirely from the manipulated recordings of a creaking door and human sighs. Pierre Henry systematically explores themes of tension, breath, and spatial acoustics across the twenty-five movements, avoiding traditional musical notation entirely. It remains a radical, highly influential cornerstone of 20th-century electroacoustic composition.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, electronic, deconstructed, effects-laden, experimental, conceptual, suite

Tracklist

  1. Sommeil (2:52)
  2. Balancement (1:12)
  3. Chant 1 (0:27)
  4. Eveil (1:23)
  5. Chant 2 (1:33)
  6. Etirement (0:58)
  7. Gestes (1:37)
  8. Comptine (1:32)
  9. Fi猫vre 1 (2:18)
  10. B芒illement (1:46)
  11. Chant 3 (1:44)
  12. Col猫re (1:44)
  13. Balancement 2 (1:32)
  14. Respirations (1:57)
  15. Fi猫vre 2 (2:28)
  16. Gymnastique (2:12)
  17. Chant 4 (0:35)
  18. Braiements (1:30)
  19. Vagues (1:35)
  20. Chant 5 (1:22)
  21. Transe (2:06)
  22. R芒les (2:15)
  23. Ronflement (2:37)
  24. Chant 6 (0:55)
  25. Mort (5:15)

Credits

  • Pierre Henry - primary artist, composed by
  • Jacques Lonchampt - liner notes
  • Maurice B茅jart - liner notes
  • Pierre Brochet - photography by

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