Pierre Schaeffer

France, 1948–1995

French engineer and composer. Inventor of musique concrète — recorded and processed real-world sounds as the basis of composition. Founder of the GRM studio.

Influenced by

• Luigi Russolo
• Edgard Varèse

Influenced

• Jean-Michel Jarre
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Nurse With Wound
• Pierre Henry
• Daphne Oram
• Else Marie Pade
• Tod Dockstader
• Vladimir Ussachevsky
• Luc Ferrari
• Bernard Parmegiani