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Henri Pousseur
12+ albums
contemporary classicalAvant-Gardemusique concreteexperimentalbelgian
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Henri Pousseur (born 23 June 1929, Malmedy, died 6 March 2009) was a Belgian composer. Pousseur studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and André Souris. He encountered Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio and thereafter devoted himself to avant-garde research. Beginning around 1960, he collaborated with Michel Butor on a number of projects, most notably the opera Votre Faust (1961–68). Pousseur has taught in Cologne, Basel, and in the United States at SUNY Buffalo, as well as in his native Belgium. From 1970 until his retirement in 1988 he taught at the University and Conservatory of Liège where he also founded the Centre de recherches et de formation musicales de Wallonie. Generally regarded as a member of the Darmstadt School in the 1950s, Pousseur's music employs serialism, mobile forms, and aleatory, often mediating between or among seemingly irreconcilable styles, such as those of Schubert and Webern (Votre Faust), or Pousseur's own serial style and the protest song "We shall overcome" (Couleurs croisées). His electronic composition Scambi (Exchanges), realized at the Studio di Fonologia in Milan in 1957, is unusual in the tape-music medium because it is explicitly meant to be assembled in different ways before listening. When first created, several different versions were realized, two by Luciano Berio, one by Marc Wilkinson, and two by the composer himself (Sabb
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albums
An Anthology Of Noise And Electronic Music Vol,1
Acousmatrix - The History of Electronic Music IV
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Forbidden Planets - Music From the Pioneers of Electronic Sound
Pousseur: Aquarius-Memorial
Electronic experimental and microtonal 1953-1999
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An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001 (1)
Parabolique d'enfer / Parabolic from Hell
Paysages Planétaires
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001
Acousmatrix 4
Liège à paris
4 Parabolic Mixes