Pierre Henry (born December 9, 1927 in
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) is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the
musique concrèteMusique concrète , is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource...
genre of
electronic musicElectronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
.
Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked at the Club d'Essai studio at RTF, founded by
Pierre SchaefferPierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, and engineer most widely recognized as the chief pioneer of musique concrète, a unique form of experimental music that began in Europe during the mid-1900s...
. During this period, he wrote the 1950 piece
Symphonie pour un homme seul, in cooperation with Schaeffer; he also composed the first musique concrète to appear in a commercial film, the 1952 short film
Astrologie ou le miroir de la vie.
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Pierre Henry (born December 9, 1927 in
ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
,
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
) is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the
musique concrèteMusique concrète , is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource...
genre of
electronic musicElectronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
.
Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked at the Club d'Essai studio at RTF, founded by
Pierre SchaefferPierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, and engineer most widely recognized as the chief pioneer of musique concrète, a unique form of experimental music that began in Europe during the mid-1900s...
. During this period, he wrote the 1950 piece
Symphonie pour un homme seul, in cooperation with Schaeffer; he also composed the first musique concrète to appear in a commercial film, the 1952 short film
Astrologie ou le miroir de la vie. Henry has scored numerous additional films and ballets. Among Henry's best known works is the experimental 1967 album
Messe pour le temps présent, one of several cooperations with choreographer
Maurice BéjartMaurice Béjart was a French and Swiss choreographer who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He was the son of the French philosopher Gaston Berger....
featuring the popular track "Psyché Rock." In 1970 Henry collaborated with British rock band
Spooky ToothSpooky Tooth is an English progressive rock band principally active, with intermittent breakups, between 1967 to 1974. In recent years, the band has been reconstituted at various points, and continues to perform occasionally.-Career:...
on the album
Ceremony.
One of Henry's best-known influences on contemporary popular culture is to the theme song of the TV series
FuturamaFuturama is an animated American sci-fi sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...
. The tune is inspired by Henry's 1967 composition "Psyché Rock."
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