Pierre Henry

French composers, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, and their associates at Radiodiffusion et Télévision Française in Paris began to produce tape collages (analogous to collages in the visual arts), which they called musique concrète. All the materials they processed on tape were recorded sounds—sound effects, musical fragments, vocalizings, and other…

…by Schaeffer and his collaborator, Pierre Henry, is one of the landmarks of musique concrète, for it laid the technical and aesthetic foundations for much of the later tape music.