How to make Musique Concrète

Music is everywhere, and thanks to recording equipment, it's even more everywhere. In this video, the Pagefire crew will go over an experimental genre where field recordings become a rhythmic nightmare.
#MusiqueConcrete #avantgarde #pagefiretutorial
Stream the song here:
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All background music can be found here:
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CREDIT
Andri: Script, Voice-over, video editing, music, sound design, mixing and "mastering"
A-L: Script, camera assist
Metal-Martin: Script, research help
OG-Martin: Moral support
UK-Martin: Take a wild guess
Lovey Metalhead: Close Captions (English)
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:57 the history of recorded music i guess
02:20 examples of the genre
05:15 recording sounds for the song
06:25 making the song (Reaper Tutorial)
08:54 the song
10:26 finale
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[@z0nnexie]

"Congratulation! You've made... art?"🤣

[@michaelmazzen]

R E V E R S E O V E N G R I D Now there's a band name...

[@yogiyahya35]

9:00 "They just standing there.....MENACINGLY"

[@SlyHikari03]

The original ambient noise music. Basically the war retired grandpa.

[@crustbag]

I'm gonna play this song at my wedding

[@eyaltuizer3301]

crustony bagtano???!!!??

[@orikarin714]

Oh hi crustbag

[@shroomlord682]

Crustid bagth??

[@noze_746]

A wild Crustany Bagtano appeared

[@bossu5648]

baggieous von crustus ?!

[@ShitNoiseOfficial]

As a fan of noise and every weird music genre on earth, I adore this video.

[@Mordann_bm]

Yo dude, let's make it a real genre

[@ShitNoiseOfficial]

@@Mordann_bm make what a real genre? My username? Lol all my songs are that

[@ButWhyMe...]

Even sasscore? Like, racebannon?

[@ShitNoiseOfficial]

@@ButWhyMe... i plan on making a tutorial on sasscore one day!

[@malevolentmaelstrom1246]

I make weird noise music as well. This video is great. I’m gonna check some of your stuff out.

[@mapachekamikaze5124]

this is keeping the tradition of "whatever genre Andri touches ends up sounding even better"

[@unduloid]

Andri is the anti-me!

[@inanimatecarbongod]

Funnily enough, I have a whole CD set of Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrete sitting next to me right now. Considering what he had to work with in 1948, he would've found this mind-blowing.

[@amos_fr6070]

As a French, I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed that we have created such a thing. Also the song's name is superb! Alors continuez votre bon travail car vos vidéos sont géniales !

[@sebastianevangelista4921]

Every music student needs to see this! I think that this is one of the best videos that you guys have put out because it covers the history of music at large.

[@williamconnor593]

I am SOOOOOO showing this to my History of Electronic Music class at the university where I teach... You literally touch on a majority of things I already cover in the lesson. Genius! (also, love the Nekonom(i)con shirt at the end! Nice...) Thank you!

[@thegryf45]

AETHER REALM SHIRST LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@Gibusnipu]

Dispite it being april fools, honestly love how high effort the vid is

[@CommanderKappa]

Its real

[@Avliv_Satan]

Despite it being April fool's, Musique Concrète is an actual genre

[@SrGillespie]

le shitpost of music

[@Zeqhrox]

I'm still waiting for a tutorial on Dream Theater. Also, absolute banger of an April fools video

[@goodlookingcorpse]

Really everyone is a mashup of their parents.

[@kyle175]

Watched many of this channels videos. Never felt compelled to post a comment until now. I really enjoyed the track.

[@illeism9119]

best video since post-punk & doomer videos - spread those musical wings

[@stuartchapman5171]

I know and love the genre, I run an experimental electronic open mic called Breezeblock Beats, the names a homage to the pioneers. You nailed it in this video. Gret compisition at the end.

[@jaysmakingprogress]

This is the first time I’ve seen one of your videos. I was searching musique concrète and this popped up. This is literally the best video on KZbin. +1 sub

[@M3MB3Rrr]

I was not expecting this, but kind of really cool and interesting. :)

[@Purplef0xlovesfnaf]

Welcome back. Pagefire 4 life

[@davidbarton1928]

Hey that's BBC presenter Michael Rodd from Tomorrow's World and Screen Test at the beginning!

[@MorwenWhyte]

I remember I found about Musique Concrète and that sort of stuff thanks to MySpace, when I was choosing the genres of my band and there was "Acousmatic Tape Music" in the list. Ah, the good old times of the Interweb.

[@dianagales5453]

Awesome video explaining the origins of the lovely songs I ever heard

[@themusicaljunkie37]

I just gravitate toward weird noise avant garde music especially the types that pushes the definition of what is music. Also, I love when artists use non instruments and turn it into music. (Matmos.) This video is awesome.

[@mauriciopegini2705]

This video is amazing and the music at end is genius

[@theonlycatonice]

"WHAT DID THE BIG BANG SAMPLE!?" 💀💀💀😂😂😂

[@smooches-the-deathmetal-bunny]

for the intro to a solo album i did i recorded a few people making random sounds like coughing or just grunting and made a short electronic thing

[@BocchiKills]

If everything is a sample then life is just an unedited youtubepoop

[@user-O_06660_O]

OK: still have to watch the video, but as a savage metalhead who's ended up studying electronic music at the conservatoire for some reason, i'm hyped. Edit: oke, studying this stuff, i can confirm we actually do go around sampling random stuff and then deconstruct and reconstruct it on computers.

[@nigroplus]

Hahahaha! great as always; and the song sounds good

[@cenozoaband]

Don't know why, but I love it

[@alexmorado2182]

This is great!

[@pierrelahaie6359]

This is weirdly relaxing on its own, and a good background for some Syd Barrett guitar. Bonus: Even the video is good!

[@luca848stars]

funny as hell! 🤣 i've actually have a degree in this kind of stuff and i can guarantee for you that the piece would be considered too rhythmic and melodic in the obscure and evil classrooms of conservatories 😂 but sounds very fun!

[@hellowhirled]

this is awesome

[@superkingytp5482]

This is art.

[@imlxh7126]

3:55 MY BOYS. gonna pour one out for floschno tonight 😔 EDIT: ok 5:23 is the best visual gag i've seen in a while. i love it. great job guys

[@melancholoid]

Awesome Vid! Thank You very much for Your Work! Greetings from Germany

[@kal317]

That track came out nasty, niiice

[@user-ku6uf2qj1l]

I was literally thinking to myself less than an hour ago about how much I like pagefire and wish they would upload more often.

[@CBolt17]

In Judas Priests' "Metal Gods" the clanging at the end, to resemble chains, is utensils being shaken in the tray. Does that count? Lol

[@xenonvinc]

I loved the song! 10/10

[@kaynesantor8136]

Amazing. Where you boys been? Glad you're back.

[@timothyissler3815]

I unironically like this genre, particularly "Dripsody". The guy literally recorded a single drop of water, and then just manipulated the tape to hell and back, and make it this really trippy two-minute little piece. Also the original 1960s Doctor Who theme music was technically musique concrete, because they didn't bother commissioning an artist to do it, so people in the sound department just took whatever they had in the BBC sound catalogue and patched it into the now-iconic theme.

[@salticus]

Took a while for me to understand that this is not a fake genre for April fools, like Backpedal xD.

[@luca_giaco2135]

It would be so cool to see industrial metal next.

[@gearmachine_4885]

Certified banger 👌

[@dimitri4004]

Actually the sounds you came up with were reaally cool

[@lil_astrid_adderal]

you should do skramz/emoviolence

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

And mincecore lol

[@CuzicanAerospace]

Needed more Martin in the video.

[@freightlord8600]

i forgot i had this playing in the background and was like damn what is this banger of a track. im afraid ive become too pretentious

[@IKJules]

1 day of trying to pagefire makes a video of how to make industrial metal

[@h3llonearf697]

Finally you guys make a new video

[@samaelherself4286]

Honestly, the track was pretty enjoyable.

[@martinthedrainedsedlak]

4:08 so happy y'all finally mentioned one of my favorite bands ever

[@Mordann_bm]

I actually like this

[@user-zq7ul6vq6z]

The clip very scary!!!!!😮😮😮

[@horgh_japan]

I'm sad you didn't mention the random KZbin videos of people reproducing famous pop songs using only a single noise making objects like "Beat It" but it's only door stoppers. Essentially NileRed videos for music.

[@herobrineband]

martin is scaring me

[@nickkohlmann]

"We have Tipsy at home"

[@iii2187]

as trent reznor in a NIN song said: i'm just a copy of a copy of a copy....

[@Jonttu87YT]

Damm! This genre is so nice and so easy 😅😅😅

[@CreepyT]

@5:00 Musique Concrete leading to Existential Dread is not only the funniest part but the truest as well!

[@Chase-lw2pi]

This is basically just how to be radiohead

[@SecretSocietyofGoths]

ive always kinda wanted to do that

[@tvfrank666]

8:54 What I really like is how the music he made sounds like one of those stop motion shorts film from the 90s, 2000's, and early 2010's.

[@vilaintrolltrollinsky8007]

Beau travail, c'est mieux que du CyberGrind.

[@Mattythebassist_]

Why did this not turn up in my recommendations last month or my subscription feed. I was literally writing some musique concrète inspired music for my college project. I wou’d’ve sited this video so much lol just for fun. Would’ve been such a great way to make my tutors pagefire fans lol

[@Mattythebassist_]

Should’ve also sited Martin’s paper. That would probably have been the better source lol though I don’t think my tutors speak Norwegian (?).

[@vincentandlois146]

we need a video of avant garde metal or experimental metal video

[@theviolencecult]

Hmmmm nice

[@user-kl9sr4ry6s]

edutainment gud

[@DokkaChapman]

This makes me want to dig out some of the early Young Gods albums.

[@Edyime]

I made a Musique Concrete album when I was in highschool, my inspiration was "Prick" by the Melvins

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Nice, sounds like 80’s Foetus

[@CryptToneMusic]

Throw in some convolution reverb and granular synths! You can really go crazy with sounds then!

[@Traductus5972]

I mean this just shows how important John Cage is to music, he invented sampling by inventing electro acoustic music and then musique concrete was invented.

[@Koutsie]

koskenkorva in the background... like everyone should :D

[@joshuaperrin3910]

Makes me think of all of the ambient Cyberpunk music I listen to.

[@shpongled587]

I hate the sadness.

[@connorreigel3692]

Wow! This reminds me of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop sound effects for radio and television. Nice job, Pagefire! Can you try elektronische musik in reaper too? Both Musique concrete and elektronische musik are both made by the bbc radiophonic workshop.

[@Meeplord2017]

Ngl is it weird that I sorta vibed with the song?

[@narlabegins]

This is Pagefire. Every single song is able to vibe with.

[@IKJules]

2 day of trying to pagefire makes a video of how to make industrial

[@daccrowell4776]

Amusing AF, y'all! Couple of addenda, tho... Some of the history on this goes back to before WWI, when the Italian composer and painter Luigi Russolo developed his concept of "Noise Music". This was performed using his "intonarumori", an ensemble of instruments designed to make and acoustically amplify various noise types. Sadly, there's only two poor-quality recordings of this, and Russolo's intonarumori were accidentally destroyed during the war. The other? A classical fave, Ottorino Respighi's "The Pines of Rome". Hah? Wut? No lie...that is the first musical work that SPECIFICALLY calls for a sample, and original scores of it actually came with a 78 RPM record containing the call of a nightingale, to be played during one section of the work. Amusingly, present-day performances of Respighi's work tend to use actual samplers with a proper digital recording of a nightingale...so, yeah. Oh...and in order to multitrack in the early, pre-Les Paul days, studios would use these frankenstein-ish cutting lathes with multiple, synchronized cutting heads and a similar arrangement of tone arms for multitrack playback. No, don't even ask; of course they were cumbersome and easy to f*** up, but worse still is that the "burr" being cut from the acetate disk was (and still is) insanely flammable. If the burr caught fire, you only had a matter of seconds to extinguish it before the ENTIRE LATHE would go up in a blaze of burning acetate! Only one studio in the USA that I know of used these, namely Columbia-Princeton in their "RCA Mk. II" studio...and then for only a short time as safer and less-screw up-able multitrack tape was finally available by the late 1950s. Great work, tho...MUCH better explanation of Musique Concrete than one normally hears, especially that tutorial track. Took me back to the late 1970s and my own initial explorations with splicing tape, blocks, and tape machine abuse in general! 👍

[@PrimordialNightmare]

When you realize the instructions from 07:07 onwards literally describe your workflow ö_ö

[@noisehippo1561]

If youre into Musique Concrete inspired stuff i can't recommend french musician Lingouf or the german Einstürzende Neubauten enought.

[@zombiTrout]

The music from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is some great concrete musique.

[@corneliuseisenheim3824]

This is the soundtrack for my sleep paralysis demon.

[@OzirMusic]

3:15 I got to point out this isn't the original '67 version of "Psyché Rock" but instead a version called "Malpaso Mix" made by Fat Boy Slim in '97!

[@OzirMusic]

I wasn't familiar with either one of the versions before seeing this video, though, but for a moment I was really confused about how on earth could a song from '67 sound this modern! Like surely Pierre Henry was ahead of his time but the breakbeat made me suspicious

[@mandolinistry3207]

Please do Harsh Noise Wall next.

[@anothershyguy]

Could you guys do a *how to make grunge* next?

[@chucku00]

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[@pandalilpig]

!!!

[@adancein]

train

[@depauleable]

based

[@schonerhimmel3367]

Suggestion: how to make beatdown

[@lunatricks]

Please do "How to make Egg Punk"

[@bugcake006]

8:50 that's an.. interesting name for the song

[@rifman6895]

Psychostick refers to this as MICIN' SHIT UP