How to make Musique Concrète

[@z0nnexie]

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

[@yogiyahya35]

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

[@michaelmazzen]

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

[@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.

[@SlyHikari03]

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

[@mapachekamikaze5124]

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

[@unduloid]

Andri is the anti-me!

[@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 ?!

[@ztmusic2789]

Musique Concrète is the definition of the quote “This is a journey into sound.”

[@GreyishHouse]

Yes

[@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.

[@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.

[@Gibusnipu]

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

[@CommanderKappa]

Its real

[@kyle175]

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

[@Avliv_Satan]

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

[@SrGillespie]

le shitpost of music

[@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

[@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.

[@ztmusic2789]

I would also say the intro sample to “Blinded by Fear” by Swedish Melodic Death Metal band At The Gates is also a good example of Musique Concrète.

[@illeism9119]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@godlaydying]

Really everyone is a mashup of their parents.

[@salticus]

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

[@Insanabiliter_In_Linea]

I've had a fascination for noise music, melodic drone and stuff like this for ages now, I have no idea why, it just sounds so unique and cool. I should try my hand at making something like this at some point, it looks like it's really fun tbh, even though I know full well almost everyone would hate it lol.

[@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.

[@Zeqhrox]

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

[@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

[@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

[@dimitri4004]

Actually the sounds you came up with were reaally cool

[@M3MB3Rrr]

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

[@endingoodgame]

Welcome back. Pagefire 4 life

[@LauraOvTheePsychicYouth]

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

[@CreepyT]

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

[@cenozoaband]

Don't know why, but I love it

[@kaynesantor8136]

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

[@dianagales5453]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@flyjayofficial]

this is so good

[@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.

[@mauriciopegini2705]

This video is amazing and the music at end is genius

[@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.

[@iii2187]

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

[@kal317]

That track came out nasty, niiice

[@melancholoid]

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

[@herobrineband]

martin is scaring me

[@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!

[@joshuaperrin3910]

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

[@nickkohlmann]

"We have Tipsy at home"

[@pierrelahaie6359]

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

[@CuzicanAerospace]

Needed more Martin in the video.

[@nigroplus]

Hahahaha! great as always; and the song sounds good

[@Edyime]

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

[@vorpalblades]

There is no The in their name.

[@Edyime]

@@vorpalblades ☝🤓

[@CryptToneMusic]

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

[@davidbarton1928]

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

[@luca_giaco2135]

It would be so cool to see industrial metal next.

[@lil_astrid_adderal]

you should do skramz/emoviolence

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

And mincecore lol

[@DokkaChapman]

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

[@wibblywobblyidiotvision]

Not long enough, but the track title makes up for it.

[@gearmachine_4885]

Certified banger 👌

[@samaelherself4286]

Honestly, the track was pretty enjoyable.

[@superkingytp5482]

This is art.

[@h3llonearf697]

Finally you guys make a new video

[@xenonvinc]

I loved the song! 10/10

[@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

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Nice, sounds like 80’s Foetus

[@MattyandtheMusic]

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

[@MattyandtheMusic]

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 (?).

[@Koutsie]

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

[@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 !

[@vilaintrolltrollinsky8007]

Beau travail, c'est mieux que du CyberGrind.

[@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.

[@alexmorado2182]

This is great!

[@vincentandlois146]

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

[@Chase-lw2pi]

This is basically just how to be radiohead

[@bugcake006]

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

[@Mordann_bm]

I actually like this

[@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

[@theonlycatonice]

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

[@SecretSocietyofGoths]

ive always kinda wanted to do that

[@Child_of_Old_Gods]

This is the soundtrack for my sleep paralysis demon.

[@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.

[@IKJules]

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

[@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.

[@hellowhirled]

this is awesome

[@mandolinistry3207]

Please do Harsh Noise Wall next.

[@PrimordialNightmare]

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

[@shpongled587]

I hate the sadness.

[@Jonttu87YT]

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

[@Meeplord2017]

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

[@narlabegins]

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

[@Reaction_Image_Factory]

Also can you please release the instrumental to mfers from outer space?

[@Reaction_Image_Factory]

Psychostick refers to this as MICIN' SHIT UP

[@staramas1733]

Is this modern art in audio form?

[@growskull]

its more postmodern

[@ИльяФедяшин-л9о]

The clip very scary!!!!!😮😮😮

[@noisehippo1561]

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

[@anothershyguy]

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

[@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! 👍

[@zombiTrout]

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

[@Grevnor]

Maybe Aggrotech next?

[@lunatricks]

Please do "How to make Egg Punk"

[@TylerAStinson]

Musique Concrete AKA Revolution No. 9 by The Beatles

[@schonerhimmel3367]

Suggestion: how to make beatdown