This book presents the history of Pierre Schaeffer's experiments from 1932 to 1986.
Table of contents:
- The Advent of Relay Arts
- A Twentieth Century Flint
- Trials and Purgatory
- 1910-39 Apprenticeship
- 1940-44. Jeune France - The Studio d'essai
- 1945-53 Missions and Embassies/ Musique concrète
- 1954-59 Overseas Radio / Musical Research
- 1960-74 The «“Service de la Recherche”
- 1975-80 Let the struggle go on
- 1981-95 Writings