Edinburgh Research Explorer Hearing the music of others Citation for published version: Valiquet, P 2017, 'Hearing the music of others: Pierre Schaeffer's humanist interdiscipline', Music and Letters, vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 255-280. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcx052 Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1093/ml/gcx052 Link: Link to publication record in Edinburgh Research Explorer Document Version: Peer reviewed version Published In: Music and Letters General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The University of Edinburgh has made every reasonable effort to ensure that Edinburgh Research Explorer content complies with UK legislation. If you believe that the public display of this file breaches copyright please contact
[email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 24. Sep. 2021 1 Hearing the Music of Others: Pierre Schaeffer's Humanist Interdiscipline1 Patrick Valiquet, Institute of Musical Research [First revision, 24 November 2016 – corrected 30 March 2017] Published in 1966 and revised in 1977, the Traité des objets musicaux (Treatise on musical objets) represents the culmination of Pierre Schaeffer's thinking on the nature of music and sound. Building upon more than a quarter century of broadcasting and compositional research, Schaeffer's book saw immediate adoption as a research guide by the composers and technicians of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), the experimental broadcasting unit Schaeffer founded in 1958.