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Concret PH

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Concret PH, composed by Iannis Xenakis in 1958, is an approximately two-and-a-half-minute electroacoustic work (musique concrète) created for the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World’s Fair held that year. Main features and background • Source material: It uses only recordings of burning charcoal, chopped into one-second fragments. • Production methods: Tape splicing, changes in playback speed, and mixing create continuous changes in sound with a granular texture. • Role in the Philips Pavilion: At the pavilion, whose architectural design was undertaken by Le Corbusier, the work was played through 425 loudspeakers as an interlude for visitors entering and leaving, between presentations of Edgard Varèse’s Poème électronique. • Origin of the title: PH derives from the architectural structure of hyperbolic paraboloids (paraboloïdes hyperboliques), while the name also draws on concrete and musique concrète.

Source updated 2026-10-18 · Snapshot 2026-10-30

Why this topic?

Placed in Sound because the note describes Xenakis’s tape composition using recorded sound, near references to musique concrète.

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Source links and calculated neighbors

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  • 《pH》 1992Computed lexical cosine similarity 0.400 · shared title, text, tags and references
  • Philips PavilionComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.241 · shared title, text, tags and references
  • Musique Concrète: France and GRMCComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.144 · shared title, text, tags and references
  • Musique concrèteComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.125 · shared title, text, tags and references
  • Musique ConcrèteComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.116 · shared title, text, tags and references
  • Musique ConcrèteComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.106 · shared title, text, tags and references
  • UpicComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.087 · shared title, text, tags and references