Musique Concrète

55 tracks by 43 artists, spanning 1944–2021 — every one chosen and shelved by a person, not a model. This page is the room’s musique concrète shelf, counted honestly.

2 of 55 tracks placed by a hand on the room’s four dials · 53 still waiting — a genre default, a placeholder, or a reading estimated from the record rather than taken from it

Across time

Heaviest in the 2000s — 21 of 55 dated tracks.

The biggest shelves

• Machinefabriek4 tracks
• Pierre Henry;Pierre Schaeffer3 tracks
• Bernard Parmegiani2 tracks
• François Bayle2 tracks
• John Cage2 tracks
• Karlheinz Stockhausen2 tracks
• Otto Luening2 tracks
• Ralph Lundsten2 tracks
• Tod Dockstader2 tracks
• Aaron Dilloway;Lucrecia Dalt1 track
• Aaron Martin;Machinefabriek1 track
• Akio Suzuki1 track
• Andrea Parker1 track
• Blixa Bargeld;Opening Performance Orchestra1 track
• Brian Hodgson1 track
• Daphne Oram1 track
• Delia Derbyshire1 track
• Edgard Varèse;Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra;Christopher Lyndon-Gee1 track
• György Ligeti;Justin Taylor1 track
• György Ligeti;London Sinfonietta;David Atherton1 track
• György Ligeti;Pierre Charial1 track
• György Ligeti;Pierre-Laurent Aimard;Asko Ensemble;Reinbert de Leeuw1 track
• György Ligeti;Reinbert de Leeuw;Schönberg Ensemble1 track
• György Ligeti;Wiener Philharmoniker;Claudio Abbado1 track

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hand-curated by zubair jeewanjee · no algorithm

Counts computed from the room’s own catalogue on 2026-10-06. Tracks that arrived carrying this genre’s default settings are counted here but held out of the room’s maps until somebody listens — a placeholder is not a placement. — Zubair Jeewanjee · zubair.jeewanjee@gmail.com