The Genesis of Acousmatic Music – Espaces Inhabitables by François Bayle

Abstract

The article examines some fundamental characteristics of acousmatic music, referring to the statements of one of its major composers, François Bayle. A further aspect that is examined concerns the transition between the experience of musique concrète and the birth of acousmatic music. For this topic, the composition Espaces Inhabitables (1967) by François Bayle is examined, which in some ways represents the birth of acousmatic music, breaking away from certain structural and discursive typologies of musique concrète. Further considerations regarding the constituent elements of this work and the birth of acousmatic music are developed.