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The 43 pages that link to Musique concrète, each with the reason it gives.

• Sampling (music)Related: It established editing and rearranging recordings as compositional techniques.

• Electronic musicRelated: Its studio-based methods established recording itself as compositional material.

• Free jazzRelated: Its expanded idea of musical sound parallels free jazz’s challenge to conventional instrumental tone.

• TurntablismRelated: It offers a distinct tradition of treating recorded sound as compositional material.

• Ambient musicRelated: Its use of recorded sound helped establish techniques later adopted in ambient composition.

• Tape loopNarrower topic: Tape loops let composers reshape everyday recordings into structured musical material.

• Aleatoric musicCompared with: It shared the postwar avant-garde’s experimental setting but centered sound recording rather than chance.

• Pierre SchaefferBroader topic: Schaeffer’s central invention gave recorded sounds a role independent of their original sources.

• Sound artRelated: It is a close historical neighbor where sound art meets experimental composition.

• Ennio MorriconeRelated: His scores sometimes treated whistles, bells, gunshots, and other sounds as musical material.

• SoundscapeCompared with: It transforms environmental sounds into works, rather than describing an environment as experienced.

• Avant-garde musicBroader topic: It makes recorded environmental and instrumental sounds compositional material.

• Contemporary classical musicRelated: It helped establish recorded sound itself as compositional material.

• Sound collageRelated: This early French movement established recorded sound as compositional material.

• TropicáliaRelated: Its studio techniques helped make sound collage part of Tropicália’s musical vocabulary.

• Experimental musicBroader topic: It treats environmental and recorded sounds as compositional material.

• Musical quotationRelated: Its use of found recordings offers a close, sound-based counterpart to musical quotation.

• KraftwerkNarrower topic: Kraftwerk's studio-based approach belongs to a broader tradition of composing with sound.

• ExoticaCompared with: Exotica usually suggests live ensembles, yet its atmosphere also depends on treating the studio as a sound-design tool.

• Industrial musicRelated: Its use of manipulated recordings helped establish sound itself as musical material.

• KrautrockRelated: Some groups brought tape-based sound experimentation into rock arrangements.

• Musical modernismBroader topic: It extends modernist experimentation from instrumental sounds to recorded environmental material.

• Spectral musicCompared with: Both approaches begin with sound, but spectral music commonly translates acoustic analysis into instrumental composition.

• Jonny GreenwoodRelated: Greenwood has used found sounds and electronic manipulation in both band arrangements and film scores.

• Noise musicRelated: It showed how non-instrumental sounds could serve as compositional material.

• SmileRelated: Smile’s sound collages drew on studio practices associated with musique concrète.

• Studio as an instrumentRelated: It makes explicit a compositional logic that studio-based popular music often applies within songs.

• 4′33″Compared with: It uses environmental sound as musical material through recording and composition, unlike Cage’s live, unselected sounds.

• Frank ZappaRelated: Its tape-based sound collage techniques informed Zappa’s studio experiments.

• Pink FloydRelated: The band used environmental recordings and sound collage to expand rock arrangements.

• Tōru TakemitsuRelated: Takemitsu’s early experiments with recorded sound helped shape his modernist language.

• Art rockRelated: Its use of recorded sound offered art rock a model for treating noise as musical material.

• Luciano BerioRelated: Berio’s early studio work engaged with the sound-manipulation practices that shaped postwar electronic composition.

• Psychedelic musicNarrower topic: Its sound-based approach supplied techniques for reshaping everyday noises into psychedelic textures.

• A Day in the LifeRelated: The song’s alarm clock and orchestral sound effects turn recorded noise into structure.

• RevolverNarrower topic: The album’s tape-loop experiments connect pop production to this sound-based compositional tradition.

• Iannis XenakisCompared with: Xenakis worked at the same Paris studio but favored mathematical composition and generated sound masses.

• Delia DerbyshireRelated: Its sound-first approach informed the Workshop’s experiments with recorded materials.

• Jean-Michel JarreRelated: Jarre studied this tradition, which helps explain his use of sound as material beyond conventional instruments.

• MerzbowCompared with: Its emphasis on concrete recorded sources contrasts with Merzbow’s often overwhelming electronic textures.

• Morton FeldmanCompared with: Its focus on manipulated recordings contrasts with Feldman’s primarily instrumental, live-performance works.

• 20th-century classical musicBroader topic: It established recorded environmental sound as material for composition.

• Neue MusikRelated: It extended compositional material beyond notes played on conventional instruments.