Composer, writer, electronic engineer, administrator Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995) was the inventor of musique concrete created by combining and manipulating recorded sounds (rather than being played on conventional musical instruments). Christine North studied French at Oxford University and subsequently became a Senior Lecturer in French at Middlesex University before working currently as a translator of French poetry and academic texts. John Dack is Senior Lecturer in Music and Technology. He works at the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries and the Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, London, UK.
[Christine North and John Dack's] English translation is as effective as Schaeffer's text, which in turn exercises its full correlative power to English readers to the extent that the translators have rendered it. * Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal *