Pierre Henry’s House of Sounds

First English edition. Pictorial paper-covered boards. With CD inside pocket affixed to rear paste-down No dust jacket as issued. 216pp. Slight pushing to corners. A near fine copy. *** Geir Egil Bergjord’s photographs of Pierre Henry’s House of Sounds in Paris. “The book, a seemingly endless flow of photos, moving room by room, from macro close-ups to overviews, is like a visit in the house…”. With a selection of texts by various authors. Pierre Henry (1927-2017) was a French composer, widely considered one of the pioneers of musique concrète – a form of electro-acoustic music that uses recorded sounds as raw material.