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The composer Pierre Henry at work in a studio in 1950. He used tape recorders and other equipment to alter sounds.
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Pierre Henry
Died on July 6, 2017 at age 89
Pierre Henry was a composer whose experiments with electronically manipulated sound helped create the style known as musique concrète and anticipated the innovations of techno.
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