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About GRM Tools
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GRM Tools is the result of more than 50 years of cutting-edge research and experimentation in Paris, France. In 1948, Pierre Schaeffer coined the term 'musique concrète' to mean music made with recorded sounds. The photo at the left shows Schaeffer with the 'phonogène', a variable-speed tape recorder, in 1952. The Groupe de Recherches Musicales de l'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (GRM) was formed in 1958 by Schaeffer, François Bayle, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari, and others to continue Schaeffer's research in working with recorded sounds. GRM Tools was realized by a succession of hardware and software engineers, among them Jean-François Allouis, who developed the Syter sound-processing system in the 1970s, and Hugues Vinet, who created the original software design and formulated the algorithms for GRM Tools in the 1980s. The current GRM Tools engineer is Emmanuel Favreau. INA-GRM Daniel Teruggi Composer and Director of Research, INA "GRM Tools comes out of the history of musique concrète and a long line of discovery and invention. It was designed by composers for use by musicians. I use it myself in my own work and I'd say that GRM Tools, without doubt, is one of the most creative approaches available today for making sounds." Emmanuel Favreau Software Engineer, GRM "Our goal was to go beyond conventional techniques to let people make original and astonishing sounds. We worked with musicians to invent new interface devices, like the 2DController, Elastic String, and SuperSlider, which make GRM Tools all the more powerful and easy to use." |
