Composer Pierre Henry’s home studio in Paris has been sold. Until recently, the walls were still covered with musique concrète assemblage sculptures and post-cubist bas-reliefs of printed circuit boards.

Isabelle Warnier, the widow of famed musique concrète (“concrete music”) composer Pierre Henry, revealed in an interview with Olivier Lamm for the October 30 edition of Libération, the fate of the Henry home studio at 32 Rue de Toul. Until recently, Warnier recounts, the walls were still covered with Henry’s musique concrète assemblage sculptures and post-cubist bas-reliefs of printed circuit boards and bolts removed from his old machines. I had the privilege of visiting for a concert in 2014 (three years before Henry’s death on July 5, 2017) and inspecting the art-filled space. But the walls are now naked. The network of speakers that had been intricately placed on the different floors of the small house to distribute Henry’s sound montages has been stripped away.

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