BTW, there are quite a few composers that have continued the French tradition of Musique Concrete will into the 21st century, most notably Pierre Henry, Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani and Francois Bayle.
Regarding the conclusion, some of the best works have been disowned by their creators at some point, so not to worry there.
PS a nice sort of anthropological/sociological inside view of the IRCAM at some specific time can be read in "Rationalizing culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde" by Georgina Born.
By the way, isn't it quite silly to say that electronic music " emerged in Cologne in 1950 at the NWDR"? As if we wouldn't have electronic music from 1000 different places if it weren't for them...
Suddenly I heard sirens, yells, and gunshots and thought something horrible had happened.
Turns out I left Scaeffer playing in another room.
Submitter has a karma score of 1 but there are, as of writing this, 37 points on this post and it's only 45 minutes old.
A similar pattern to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42348956 which has 39 points after 15 minutes, and karma score of 1 for the submitting user.
Is someone trying to manipulate the rankings? Either upwards by points, or downwards by penalty.