Erato
Catalogue No: STU 71238
M-M-
Original 1981 French pressing in near-mint condition.
Constant was born in Bucharest, Romania, and studied piano and composition at the Bucharest Conservatory, receiving the George Enescu Award in 1944. In 1946, he moved to Paris, studying at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen, Tony Aubin, Arthur Honegger and Nadia Boulanger. His compositions earned several prizes. From 1950 on, he was increasingly involved with electronic music and joined Pierre Schaeffer's Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète.
Stress - Psyché - Trois Complexes is a collection of live performances recorded in 1979 at the Église Notre-Dame du Diban in Paris and the Centre Culturel in Créteil. The first piece, Stress, was created in collaboration with Algerian jazz-viruoso Martial Solal.
