Vinyl records

Jean-Jacques Perrey vinyl records

2 albums with 34 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Jean Marcel Leroy. Jean-Jacques Perrey (born 20 January 1929, Amiens, France - died 4 November, 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland) was a French electronic musician, composer and an early pioneer in the electronic music genre. He was studying medicine in Paris when he met , inventor of the Ondioline. Quitting medical school, Perrey travelled throughout Europe demonstrating this keyboard ancestor of the modern synth. At the age of 30, Perrey relocated to New York City, sponsored by , who built him an experimental laboratory and recording studio at 209 West 48th Street. Here he invented "a new process for generating rhythms with sequences and loops", utilising the environmental sounds of musique concrète.