(Jean-Jacques Perrey (1929 - 2016) was a French electronic musician, composer and an
early pioneer in the electronic music genre.
He was studying medicine in Paris when he met Georges Jenny,
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
Carroll Bratman,
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. With scissors, splicing tape and tape recorders, he
spent weeks piecing together a uniquely comic take on the future.
Befriending Robert Moog, he became one of the first Moog musicians, creating "far out electronic entertainment".
In 1965 Perrey met Gershon Kingsley, a former collaborator of John Cage. Together, using an Ondioline and Perrey's loops, they created two albums for Vanguard: Perrey - Kingsley - The In Sound From Way Out! (1966) and Perrey & Kingsley - Kaleidoscopic Vibrations (1967). Perrey & Kingsley also collaborated on sound design for radio and television advertising.
Perrey returned to France, composing for television, scoring for
ballet and continuing medical research into therapeutic sounds for
insomniacs. Finally, died at 4th November,
2016 in Switzerland at 87).
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