“Structures Sonores” is the concept of creating sculptures that can also be used as musical instruments. This concept was created and developed by the Baschet Brothers, two french artists and musicians at the start of the 1950’s. Francois Baschet was a sculptor and musician, his brother Bernard, was an engineer that made the design’s possible. Their concept of their work was to make sound, visual art and social implications intertwine in a single object. The Baschet brothers also performed with the instrument they created, making a performance that was at the same time sculptures, expanding the creative ranges of sound art performance.

In the following link there is an article and video published by 4:3, Boiler Room’s underground film platform. In the video we can see a collaboration performance between the Baschet brothers and the musician couple of Yvonne and Jaques Lasry, performing in one of their sculptures in french television. https://fourthree.boilerroom.tv/film/les-structures-sonores-lasry-baschet. The sculpture/instrument displayed in the video are made out of different tubes that create sound when they are rubbed, he uses water in his hand as a lubricant to create specific pitches and change the timbre of the sound (4:3, 2020) .

The video above is an extract of a documentary of the Baschet brothers, made in 2003 by Eric Marin. In this video the Baschet brothers explain how they were inspired to create the concept of structures sonores and how it is a counter exploration to electronic synthesis. They argue that electronic synthesis is not the only way to experiment and create sound, and that acoustic structures have the potential to create unimaginable sounds that can be comparable to those of electronic synthesis. It is really obvious the influence that the french sound art movement has on the Baschet brothers and how their ideology counters the german sound movement. The concept of musique concrete is deeply embedded on the Baschet brothers (Structures Sonores Baschet, 2017).