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Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

~Pierre Schaeffer

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Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

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It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.

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I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.

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Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace.

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Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

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People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

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Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.

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Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

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First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Composer

Born: August 14th, 1910

Died: August 19th, 1995

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