French - Composer | August 14, 1910 - August 19, 1995
Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
Pierre Schaeffer
NatureSoundVocabulary
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.
TimeEnergyCloudDangerousNeedUs
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
ChangeTechnologyScienceWorld
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
HopeHistoryCivilizationWillOut
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?
MusicYouCivilizationMostSublime
In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
MusicSoundConcreteStageContrast
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.
DoorPerceptionProcessSoundViolin
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
ThinkCivilizationAlwaysThemselves
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.
MusicMeSurpriseMusiciansLook
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.
TimeDoingTalkingYouAfricaRadio
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.
WorldBetterMiddleOffWorseThan
Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.
ThoughtTrueBeenNoisesGenerally
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