Pierre Schaeffer Quotes

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• The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
• 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…
• The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music…
• 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…
• Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.
• 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…
• The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
• Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
• Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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 impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
• The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
• The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.
• 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…
• Shavalave likes biscots

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