Bases Quote by Edgard Varese

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

— Ennio Morricone

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry…

— Pierre Schaeffer

When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads…

— Bernard Parmegiani

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

— Joe Frazier

I really like the idea of music when it has form and then sort of loses its form, or becomes noise, and then comes…

— Kevin Huizenga

For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out…

— Annea Lockwood

The layering of sound is by no means a two-dimensional process. Even though I've been doing it for a number of years, the diversity…

— Jamie Lidell

“Whenever a noise exceeds our processing abilities—we can’t decipher all the different sound waves hitting our hair cells— the mind . . . stops…

— Brian Boyd

You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds;…

— Daphne Oram

I see music as fluid architecture.

— Joni Mitchell

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the…

— Dave Van Ronk

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by…

— Karlheinz Stockhausen