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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 17 quotes by Pierre Schaeffer Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: i/piːˈɛər ˈhɛnriː məˈriː ˈʃeɪfər/, French pronunciation: [ʃɛfɛʁ]; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician. His innovative work in both the sciences—particularly communications and acoustics—and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end of World War II, as well as his anti-nuclear... Read full biography of Pierre Schaeffer → 1 2 Ctrl → Sound is the vocabulary of nature. 0 The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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? 0 Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. 0 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... → 0 The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change. 0 First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many... → 0 In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last... → 0 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... → 0 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 is... → 0 The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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