Pierre Schaeffer's Profile
Brief about Pierre Schaeffer: By info that we know Pierre Schaeffer was born at 1910-08-14. And also Pierre Schaeffer is French Composer.
Some Pierre Schaeffer's quotes. Goto "Pierre Schaeffer's quotation" section for more.Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
Tags: Nature, Sound, VocabularyBarbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
Tags: Barbarians, ThemselvesThe impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
Tags: Few, Forward, StepsHas 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?
Tags: Music, Sublime, WesternNoises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.
Tags: Generally, Thought, TrueThe only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
Tags: History, Hope, PointThe whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
Tags: Oneself, Problem, WholeThe world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
Tags: Change, Science, TechnologyThe world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.
Tags: DangerousFirst, 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.
Tags: Forgetting, Music, StartedI'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.
Tags: Both, Talking, TimeIn 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.
Tags: Last, Music, StageIt'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.
Tags: Again, Energy, TimeMorally, 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.
Tags: Both, Off, WorsePeople 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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