Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer 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 activism and cultural criticism garnered him widespread recognition in his lifetime...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth14 August 1910
CountryFrance
Bach lived in a moment of synthesis, in terms of the instruments, the theory - tempered scale, etc. - and was putting everything together.
With every technology, once you get past the first chapter, you have an explosion of consumption.
The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
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.
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.
The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
We are just beginning to unleash the true potential of what digital photography can provide for consumers.
Digital unleashed the potential of music. And the same thing is about to happen with digital photography.
By the end of the decade, more things (about) taking pictures will be connected than will not be.
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.
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.
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 explained right there.
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.
Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.