Pierre Schaeffer: Sound

Pierre Schaeffer was French musicologist. Explore interesting quotes on sound.
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“Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.”

Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Schaeffer: an Interview with the Pioneer of Musique Concrete (Records Quarterly magazine, vol. 2, n° 1; 1987)
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“Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?”

Pierre Schaeffer

The Liberation of Sound: An Introduction to Electronic Music (Prentice-Hall edition, 1972)

“Music has to do with sounds, so we need to find them somewhere and it is preferred to find musical ones. You have two sources for sounds: noises, which always tell you something — a door cracking, a dog barking, the thunder, the storm; and then you have instruments. An instrument tells you, 'la-la-la-la.' Music has to find a passage between noises and instruments. It has to escape. It has to find a compromise and an evasion at the same time; something that would not be dramatic because that has no interest to us, but something that would be more interesting than sounds like Do-Re-Mi-Fa…”

Pierre Schaeffer

Electronic Musician magazine, December 1986
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