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.

More Quotes by Pierre Schaeffer

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

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.

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?

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.