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"But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm."
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"Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm."

"And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me."

"And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good."

"But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm."

"Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it."

"And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music."

"Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo."

"Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him."
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