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"Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing."
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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

"The body is not a reliable friend."
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"Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him."

"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."

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

"No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular."

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

"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."

"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."

"Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public."

"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."
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