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Pierre Schaeffer

"The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic."

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Akshay Vasu

"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."

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Akshay Vasu

"With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing."

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Akshay Vasu

"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."

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Akshay Vasu

"I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created."

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Akshay Vasu

"Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective."

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Akshay Vasu

"I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village."

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Akshay Vasu

"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."

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Akshay Vasu

"I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him."

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Akshay Vasu

"Creed's sound is my sound."

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Pierre Schaeffer
"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change."

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Pierre Schaeffer
"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?"

Music

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Pierre Schaeffer
"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."

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Pierre Schaeffer
"The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward."

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Pierre Schaeffer
"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."

Music

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Pierre Schaeffer
"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."

Civilization

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Pierre Schaeffer
"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."

World

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Pierre Schaeffer
"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."

History

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

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Pierre Schaeffer
"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."

Time

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