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"When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them."
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"Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology."

"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."

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"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."
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