It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.

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• Pierre Schaeffer:

  Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages,

• Pierre Schaeffer:

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

• Pierre Schaeffer:

  People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and em

• Pierre Schaeffer:

  Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

• Pierre Schaeffer:

  Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there

• Pierre Schaeffer:

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

• Pierre Schaeffer:

  The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme

• Pierre Schaeffer:

  The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in histo

• Pierre Schaeffer:

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

• Pierre Schaeffer:

  The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world