Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician. His innovative work in both the sciences—particularly communications and acoustics—and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end of World War II, as well as his anti-nuclear activism and cultural criticism garnered him widespread recognition in his lifetime...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth14 August 1910
CountryFrance
Digital unleashed the potential of music. And the same thing is about to happen with digital photography.
We're unveiling the next innovations in consumer digital photography that will allow people to take, share and archive pictures in ways they never thought possible.
The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.
The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace.
In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
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.
The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
With every technology, once you get past the first chapter, you have an explosion of consumption.
We are just beginning to unleash the true potential of what digital photography can provide for consumers.
Bach lived in a moment of synthesis, in terms of the instruments, the theory - tempered scale, etc. - and was putting everything together.
Kodak continues to innovate to make the complex simple - delivering new technologies that enrich the consumer experience. Today we're unveiling the next innovations in consumer digital photography that will allow people to take, share and archive pictures in ways they never thought possible.
If you liked what happened in the first phase, wait until you see what the second phase will unveil.
By the end of the decade, more things (about) taking pictures will be connected than will not be.