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
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?
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
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.