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The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
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.
The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
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.
People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.
People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.
I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different ... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.
Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.
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.
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?
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.
Sound is the vocabulary of nature ... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary ... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.
