Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

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

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.