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

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

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

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

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.

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.