Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

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.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

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