I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

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You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

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

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

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

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

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

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I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

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With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

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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.

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