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Re: [tuning] Pierre Schaeffer interview

🔗Daniel Wolf <djwolf@snafu.de>

5/7/2000 11:54:57 AM

> The interview really gets off with quite a bang(!), as Schaeffer
> grimly ends his very first response with, "seeing that no one knew
> what to do anymore with DoReMi, maybe we had to look outside that...
> Unfortunately it took me forty years to conclude that nothing is
> possible outside DoReMi... In other words, I wasted my life."
>
> Dan
>

At dinner once in Middletown, Ct., the audio artist Doug Kahn repeated this
quote to John Cage. Mr. C., without missing a beat, replied that Schaeffer
"should have tried continuing further on up the scale."