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Pierre Schaeffer sound engineer, composer.
Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (RTF) Paris
Founded Studio d'Essai in 1943
(later GRM: Groupe de Recherches Musicales)

Retain the living characteristics of the original sound. distinguish an element (hear it in itself, for its texture, its matter, its color).repeat it. Repeat the same sound fragment two times: There is no longer event, there is music.material classification of sound objects.

role of the composer: to extract sound objects from the real world and then systematically classify the objects to contruct new sound worlds for musical composition new sound worlds for musical composition.
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