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[microsound] use of loudspeakers during wartime



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"It was more than an emotional and psychological upheaval, living
through the war.  Everyone had recollections, images, experiences and
impressions involving different senses, but especially recollections of
extraordinary sounds heard during air-raids, sirens, explosions,
bombing.  A person suffering from shock is often more acutely disturbed
by sound than sight.  Several composers, among them Stockhausen, Berio,
Xenakis, report detailed accounts of aural phenomena which have remained
with them twenty years after the experience.  The war had accustomed
them to a sound world which had never seemed possible before and each
one had to adjust to it in his own way.  This assimilation took many
forms; it explains why, for instance, musique concrete was so quickly
accepted by this generation as a perfectly natural extension of the
sound continuum they had perceived, and secondly, the violence, anger
and horror of the war could be transformed into a music which was openly
aggressive, brutal and violent....  Boulez' earliest compositions bear
such directions as 'violent, abrupt, brutal, without expressive nuance.'
'I think that music should be collective spellbinding and hysteria,
violently real -- following the direction of Antonin Artaud.' was his
viewpoint just after the war."

Nouritza Matossian, _Xenakis_, 1986


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