Musique concrète et communication humaine

Pierre Schaeffer, Concrete Music and Human Communication Between spoken language and image perception, music represents a middle area which is particularly ambiguous but which has the quality of being concrete like an image and abstract like a text. All language phenomena (sounds, words, images j depend physically on an operational series that we analyze « scientifically » in terms of cause and effect. But the meaning of the message, linked to these physical supports, is to found through the contrary process, through a mechanism of the human spirit which fonctions against and indépendant of the pirysical series.Schaeffer Pierre. Musique concrète et communication humaine. In: L'Homme et la société, N. 126, 1997. Musique et société. pp. 115-132