"Collects Schaeffer's journals and other writings about his musique concrete, which he created by manipulating recorded sounds." Harper's "One of the postwar period's most significant (and readable) grapplings with new artistic paradigms." -- Rob Young Frieze "Completely changed how I hear the world and, after more than 30 years, I am still living with the consequences." -- John Dack The Wire "One striking impression that emerges from reading this book is that [Schaeffer's] work merits a perspective with greater nuance." Times Higher Education "Captures these uneven rhythms of intuition and perplexity, and his imagination and wit." Los Angeles Review Of Books "Recommended." -- J. Behrens, Wolf Museum of Music and Art Choice
