Luc Ferrari
Luc Ferrari
Luc Ferrariwas a French composer of Italian heritage...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth5 February 1929
CountryFrance
bit encounter exploded great ideas musical starting
No, the great musical encounter was with Cage, who exploded all those ideas which were already starting to get a bit institutionalised.
major musical players
When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.
turned
You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.
created events interested musical time
What interested me was looping the events in such a way that each time they reappeared, they created new musical objects. The idea of tautology.
concert goes university work
I was doing the university circuit-I do conferences on my work and if all goes well they give me a concert or two in the university.
play piano pieces
With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.
teacher piano dumb
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
technology thinking ideas
Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.
character thinking way
I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.
firsts concerts concrete
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
law guy lawyer
Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
machines problem
I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.
writing play piano
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
hate paris born
I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.