Luc Ferrari
Luc Ferrari
Luc Ferrariwas a French composer of Italian heritage...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth5 February 1929
CountryFrance
spring piano tape
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.
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.