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Type: Composer Quotes Category: French Composer Quotes Date of Birth: February 5, 1929 Date of Death: August 22, 2005 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Luc Ferrari Related Authors: Claude Debussy Pierre Schaeffer Maurice Jarre Maurice Ravel Hector Berlioz Michel Legrand Georges Bizet |
Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
Luc Ferrari 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. Luc Ferrari I had these ideas of interpretation that went way beyond the standard Conservatoire limits. So I was at war with my piano teachers. Luc Ferrari I have problems with machines which aren't gestural. Luc Ferrari I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s. Luc Ferrari 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. Luc Ferrari 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. Luc Ferrari I was a kid during the Second World War and even before that my parents had one of the first radio sets, and there was Radio London. Luc Ferrari I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it. Luc Ferrari 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. Luc Ferrari My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. Luc Ferrari No, the great musical encounter was with Cage, who exploded all those ideas which were already starting to get a bit institutionalised. Luc Ferrari 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. Luc Ferrari Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive. Luc Ferrari 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. Luc Ferrari 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. Luc Ferrari Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character. Luc Ferrari 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. Luc Ferrari You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things. Luc Ferrari |
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