Luc Ferrari Quotes

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

Music, Technology, Through

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
Luc Ferrari

Guy, Company, Lawyer

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.
Luc Ferrari

Problems, Machines

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
Luc Ferrari

Beginning, Though, Concerts

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

Writing, Enough, Play

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.
Luc Ferrari

Hate, Live, Until

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
Luc Ferrari

Creative, Artists, Sisters

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
Luc Ferrari

Though, Dumb, Satisfied

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.
Luc Ferrari

Heard, Kinds, Radio

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

Music, Amazing, Character

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

Life, Spring, Longer

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

Music, Work, Time

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

Character, Working, Idea

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

Control, Play, Impossible

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: February 5, 1929

Died: August 22, 2005

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