Luc Ferrari
Luc Ferrari
Luc Ferrariwas a French composer of Italian heritage...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth5 February 1929
CountryFrance
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
sister artist creative
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
law guy lawyer
Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
teacher piano dumb
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
turned
You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.
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.
firsts concerts concrete
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
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.