Luc Ferrari Quotes

"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
(Related: Life, Development, Ideology, Sound, Spring)

"You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things."
- 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
(Related: Control, Play)

"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
(Related: Idea, Character)

"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
(Related: Music, Time, Work, Composers, Old)

"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."
- Luc Ferrari
(Related: Dumb, First, Teachers)

"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
(Related: Music, Technology, Ideas)

"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it."
- Luc Ferrari
(Related: Hate, Now, Paris)

"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
(Related: People, Play, Writing)

"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
(Related: Music, Character)

"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
- Luc Ferrari
(Related: Beginning, First)

"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural."
- Luc Ferrari
(Related: Machines, Problems)

"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."
- Luc Ferrari
(Related: Artists, Poets, Sisters, World)