Quotes by Luc Ferrari

28 quotes by Luc Ferrari

Luc Ferrari - french Composer

Life period: 1929-2005

After the War they started talking about contemporary musicians - I was 15 years old and followed the programmes passionately-the first things I heard by Webern and Schoenberg were about that time, just after the War.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about war, talking, old, olderness, things, time

Afterwards I went to Messiaen, in 1953, or something like that. I went just after Boulez and Stockhausen. Messiaen was inspiring when discussing other people's music, and he was unbearable when he talked about his own!

Quote by Luc Ferrari about music, people

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a...

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

Quote by Luc Ferrari about companies

Classical too - I've never stopped listening to it -...

Classical too - I've never stopped listening to it - Bach, Beethoven. Brahms and Schubert have never interested me, on the other hand.

Darmstadt was in ruins. It really disturbed me to see a...

Darmstadt was in ruins. It really disturbed me to see a country like that, demolished to such a degree. Terrifying.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about country

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.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about technology, music

I can still remember those four timpani strokes, and then that mishmash of voices scrambled by electronic devices, through which you could hear those surrealistic messages, like cadavres exquis! Wonderful sound memories.

I had a Nagra, one of the first portable machines. I started collecting sounds without any preconceived notions other than a desire to insert into musical discourse a sound that basically didn't belong there.

I had these ideas of interpretation that went way beyond...

I had these ideas of interpretation that went way beyond the standard Conservatoire limits. So I was at war with my piano teachers.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about limits, teachers, war

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about problems

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not...

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

Quote by Luc Ferrari about beginning

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into...

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.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about writing, people

I was a kid during the Second World War and even before...

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.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about parents, war, world

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until...

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

Quote by Luc Ferrari about haven, hate

I was doing the university circuit-I do conferences on my...

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.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about work

I was writing atonal music, noisy music, like Honegger -...

I was writing atonal music, noisy music, like Honegger - who I met too. I worked with him a bit and found him really depressive.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about music, writing

I'm starting to work with durations again, trying to organise them in a completely aleatoric way interms of the composition; it's all written out, but the compositional information is all generated by chance.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about chance, work

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and...

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

Quote by Luc Ferrari about poets, artists, world

No, the great musical encounter was with Cage, who...

No, the great musical encounter was with Cage, who exploded all those ideas which were already starting to get a bit institutionalised.

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.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about ideology, evolution, spring, use, life

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