Quotes by Luc Ferrari, page 2

Luc Ferrari - french Composer

Life period: 1929-2005

Stockhausen was a great guy, very rich in terms of musical imagination, all the different aspects of sound creation rolled into one extraordinary intuition. With a strict intention to be serial, but serial in an explosive way.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about intention, intuition, creation, wealth, imagination

Then I was at Darmstadt from 1954 onwards, and it was great. My first pieces were played straightaway. It was there that I met everybody who made up that generation that redefined post-War music.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about war, music

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

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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.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about objects, events, idea, time

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.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about music, old, olderness, 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.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about character, 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.

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

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