Luc Ferrari famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Sister #Artist #Creative
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 #Ideas #Sound
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

#Spring #Piano #Sound
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 #Paris #Born
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 #Play #Piano
I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.
-- Luc Ferrari

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

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

#Firsts #Concerts #Concrete
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

#Character #Thinking #Way
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

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

#Teacher #Piano #Dumb
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

#Play #Piano #Pieces

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