Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
Luc Ferrari
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I had these ideas of interpretation that went way beyond the standard Conservatoire limits. So I was at war with my piano teachers.
Luc Ferrari
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I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.
Luc Ferrari
4
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
Luc Ferrari
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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
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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
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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.
Luc Ferrari
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I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.
Luc Ferrari
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My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
Luc Ferrari
10
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
11
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
Luc Ferrari
12
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.
Luc Ferrari
13
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
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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
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You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.
Luc Ferrari
