Luc Ferrari was a famous Composer from France, who lived between February 5, 1929 and August 22, 2005. He/she became 76 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous.
Our collection contains 14 quotes who is written / told by Luc.
14 Famous quotes by Luc Ferrari
"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"
"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive"
"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s"
"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me"
"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural"
"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"
"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"
"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it"
"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer"
"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"
"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"
"You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things"
"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"
"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"
