Daily Inspiration Quote by Luc Ferrari

Ferrari’s offhand “I probably went” is doing more work than a neat date stamp. It’s a composer declining the heroic origin story. In a field that loves clean genealogies and founding moments, he offers a shrug: memory is porous, scenes are messy, and avant-garde credentials are always a little improvised. The parenthetical “though not the very first ones” reads like a pre-emptive footnote to the gatekeepers, conceding the sacred timeline while quietly refusing to worship it.

The phrase “musique concrete concerts” also carries its own irony. Musique concrete was born from tape, broadcast studios, spliced sound, and the suspicion that “concert” might be an outdated ritual. Calling them concerts highlights the period’s tension: radical materials forced into old social formats, audiences sitting politely while loudspeakers performed the real act. Ferrari’s remark places him at the threshold where listening habits were being re-trained, when everyday noise was being promoted from background to subject.

“Beginning of the 50s” locates the statement in postwar Europe’s laboratory mood, with institutions (and budgets) eager to rebuild culture through innovation. Ferrari positions himself not as an inventor but as an early witness, absorbing the scene before he helped reshape it. The intent is modest on the surface; the subtext is strategic: authenticity comes from proximity, not primacy. He’s claiming membership in a revolution without pretending he led the parade.