Quotes by Luc Ferrari

• Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
• 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.
• You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
• I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.
• My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.