Ferrari, Luc (1929-2005)
Luc Ferrari along with Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, François Bayle, and others -- is one of the pioneers of the particular style of tape music known as 'musique concrète'. More significantly, he must be counted as one of the most complexly, most idiosyncratically compelling of post-War composers. Ferrari has time and again ranged far afield of musique concrète, and Interrupteur/Tautologos 3 is one such foray into instrumental music.
Luc Ferrari is a remarkable electronic music pioneer. As director of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales from 1959 to 1960, he worked closely with Pierre Schaeffer, who coined the term "musique concrète".
One of Schaeffer's ideas was that a sound should be characterized by its morphology, by which he meant that a sound should be characterized by the way its structure changed in time, as something "abstract" and independent of any reference to the real world. Schaeffer's Traité des Objets Musicaux (Treatise on Musical Objects), published in 1966, included a taxonomy of sounds that Schaeffer called a "Solfège", a term that suggested a scale of sounds rather than notes. When Ferrari worked with the Groupe de Recherche Musicale, he assimilated the basic ideas and concepts of musique concrète.
In the 1960s, however, he began to move in a different direction. Hétérozygote, a tape piece he finished in 1964, was the first composition that he referred to as "anecdotal music", by which he meant music that tells a story.
Luc Ferrari died of pneumonia in Arezzo, Italy, in August 2005.
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Ferrari - Interview by Dan Warburton
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[10] · Piano minimal #2 inspired by quaggy [13:06]
[09] · Piano minimal #1 [04:46]
[08] · Train Sonor: Piano NYC Subway #4 [10:17]
[07] · Cluster medicine [pianodrone #2] [18:54]
[06] · Flute stream [09:54]
[05] · Supernatural drone [guitardrone reverse] [17:02]
[04] · Piano minimal #3 [simultaneous] [08:50]
[03] · For Marjan K. [excerpt three] [05:44]
[02] · For Marjan K. [excerpt two] [05:40]
[01] · For Marjan K. [excerpt one] [06:21]
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