L’œuvre électronique
Luc Ferrari
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10-CD Boxset! Interview with Brunhild Meyer, biographical timeline, program notes, photos…
- Composer(s): Luc Ferrari, Brunhild Ferrari
- Author(s): Évelyne Gayou
- La Muse en circuit
10 × CD (INA_G 6017/26)
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Disc 1
- 1Étude aux accidents (Luc Ferrari) (1958), 2:13fixed medium
- 2Étude aux sons tendus (Luc Ferrari) (1958), 2:48fixed medium
- 3Étude floue (Luc Ferrari) (1958), 2:40fixed medium
- 4Échantillon pour mimes (Luc Ferrari) (1959), 3:36fixed medium
- 5Visage 5 (Luc Ferrari) (1958-59), 10:33fixed medium
- 6Tête et queue du dragon (Luc Ferrari) (1959-60), 9:13fixed medium
- 7Tautologos 1 (Luc Ferrari) (1961), 4:20fixed medium
- 8Tautologos 2 (Luc Ferrari) (1961), 14:53fixed medium
- 11Music Promenade (Luc Ferrari) (1964-69), 20:294 tape recorders
Disc 2
- 1Hétérozygote (Luc Ferrari) (1963-64), 26:19fixed medium
- 2J’ai été coupé (Luc Ferrari) (1969), 13:52fixed medium
- 3Petite symphonie intuitive pour un paysage de printemps (Luc Ferrari) (1973-74), 25:09fixed medium
Disc 3
- 1Presque rien no 1, le lever du jour au bord de la mer (Luc Ferrari) (1967-70), 21:11fixed medium
- 4fixed medium
- 7Presque rien avec filles (Luc Ferrari) (1989), 13:54fixed medium
- 9Presque rien no 4, la remontée du village (Luc Ferrari) (1990-98), 16:00fixed medium
Disc 4
- 1Danses organiques (Luc Ferrari) (1971-73), 50:35fixed medium
Disc 5
- 1Ouvert-fermé (Luc Ferrari) (1993), 8:11fixed medium
- 3Unheimlich Schön (Luc Ferrari) (1971), 15:40fixed medium
- 4Dérivatif (Brunhild Ferrari) (2005-08), 27:11fixed medium
Disc 6
- 1Dialogue ordinaire avec la machine ou trois fables pour bande doucement philosophiques (Luc Ferrari) (1984), 30:41fixed medium
- 6Strathoven (Luc Ferrari) (1985), 3:19fixed medium
- 7Capricorne (Luc Ferrari) (1958), 1:28voice, piano and fixed medium
- 8Chute libre (Luc Ferrari) (1958), 18:34fixed medium
Disc 7
- 1Far-West News 1: de Santa Fé à Monument Valley (Luc Ferrari) (1999), 29:35fixed medium
- 7Far-West News 2: de Page à Grand Canyon (Luc Ferrari) (1999), 29:45fixed medium
Disc 8
- 1Far-West News 3: de Prescott à Los Angeles (Luc Ferrari) (1999), 28:01fixed medium
- 7fixed medium
Disc 9
- 1Les Anecdotiques, exploitation des concepts no 6 (Luc Ferrari) (2001-02), 54:28fixed medium
Disc 10
- 1L’escalier des aveugles (Luc Ferrari) (1991), 34:20fixed medium
- 2Les Arythmiques (Luc Ferrari) (2003), 40:25fixed medium
- Label: Ina-GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales)
- INA_G 6017/26
- 2009
- UCC 3597494712122
- Total duration: 605:05
- 130 mm × 129 mm × 35 mm
- 360 g
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Notices
An Open Door into Luc Ferrari’s Electroacoustic Music
As a complement of the too short biography and his more intimate portrait, in the 2006 interview with Luc Ferrari’s wife, Brunhild Meyer, we felt it was important to explain more clearly the relationship Luc had with concrete sounds and electroacoustic composition techniques.
When he composed in the studio, Luc Ferrari simply put into practice the “do and hear” theory inherited from Pierre Schaeffer, back in the day when they had worked together at the GRM at the end of the fifties: record sounds, listen to the recording, change it by editing and some simple experiments, listen again, change, listen again, mix, and so on. Any new production started with several sound recordings, usually done outdoors with a tape recorder and a mike. He was not directive, when, for example, he passed on his knowledge during a training session or workshops. After a short technical introduction, he encouraged a collective effort around an initial general idea like, for example, Eros and Thanatos… and let the musical ideas come to light. During his sound reports, he tried to be the most receptive possible to the events he encountered, even directing himself by asking some passers-by questions. He was stimulated by all the sound sources he could find: Nature’s sounds, voices, classical instruments, and synthetic sounds. Then, while listening to the rushes in the studio and at all the other stages of composition, from editing to the final mix, he fine-tuned his understanding of the sound material in order to extract its “essence”.
He used to check out morphologies, spatial relationships and natural theatrical games between sound sources and arranged them like stories. The sounds were seen as characters with adventures. He was interested in the sound treatments inasmuch as they were able to reinforce the first impressions while listening or as a specific formal objective: to create a contrast or even a touch of humour with another sound or sequence, reinforce a movement, give extra depth to a fly-on-the-wall scene. He often worked with allegories: women laughing or speaking represented the eternal feminine, sheep baaing symbolised Nature that he loved so much or even the attitude of Panurgian sheep that men sometimes took. According to him, every technique was valid to reach this freedom of expression, so typical of his character, notwithstanding as wide a range of sounds possible. To do that, he integrated the different successive technical advances, from the VCR to the synthesizer to the computer.
Finally, all these accounts converge to remind us of his wonderful ability to mix sounds. He knew how to keep a sound sequence alive while losing the anecdotal side to it. He was able to bring us to the edge between the concrete and the abstract, between sounds with recognizable sources and sounds thereto unheard of, thereby giving us extra depth to those events.
It was in this form of art, which went hand in hand with the trends in vogue among artists in the sixties, situated somewhere between American Pop Art and French New Narrative Figuration, that Luc Ferrari constantly called for and perfected his electroacoustic repertoire; his piece Hétérozygote (1963-64), is considered a prototype of “anecdotal” musical works. However, he returned regularly to the most classical writing because he never followed any one style or method exclusively; the chronology of his repertoire is there to prove it.
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