Luc Ferrari

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Luc Ferrari in the 1990s

Luc Ferrari (born February 5, 1929 in Paris , † August 22, 2005 in Arezzo ) was a French composer , sound artist and radio play maker . Ferrari is considered a representative of musique concrète and was best known for his experiments with tape music.

Life

Ferrari studied from 1946, first at the Conservatoire de Versailles , from 1948 until he contracted tuberculosis in 1950 at the École Normale de Musique in Paris with Alfred Cortot (piano) and Arthur Honegger (composition). In the spring of 1953 he visited Edgar Varèse in New York , whose composition Déserts had impressed him on the radio. The following winter he took music analysis courses with Olivier Messiaen . From 1954 to 1958 he took part in the Darmstadt summer courses , where he met Karlheinz Stockhausen , Luigi Nono , Bruno Maderna , Henri Pousseur and John Cage .

In 1958 he founded the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) with Pierre Schaeffer and François-Bernard Mâche . However, different artistic conceptions led to the separation in 1966: While Schaeffer demanded abstract and typifying sound work, Ferrari included recognizable environmental noises in his music ( musique anecdotique ).

1964/65 and 1970 he taught at the Musikhochschule in Cologne , 1966 to 1967 in Stockholm and 1978 to 1980 at the Conservatoire de Pantin . In between he was the musical director of the Maison de la Culture in Amiens from 1968 to 1969 , where he wanted to encourage young people to do musical work with tape recorders.

For the Service de la Recherche of the ORTF Luc Ferrari 1965-66 with Gérard Patris realized a series of portrait films Les grand Répétitions (The large samples) on the composer Messiaen, Stockhausen and Varèse, and the conductor Hermann Scherchen and jazz pianist Cecil Taylor . Many of these representatives of contemporary music were seen here for the first time on French television.

In 1972 he founded his own studio Billig and in 1982, with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, the studio of the association La Muse en Circuit , from which he separated in 1994. In the same year he set up a new studio Atelier post-cheap in Montreuil , which he then relocated to Paris.

Luc Ferrari was married to Brunhild Meyer, a daughter of the clarinetist and composer Wolfgang Meyer-Tormin , who worked in Aachen .

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In the 1950s, Ferrari initially wrote piano pieces in succession to Bartók and Hindemith. At the same time he began to attend musique concrète concerts . After joining the Groupe de recherches musicales , Ferrari initially produced five electroacoustic compositions in accordance with Schaeffer's sound aesthetics, abstracting the underlying recorded sounds as far as possible from their original context. With Hétérozygote (1963/64), a composition that was initially conceived for four-channel tape, but was ultimately worked out and realized stereophonically, Ferrari broke away from Schaeffer's concept of musique concrète and contrasted it with his own musique anecdotique , in which natural noises in one "Organized and poetic, but not in an action-oriented manner" are structured. The compositional work of these soundscapes remains based on musical principles and thus clearly separated from the radio play.

One of the most famous works by Ferrari is the composition Presque rien No. 1 “Lever du jour au bord de la mer” (1967/70), in which recordings of a Yugoslav beach that were made over a period of one day were cut into a 21-minute short audio piece. He used the then new stereo technology for the first time, which not only allowed him to “right-left” the sounds, but also created a sense of depth. In his third Presque rien composition, Presque rien avec filles (1989), he found a balanced relationship between his musique anecdotique and the musique concrète, which thinks more in terms of traditional forms .

In addition to his tape music, Ferrari also composed for conventional instruments and mixed the genres with each other (for example Ce qu'a vu le Cers ). The concert tours and collaborations with younger musicians, such as Otomo Yoshihide and Noël Akchoté , increased, and the line to freely improvised music was also crossed.

Discography from 1990

  • Acousmatrix
Petite Symphonie Intuitive pour un Paysage de Printemps (1973-74)
Strathoven (1985)
Presque Rien avec filles (1989)
Hétérozygote (1963-64)
BVHaast 9009 Acousmatrix 3 - 1990
  • Incredibly beautiful
Scary Beautiful (1971)
Coll. Cinema pour l'oreille
Metamkine MKCD008 1993
  • L'Escalier des aveugles
Patajaslotcha (1984)
L'Escalier des Aveugles (1991)
Xavier Legasa / Donatienne Michel-Dansac / Michel Musseau (song)
Ensemble Le Banquet, cond. Olivier Dejours
Musidisc 201302-1993
  • Presque Rien
Music Promenade (1964-69)
Presque Rien N ° 1 - le lever du jour au bord de la mer (1967-70)
Presque Rien N ° 2 - ainsi continue la nuit dans ma tête multiple (1977)
Presque Rien avec filles (1989)
Musidisc 245172 - 1995
  • Piano-piano
Suite pour piano (1952)
Antisonate (1953)
Suite Hétéroclite (1955)
Visage I (1956)
Fragments du Journal Intime (1980-82)
Comme une Fantaisie dite des Réminiscences (1989–91)
Christine Lagniel / Michel Maurer (piano)
Auvidis Montaigne MO 782110-1997
  • Cellule 75
Cellule 75 (1975)
Place des Abbesses (1977)
Chris Brown (piano), William Winant (perc.)
Tzadik USA - TZ 7033 - 1997
  • Interrupteur / Tautologos III
Interrupteur (1967)
Tautologos III (1970)
Ensemble de Musique Contemporaine de Paris, conducted by Konstantin Simonovitch
Blue Chopsticks USA BC1, distrib. France: Chronowax - 1999
  • Chansons pour le corps - Et si tout entière maintenant
Chansons pour le corps
Élise Caron (vocals), Carol Mundinger / Sylvain Frydman (clar.), Christine Lagniel (drums), Michel Maurer (piano), Michel Musseau (synthesizer)
Et si tout entière maintenant (1986-87)
Symphonic narrative. (Prix Italia 1987) - Text by Colette Fellous
Anne Sée (voice), Nouvel Orchester Philharmonique, led by Yves Prin.
MODE records USA MODE 81 - 1999
  • Danses Organiques cinema pour l'oreille
Danses organiques (1971-73)
ELICA mpo-3340 - 1999
en vinyle LP ELICA 4VL 3704 - 2003
  • Far West News
Far-West News Episode N ° 1 (1998-99)
Histoire du Plaisir et de la Désolation (1979-81)
Nouvel Orchester de France, cond. Michael Luig.
Signature, France - distribution Harmonia Mundi - 1999
  • Cycle des Souvenirs - Exploitation des Concepts N ° 2
Cycle des souvenirs - Exploitation des Concepts N ° 2 (1995-2000)
Blue Chopsticks USA BC8, distrib. France: Chronowax - 2002
  • Tautologos and other early electronic works
Etude aux Accidents (1958)
Étude aux Sons Tendus (1958)
Visage V (1958/59)
Tête et Queue du Dragon (1959-60)
Tautologos I (1961)
Tautologos II (1961)
And so on pour piano et bande magnétique (1965-66)
(works from 1959 à 1966) EMF and GRM
Gérard Frémy (piano)
EMF CD 037 - 2003
  • Impro-Micro-Acoustique (2001)
Performers and composers: Noël Akchoté, Roland Auzet, Luc Ferrari
Blue Chopsticks, USA BC12 - distrib. France: Chronowax - 2004
  • Collection
Collection de Petites Pièces ou 36 Enfilades pour piano et magnétophone (1985)
Jeu du Hasard et de la Détermination (1999)
Michel Maurer (Piano.), Françoise Rivalland (Perc.).
Les Empreintes digitales, France - distribution Abeille Musique (Nocturne) ED13171 - 2004
  • Les anecdotiques
Les Anecdotiques - Exploitation des Concepts N ° 6 (2002)
Sub Rosa SR 207 - 2004
Grand Prix 2005 Charles Cros in Memoriam
  • Archives sauvées des Eaux
Archives sauvées des Eaux - Exploitation des Concepts N ° 1 (2000)
Version for Plastic, Milan 2004. Luc Ferrari and eRikm
ANGLE RECORDS LIMITED, Italie CD 0008 - 2004
Grand Prix 2005 Charles Cros in Memoriam
  • Son mémorisé
Presque Rien N ° 4 (1990-98)
Promenade Symphonique dans un Paysage Musical or Un jour de fête à El Oued in 1976 (1976-78)
Saliceburry Cocktail (2002)
Sub Rosa, Belgique SR252 2006
  • Far-West News Episodes 2 and 3
Far West News Episode 2 (May 1999)
Far West News Episode 3 (Juin 1999)
Blue Chopsticks BC16 CD September 2006
  • Et tournent les sons
Et tournent les Sons dans la Garrigue - Réflexion sur l'Ecriture N ° 1 (1977)
Archives sauvées des Eaux - Exploitation des Concepts N ° 3 (2000)
Par l'ensemble Laborintus et eRikm
Césaré 06/03/4/2/1 France September 2006. Distr. Metamkine
  • Les ProtoRythmiques
Les ProtoRythmiques (2007)
eRikm (Luc Ferrari) & Thomas Lehn
CD ROOM40 RM417 / May 2007
  • Didascalies
Rencontres Fortuites (2003) For viola, piano and fixed sounds
Didascalies (2004) For viola, piano
Tautologos III (1969)
Vincent Royer, viola and Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, piano
DVD: Luc Ferrari facing his Tautology - 2 days before the end , film by Guy Marc Hinant and Dominique Lohlé
SR261 luc ferrari "didascalies" / cd + dvd / may 2007
  • Sonopsys
Passage pour Mimes (1959)
J'ai été coupé (1960–69)
Self-portrait or Peinture de Sons ou bien Tonmalerei (1996–97)
Sonopsys 4 - Cahiers Musique Concrète / Acousmatique. May 2007
  • in OHM: Early Gurus of Electronic Music / 1943-1980
Ellipsis arts …… EA500-4 USA
  • in Asia - Trio d'Argent
Madame de Shanghai (1996)
Michel Boizot / François Daudin Clavaud / Xavier Saint-Bonnet (flutes)
Musique d'Aujourd'hui 9701 MDA M7 847 - 1997
  • in An anthology of noise & electronic music / vol. # 2
Visage V (1958-59)
Sub Rosa SR200 - 2003
  • in Early Modulations: Vintage Volts
Tête et Queue du Dragon (1959-60)
Caipirinha CP219 USA - 2000
  • in Archives GRM - CD 2/5
Etude aux Sons Tendus (1958)
Etude floue (1958)
Etude aux Accidents (1958)
Ina c 1032 (2004) ADD - 750 - 276522
  • Chantal or Portrait of a Villager (1977-78)
stereo audio tape.
In collaboration with Brunhild Meyer.
digital on-line 2008
ROOM 40
  • Archives Génétiquement Modifiées (2000) - SM
  • Société II (1967)
Robot Records, USA
  • A la Recherche du Rythme Perdu
For piano and stored tone. Piano: Wilhem Latchoumia
In Wilhem Latchoumia - piano & electronic sounds
Sisyphe013
  • Madame de Shanghai (1996)
for 3 flutes and stored tone
In Manuel Zurria repeat!
Box, time C01
  • Archives sauvées des Eaux - Luc Ferrari with Otomo Yoshihide.
Bonus track (CD Extra) for the first 2000 copies: "Slow Landing" Luc Ferrari with Otomo Yoshihide, camera: Miyaoka Hideyuki and Nishihara Tazz
Disc Callithump CPCD-001
  • Labyrinths de Violence
Danse
LP at ALGA MARGHEN
vinyle disc PLANA-F alga027 - 2009
  • Sexolidad (1982-83)
  • Dialogue Ordinaire avec la Machine (1984)
Elica MPO-4301 - 2009
  • Collection box INA-GRM (2009)
in partnership with La Muse en Circuit.
10 CD Luc Ferrari's works for stored sound and film music
  • Madame de Shanghai (1996)
for 3 flutes and stored tone
in radio play avec… 8th International Competition for Radio Art "MADAME DE SHANGHAI Luc Ferrari"
Muse 9/1/1 - 2009
  • Didascalies 2 or Trois Personnages en Quête de Notes (2005)
"for two pianos and a third instrument capable of sustaining a very loud note"
Claude Berset and Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven: piano. Vincent Royer: Viola.
Recording of the dress rehearsal and the concert in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
vinyl disc Sub Rosa SRV 305 - April 2010
  • Tranquilles Impatiences - (Calm Impatience) (2010)
by Brunhild Ferrari. Composition using tapes by Luc Ferrari.
vinyl disc Alga Marghen plan-MF alga028 - 2010
  • Ephémère I & II (1974)
for tape and any instruments
Ephémère I - "What is the computer for?" (Nov 1974)
Ephémère II - "Lyon 75" (Nov. 1975)
Alga Marghen plana f. 33 NMN 081 - 2010
  • Exercices d'Improvisation (1977)
"Series of 5 to 7 studies dedicated to individual or collective improvisation for any instrument or instrumental group (up to 8)."
for amateur, professional musicians or music students. Can be programmed as a concert piece.
Executed by: Gol and Brunhild Ferrari
vinyl disc Alga Marghen planam 5 (it) - 2010
  • Now or probably this is my everyday life, in the confusion of places and moments
Radio play - first recording with source material (1982)
"Ferrari (r) écouté". New compositions from JETZT material by Tiziana Bertoncini, Antje Vowinckel , Frank Niehusmann, David Fenech, Neele Hülcker (2011)
"Composer la radio - composing the radio" (2000)
WERGO WER 2066 2, ZK III milestones - 2012

CD & DVD

  • Luc Ferrari face à sa tautologie - 2 jours avant la fin
Film by Guy-Marc Hinant and Dominique Lohlé
French version with English subtitles. Recorded during the rehearsal of Tautologos III. Sub Rosa SR261 luc ferrari "didascalies" / cd + dvd / may 2007. This collection box received the Coup de Coeur Charles Cros - musique contemporaine printemps 2008 and the Grand prix du festival 'Filmer à tout prix´ , in Brussels 2008
  • Presque rien avec Luc Ferrari - 2004 -
Film by Jacqueline Caux and Olivier Pascal - with Elise Caron - eRikm - Christof Schläger.
ELICA VPO-4290 - Robot Records 2008 - Forced Exposure; Métamkine, Fr .; The box, It .; Mimaroglu Music Sales; The city, Germ .;
A-Musik, Cologne, Germany .; Empreintes Digitales, Montreal Can .; Disk Union, Tokyo, Jap.
  • VMR - Vladimir Maäovski Remix (2007)
DVD by Franck Ancel. Music by Luc Ferrari "Programs Commun pour Clavecin et Bande" played by Elisabeth Chojnacka.
  • Les Archives sauvées des Eaux
Disc Callithump CPCD-001. Luc Ferrari with Otomo Yoshihide.
“Slow Landing” Luc Ferrari with Otomo Yoshihide, camera: Miyaoka Hideyuki and Nishihara Tazz Miyaoka

Released as CD + DVD

  • Didascalies
Rencontres Fortuites (2003) for viola, piano and stored sound.
Didascalies (2004) for viola and piano
Tautologos 3 (1969)
Vincent Royer - viola and Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven - piano

+ DVD

  • Luc Ferrari face à sa tautologie - 2 jours avant la fin
Film by Guy-Marc Hinant and Dominique Lohlé
In French with English subtitles. Recordings of the sample from Tautologos III.
«Which should be Luc's last one this July 2005. »
Sub Rosa SR261 luc ferrari "didascalies" / cd + dvd / May 2007

This collection box received the "Coup de Coeur Charles Cros - musique contemporaine printemps 2008" and the Grand Prix of the festival "Filmer à tout prix" in Brussels in 2008

  • Presque rien avec Luc Ferrari
2004 film by Jacqueline Caux and Olivier Pascal - with Elise Caron - eRikm - Christof Schläger.
ELICA VPO-4290
Robot Records 2008
Forced exposure; Métamkine, Fr .; The box, It .; Mimaroglu Music Sales; The city, Germ .; A-Musik, Cologne, Germ .; Empreintes Digitales, Montreal Can .; Disk Union, Tokyo, Jap.
  • Les Archives sauvées des Eaux
Luc Ferrari with Otomo Yoshihide.
“Slow Landing” Luc Ferrari with Otomo Yoshihide, camera: Miyaoka Hideyuki and Nishihara Tazz Miyaoka
Disc Callithump CPCD-001

Book releases

  • Presque rien avec Luc Ferrari
by Jacqueline Caux, in Japanese translation by Ryosuke Shiina (Tokyo, 2006)
Editions Main d'œuvre 2002
  • Sonopsys N ° 4 Luc Ferrari I
Cahiers Musique Concrète / Acousmatique, published by Licenses (bilingual in French and English)
by Alexandre Yterce and Florence Gonot
  • Luc Ferrari portraits polychromes
extended edition GRM / INA

literature

  • MusikTexte 107, November 2005, 47–82 (Ferrari theme with contributions by Luc Ferrari, Peter Michael Hamel, Tatjana Böhme-Mehner, Daniel Teruggi, Monika Lichtenfeld, Klaus Mehner, Hanno Ehrler, Jacqueline Caux and catalog raisonné).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vladimir Maïakovski Remix. NoemaLab.eu, November 18, 2007 (accessed January 2, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Ferrari, Luc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer, sound artist and radio play maker
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 2005
Place of death Arezzo