Luc Ferrari Quotes

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of thing.

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.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.