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.

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.

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.

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