23 Quotes by Luc Ferrari

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

I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.

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.

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.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

I was doing the university circuit-I do conferences on my work and if all goes well they give me a concert or two in the university.

What interested me was looping the events in such a way that each time they reappeared, they created new musical objects. The idea of tautology.

No, the great musical encounter was with Cage, who exploded all those ideas which were already starting to get a bit institutionalised.

I was born in Paris, and I haven’t moved, except until now – I live in the suburbs and I hate it.