23 Quotes by Luc Ferrari

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing – it wasn’t enough to play other people’s notes: I had to write notes too.

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.

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

I have problems with machines which aren’t gestural.

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.