Luc Ferrari S/D

RIP to a true fuckin hero.

Danses Organiques is strange and beautiful of course, as is everything this great man did. yeah, you better believe his Acousmatrix disc rules. He is pretty much my favorite from the french mc crew. Presque Rien was such a headfuck. So glad I got to see him perform. God bless ya, LF.

going to have to ysi some bits of his classical-tribute piano work Collection 85 (the flip side of the original recording of Cellule 75). it's beautiful.

hoping the film documentaries he directed on Messiaen, Varése, etc. from the late 60's can see a DVD release, I'd love to see them.

i still don't have 'em. there's a buncha gaps in my collection. mp, we need to talk about those gaps.

my collection has a lot of gaps too, the two at the top of the want list are Brise-Glace & Matin Et Soir. I've heard a handful of the things from the last few years: worth hearing, though best in context with the earliers.

I've got a lot of the rest of it, my favorites are the four I mentioned, and as of tonight, Collection 85 is really hitting me right

Presque Rien can't be excerpted without doing damage, you have to hear the whole thing.

Here's the final movement of Tautologos 3, for 11 instruments and tape, lines blurred

Collection 85 parts 1-5 - piano minatures with concréte & very silly synths, dedicated to Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, etc. the main opening theme at the beginning keeps coming back through the piece, each time augmented and buried under stranger layers of sound.

http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/ferrari.luc.html

Ina GRM released a 10-CD Luc Ferrari boxed set last year, and yes, it's incredible, and yes you need it immediately. Apparently, it's only 40 Euros from the Ina site (if you know French): http://boutique.ina.fr/cd/musique/electroacoustique/PDTINA001667/luc-ferrari.fr.html

...or $20 from Amazon (MP3 downloads): http://www.amazon.com/Ferrari-L-uvre-électronique/dp/B002C1F5T6/

...but I ended up ordering the set from an English-language site (Canadian), for $80 Canadian: http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/ina_g_6017/

I checked my credit card bill, and it ended up being $80 USA for the set. You order from Canada, but they ship from France, actually. They also have the unbelievable 12-CD Bernard Parmegiani set for the same price (nod to Soundslike/Musicophilia for the recommendation): http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/ina_g_6000/

http://www.soundohm.com/luc-ferrari/ephemere-i-ii/algen/

^^ super wow. first release of two tape pieces from 74/75 -- first one is okay, but second one, 'ephemere II, lyon 1975', is sprawling 51 minute long tape-delay piece in the vein of all the Terry Riley organ improvs he was prone to doing in Paris around those years. I would have thought that the last ten years worth of bands abusing their Line6 pedals would have made the idea of a 51 minute acoustic-guitar-through-delays piece seem besides the point but this thing is sprawling psychedelic awesomeness -- even though it sounds like a casual real-time improv this is out of nowhere one of my favorite Ferrari pieces

better link

love luc ferrari so will try this

Deleted Tautologos off my HD today, tried for many years to "get" it, failed.

not one of my favourites of his

Really? It's up there with Presque Rien for me.

reiterating Milton's "super-wow" on that Ferrari piece.

man, i really want to hear ephemere, leonardo... anyone?

^^

http://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=13167

A labour of love put together by his long-term partner:

https://cafeoto.co.uk/media/thumbnails/uploads/img-5363-1024x1024_page_image.jpg

https://cafeoto.co.uk/shop/luc-ferrari-complete-works/

Great to hear live diffusions of 'Petite Symphony' and (especially) 'Presque Rien II' plus a new realisation of 'Ephemere 1' on a multi channel speaker system at Cafe Oto last Thursday. My first exposure to Ferrari's music.

I was there during the week. Should really have bought that box set.

.. last week rather.

sorry I didn't see you dadismus, should have shouted out beforehand, was there for most of it

liked that jim o'rourke quintet version of 'éphémère' (sounded like a mashed cover of both versions, I and II). but 'presque rien II' is always the showstopper, made sense to end all eight days with that one.

that 'complete works' book is worth it. his records/cds aren't even a third of his works; the book gives you a walkthrough of all his live theater / films, and an overview of the scores for live performance. + many interviews.

the other merch table revelation was this: https://www.discogs.com/Luc-Ferrari-Avec-Otomo-Yoshihide-Les-Archives-Sauv%C3%A9es-Des-Eaux/release/1623011 -- liner notes from otomo uncharacteristic & emotional; in 2003 he'd mostly moved on from sampling / referential turntablism, but couldn't pass up the opportunity to work with ferrari so bent his own strict aesthetic rules to do so, and then the work with mr heterozygote himself, who spent his own career breaking every/any formal process possible, led to the late-period avant-big band otomo where he just began allowing himself to incorporate & move between all of his previous styles

Hi, Jon, I was working late all that week so could only get to the Apartment House performance, I don't know if you were there, I didn't see you. Next time!