Luc Ferrari
Luc Ferrari (1929 to 2005) was a French composer, best known for his tape music and for what he called anecdotal music, in which recorded everyday life enters the piece without being disguised. Born in Paris, he travelled to the United States in 1954 to meet Edgard Varèse, whose Déserts he had heard on the radio, and in 1958 joined Pierre Schaeffer's Groupe de Recherches Musicales. Hétérozygote (1964) already let recognisable sounds into concrete music; Presque rien No. 1 (1970), a day on a Yugoslav beach edited down to twenty one minutes, became a classic of its kind.
Solitude Transit
Transversales Disques is very glad to announce the release of Solitude Transit, unpublished archives by electroacoustic music pioneer Luc Ferrari. Music composed for contemporary dance, choregraphed by Anne-Marie Reynaud. Affiliated with French Radio…
Perspectives And Echoes / Tautologos III
-bRt- group for music creationGaudenz Badrutt, live electronics / Estelle Beiner, violin / Jacques Demierre, piano / Jonas Kocher, accordion (Tautologos III) / Stephen Menotti, trombone / Manon Pierrehumbert, harp / Christian Wolfarth, percussion
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Femme Descendant L'escalier
* Rare private press CD * By a beautiful day of end of summer, September 20, 2004, my hosts Maria Bella and Miguel, involved me in a hazardous route in the streets of Madrid. The finality was to record sound elements which could be useful to me in t…
…et après (2Lp)
After an already productive year, Alga Marghen, in the guise of their sub-imprint, Planam, delivers, “…et après”, an astounding double LP of archival material documenting the collaboration between Luc Ferrari and Ensemble Laborintus. Issued in a limi…
Atelier de Libération de la Musique
**Much needed repress.** Often, when looking back over the history if experimental music in France, easy divisions can be seen to emerge. There are the pioneers of improvised music, usually associated with jazz, and there are the pioneers of electron…
Labyrinthe de Violence
The venerable Alga Marghen returns with "Labyrinthe de Violence", their new release of previously unreleased recordings by Luc Ferrari connected to his Atelier de Libération de la Musique experience, this time sprawling across two stunning LPs. Captu…
Tacet #04: The Sounds of Utopia
**2020 stock. 560 pages!** The sound arts and experimental music annual review's 4th issue, on the theme of utopias. Utopia belongs to those concepts that haunt both the history of ideas and the history of artistic practice. In this fourth issue,Tac…
Dialogue Ordinaire Avec La Machine
**Limited edition of 300 vinyl copies, comes with a 30x30cm 4-page booklet. Gatefold cover** 2019 has been a fantastic year for the late, great master of electroacoustic music, Luc Ferrari. We’ve witnessed the release of two astounding LPs of archiva…
Photophonie
Since their launch in 2017, the Paris based imprint, Transversales Disques, has done the seemingly impossible. Not only have they carved out an entirely singular place in the contemporary landscape of reissues and archival releases, but they’ve raise…
L'Escalier Des Aveugles
**Includes a 12 page accordion-style booklet with documents from Luc Ferrari's archive** L’Escalier des Aveugles, or The Stairway of the Blind, was commissioned in November 1990 by Spanish National Radio (Radio Nacional de España). Asked for a piece …
Musique Concrete
This outstanding LP (originally published in 1969 for the US market) together a selection of music recorded at GRM, mostly during early 60s. Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales (The Group of Musical Research) of the O.R.T.F. (Office of the French Radio…
Musique Experimentale
Cacophonic present a reissue of Musique Expérimentale, originally released in 1962. Further concrète explorations from the second generation of forward-thinking sonic auteurs that would push the boundaries of experimental music known collectively as …
Complete Music For Films 1960-1984
Complete Music For Films 1960-1984 is a three-CD set that gathers Luc Ferrari's complete works for films from 1960-1984, including electronic pieces, concrete music made in GRM, and some hybrids including traditional instruments. Very rare pieces, mo…
Tinguely 1967
Unreleased material by Luc Ferrari, released here on Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series. Two tracks from the forthcoming three-CD box set devoted to Luc Ferrari's film music. Not only does the collection reveal a little-known chunk of Ferrari's oeu…
Heterozygote / Petite Symphonie...
In the field of biology Heterozygous (Hétérozygote) means: a plant whose heredity is mixed. It implies that Hétérozygote, composed between December 1963 and March 1964, is an attempt to engineer a language located both on the musical and on the dra…
Musiques dans les spasmes – Ecrits (1951-2005)
French edition. Edited by Brunhild Ferrari and Jérôme Hansen. Foreword by Jim O’Rourke. Introduction by Brunhild Ferrari. Interview with Luc Ferrari by Pierre-Yves Macé and David Sanson. Luc Ferrari’s writings, most of them previously unpublished. A …
Ephémère
Three works for viola and tape or electronics played by Vincent Royer: Luc Ferrari's Ephémère in a 2012 version by Brunhild Ferrari, her Le Piano Englouti, and Royer's live improvisation on Ferrari's Ce qu'a vu le Cers.
Musique Concrète
Temporary Super Offer! Reissue of 1960 BAM label release. Musique Concrète represents an important milestone in the development and progression of the genre of the same name. It marks a crossroad for the genre and its originator, Pierre Schaeffer and…
Tautologos III / Havresac
Tautologos III' (1969) from Luc Ferrari performed by GOL (Jean-Marcel Busson : electronics (Metacrackle, Luxonic), charango. Frédéric Rebotier : voice, clarinet, objects. Ravi Shardja : bass, electric mandoline, flute, sanza) and Brunhild Meyer-Ferra…
Programme Commun
Red vinyl edition, limited 250 copies. to Sub Rosa presents two substantial pieces from electro-acoustic musique concrete innovator Luc Ferrari: "Programme commun pour clavecin et bande magnetique" (1972), performed by Elisabeth Chojnacka, and anothe…
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Sonopsys N° 4
2007 release, complex book (texts in French with a translation into Engish) richly illustrated, containing a precious CD with Luc Ferrari's earlier concrete music pieces, dated 1959.Luc Ferrari trained in music since a very young age and continued hi…
Piano & Percussion Works
2011 release. Satoko Inoue is an experienced performer of Ferrari’s works and had a lively exchange of ideas with the composer, who was also present at the recording sessions. No wonder then that precisely those ideas of open work and its “anecdo…
Almost Nothing with Luc Ferrari
Originally published in France in 2002, Jacqueline Caux’s Presque Rien avec Luc Ferrari is the first book to offer a comprehensive and insightful look into the work and career of one the most pioneering music composers of the second half of the 20th …
Und so weiter / Music Promenade
With the legendary “Studio Reihe Neuer Musik” series, Wergo created a trademark of advanced contemporary music in the Sixties of the past century already. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the label now releases these highlights of 20th-centur…
Jetzt
In 1981/1982 the French composer Luc Ferrari produced the radio play “Jetzt – oder wahrscheinlich ist dies mein Alltag, in der Verwirrung der Orte und der Augenblicke” [“NOW – or Probably This Is My Everyday Life in the Confusion of Places and Moment…
Plays Luc Ferrari Cycles Des Souvenirs
Populista serie. Rinus van Alebeek played back Luc Ferrari 'Cycle des Souvenirs' on the 29th of October 2010 in composer's flat in Montreuil. Walking around, he recorded it again with his Sony Walkman. Brunhild Ferrari read liner notes of the CD rele…
Visitation
A rare collaboration, Visitation unites French turntablist eRikm and electroacoustic pioneer Luc Ferrari for a masterclass in musique concrète and sonic collage, echoing the legacy of Pierre Schaeffer.
Madame De Shanghai - Après Presque Rien - Visage 2
Three works by Luc Ferrari: Visage 2 (1955-56) and Après presque rien (2004), both first recordings with Musiques Nouvelles and Art Zoyd, and Madame de Shanghai for three flutes and digital sounds.
Les Grandes Répétitions
DVD of two filmed portraits made by Luc Ferrari and Gérard Patris for French TV in the 1960s: Stockhausen rehearsing Momente, and Hommage à Edgard Varèse, released here for the first time with English subtitles.
Exercices d'improvisation
** Edition limited to 350 copies, includes an insert with the complete score by Luc Ferrari. ** Luc Ferrari conceived this work in 1977 as a sequence of seven individually or collectively improvised exercises for tape and any instrument or group of i…
Tranquilles Impatiences
Alga Marghen proudly presents the first record edition ever by Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari, a very refined and talented german composer, wife of Luc Ferrari with whom she collaborated for over 40 years in creating some of the most beautiful sound works ev…
Ephemere I & II
Alga Marghen presents Éphémère I & II (for tape, or to be played with various instruments) -- two previously-unpublished masterpieces which represent for several reasons a very specific moment in the creative life and catalog of Luc Ferrari. Even if …
Didascalies 2
Vinyl-only release. Performers: Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven (piano); Claude Berset (piano); Vincent Royer (viola). Sub Rosa presents the first release after their Luc Ferrari trilogy. Didascalies 2 is not to be confused with 2007's Didascalies (S…
Chantal
An inedite work by the great composer Luc Ferrari: 'chantal, ou le portrait d'une villageoise' 1977-1978. Stereo magnetic tape. Mastering: Jérôme Joy, Meriol Lehmann-Avatar.
Les Arythmiques
One of his final works, Les Arythmiques finds the late musique concrète veteran Luc Ferrari engaging with the cardiac condition that struck him towards the end of his life. Inspired by the jolt of electricity that was prescribed to combat his arrhyth…
Labyrinthe de violence / Danse
Ultra limited release: "Danse" was part of a sound/visual installation called "Labyrinthe de violence". Previously unpublished, this radical experimental work has now been released on LP record in collaboration with the New Media Dept of Centre Pomp…
Archives sauvées des eaux
Luc Ferrari's composition Archives sauvées des eaux for two DJs was premiered in Japan and performed by the composer himself and Otomo Yoshihide at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo in 2003. This CD is a live recording of their first and the only performance, bef…
Volume 1: Chansons Pour Le Corps
First volume of Mode's Luc Ferrari series: Chansons pour le corps, built on interviews with women recorded in the Jardin du Luxembourg, and the symphonic tale Et si tout entière maintenant for actress, tapes and orchestra.
Archives Genetiquement Modifiees/Societe II
Archives Génétiquement Modifiées (2000). Société II (1967). Robot Records is honored and pleased to present two historic compositions for the first time on CD by the late, great Luc Ferrari. The programme opens with Archives Génétiquement Modifiées (…
Presque Rien Avec Luc Ferrari
RESTOCKED The first DVD release on Elica is a beautiful 50-minute portrait of composer Luc Ferrari made by his friend Jacqueline Caux with Olivier Pascal, which is fully informative and acutely representative of Ferrari's spirit. Featuring Elise Caro…