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FERRARI, LUC — Photophonie (Bandes magntiques indites (1973 - 1992)
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In 2019, to mark the 90th anniversary of his birth, Transversales Disques is very glad to announce the release of Photophonie unpublished archives, spanning 1973-1992, revelatory collection of commercial, commission and secret music by electroacoustic music pioneer Luc Ferrari.
- Photophonie (1989) / Music for the photographic exhibition of Alain Willaume.
- Il tait une fois (1973) / Commissioned by the G.M.E.B.
- Trans-Voices (1992) / Curated by the American Center, Paris.
- Tu m'coutes - (1975).
Affiliated with French Radios Groupe de Musique Concrte, co-founder of the GRM with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958 Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) major figure of musique concrte and electroacoustic music broke away to pave his own path of individualistic expressions of minimalist music, musical theatre, field recordings, orchestral music and soundtracks
https://transversales.bandcamp.com/album/photophonie
"Four staggering, previously unreleased Luc Ferrari works c.1973-1992 are cued up for the first time, marking what would have been the late, great electro-acoustic pioneers 90th birthday.
As co-founder of the GRM in 1958 with Pierre Schaeffer, and behind dozens of singular LPs during the 2nd half of the 20th century, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) is by any measure one of the legends of musique electro-acoustique. As his treasured archive continues to turn out gems on the Recollection GRM series, Ferraris precious, poetic work now joins that of peers such as Bernard Parmegiani and Franois Bayle on Transversales Disques, the label run by GRMs audio restoration engineer, Jonathan Fitoussi, with four pieces spanning psychedelic surrealism thru to a sort of late 80s sci-fi romance.
Known as the poet of the GRM and concrte disciplines, Ferraris exceptional recordings leant away from academic exercises to inventively express a synthesis of styles that simultaneously intersected minimalism, musical theatre, field recordings, orchestral music and soundtracks. The four pieces of Photophonie beautifully and thrillingly speak to Ferraris grasp of the sonosphere and its omnipresent plurality with a deftness of arrangement and overarching vision that that sounds both of its era and also within its own parallel dream dimension.
Written for a photographic exhibition by Alain Willhaume, the opening, 25 long first piece Photophonie (1989) emerges like an MTV ident, and continues like some hypermodern deco-dance work, all fractured shrapnel and acres of negative space, but soon flows out into a remarkable tract of vast ambient space conveying the sensation of exploring an abandoned space station, only to find some whispering French and German characters surviving in its bowels. If werent told otherwise, this work could have easily been the modern day soundtrack to something like Beyond the Black Rainbow.
The other side scrolls back to 1973 with Il tat une fois, a 17 piece spanning field recordings thru to queasy drones and cartoonish honks which perhaps sounds more of its time, but then again recalls Rashad Beckers music for notional species gone to an alien fairground, while an all too brief snippet of Trans Voices (1992) gives way to a lather of sampled voices, choral drones and pulsating rhythm in Tu mcoutes (1975) that holds among the darkest and proto-acidic/technoid works weve heard from Ferrari, at the least.
Whether youre an expert or novice to Ferraris oeuvre, trust this ones definitely worth your time." [Boomkat]
- Photophonie (1989) / Music for the photographic exhibition of Alain Willaume.
- Il tait une fois (1973) / Commissioned by the G.M.E.B.
- Trans-Voices (1992) / Curated by the American Center, Paris.
- Tu m'coutes - (1975).
Affiliated with French Radios Groupe de Musique Concrte, co-founder of the GRM with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958 Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) major figure of musique concrte and electroacoustic music broke away to pave his own path of individualistic expressions of minimalist music, musical theatre, field recordings, orchestral music and soundtracks
https://transversales.bandcamp.com/album/photophonie
"Four staggering, previously unreleased Luc Ferrari works c.1973-1992 are cued up for the first time, marking what would have been the late, great electro-acoustic pioneers 90th birthday.
As co-founder of the GRM in 1958 with Pierre Schaeffer, and behind dozens of singular LPs during the 2nd half of the 20th century, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) is by any measure one of the legends of musique electro-acoustique. As his treasured archive continues to turn out gems on the Recollection GRM series, Ferraris precious, poetic work now joins that of peers such as Bernard Parmegiani and Franois Bayle on Transversales Disques, the label run by GRMs audio restoration engineer, Jonathan Fitoussi, with four pieces spanning psychedelic surrealism thru to a sort of late 80s sci-fi romance.
Known as the poet of the GRM and concrte disciplines, Ferraris exceptional recordings leant away from academic exercises to inventively express a synthesis of styles that simultaneously intersected minimalism, musical theatre, field recordings, orchestral music and soundtracks. The four pieces of Photophonie beautifully and thrillingly speak to Ferraris grasp of the sonosphere and its omnipresent plurality with a deftness of arrangement and overarching vision that that sounds both of its era and also within its own parallel dream dimension.
Written for a photographic exhibition by Alain Willhaume, the opening, 25 long first piece Photophonie (1989) emerges like an MTV ident, and continues like some hypermodern deco-dance work, all fractured shrapnel and acres of negative space, but soon flows out into a remarkable tract of vast ambient space conveying the sensation of exploring an abandoned space station, only to find some whispering French and German characters surviving in its bowels. If werent told otherwise, this work could have easily been the modern day soundtrack to something like Beyond the Black Rainbow.
The other side scrolls back to 1973 with Il tat une fois, a 17 piece spanning field recordings thru to queasy drones and cartoonish honks which perhaps sounds more of its time, but then again recalls Rashad Beckers music for notional species gone to an alien fairground, while an all too brief snippet of Trans Voices (1992) gives way to a lather of sampled voices, choral drones and pulsating rhythm in Tu mcoutes (1975) that holds among the darkest and proto-acidic/technoid works weve heard from Ferrari, at the least.
Whether youre an expert or novice to Ferraris oeuvre, trust this ones definitely worth your time." [Boomkat]