Name: Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms
Start: 2019-11-18T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-11-19T23:00:00-05:00
Location: Pioneer Works

Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms

Pioneer Works

Over the course of two nights, Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms celebrates the French composer in what would have been his 90th year.

Luc Ferrari

Doors at 7PMPerformance at 8PM“Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms” brings together a range of musicians to mark the U.S. publication of the book Luc Ferrari: Complete Works (Ecstatic Peace Library).Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) was one of the progenitors of musique concrète and a pioneer of and resonantly idiosyncratic voice within electroacoustic music. Ferrari was an early participant in the Groupe de Musique Concrète and, with Pierre Schaeffer and François-Bernard Mâche, co-founded the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1958. In the mid-1960s, largely unaltered environmental recordings began to work their way into his compositions, a process that culminated in the tremendously influential Presque rien No. 1 (Le Lever du jour au bord de la mer) (1970), a work whose source material was comprised exclusively of recordings made from a point overlooking a beach on the Dalmatian coast. Throughout his career, Ferrari worked in multiple forms: instrumental works, vocal music, text scores, electronic and electroacoustic music, and Hörspiele, and together with Gérard Patris he realized a marvelous series of short documentary films about musicians in rehearsal entitled Les Grands Répétitions.The many stylistic shifts within Ferrari’s work paired with his wily, idiosyncratic aloofness from post-war music ideologies made him an especially appealing figure to younger musicians and composers, many of whom are participating in the Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms festival. It’s little surprise that Ferrari’s final decades were marked by encounters with musicians who knew him first from recordings but then were amazed to make the meaningful acquaintance of an ever-vital, generous, hilarious, wonderfully social artist who didn’t hesitate to throw himself into friendships and collaborative working relationships with those he recognized as kindred spirits.“Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms” complements “Recherches Filmiques,” a<a href="http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/51707" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> series of Ferrari’s films at Anthology Film Archives </a>(Nov 21-27). <a href="http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/51707" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>Program One, November 18Et tournent les sons dans la garrigue (1977)Stereo tape and free instrumentationTania Caroline Chen: pianoDavid Grubbs: electric guitarEli Keszler: percussionJon Leidecker: electronicsThurston Moore: electric guitarMatana Roberts: alto saxophoneLes ProtoRythmiques (2004-5)For two DJsJon LeideckerKeith Fullerton WhitmanProgram Two, November 19Catherine Marcangeli and David Grubbs in conversationEphémère (1974)Tape alone or to be played with various instruments (free instrumentation)Four-channel recorded realization by Jim O’Rourke (2019)Keith Fullerton Whitman: Redactions, after Luc Ferrari (2019)Tautologos III (1969; Chicago Version, 2001)For any group of instrumentsTania Caroline Chen: electronicsKeith fullerton Whitman: pianoDavid Grubbs: electric guitarEli Keszler: percussionJon Leidecker: electronicsChris McIntyre: tromboneThurston Moore: electric guitar

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