"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural." — Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural. - Luc Ferrari

"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural."

— Luc Ferrari

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14 Quotes by Luc Ferrari

Luc Ferrari has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed…
I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil…
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the…
Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes:…
I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I…
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer…
Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated…
With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but…
You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

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More Gestural Quotes

This quote is filed under Gestural Quotes, one of 6 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is… — Morton Feldman
With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but… — Luc Ferrari
Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to… — William Gibson
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise. — Douglas Dunn

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