a r t i s t : Luc Ferrari
t i t l e : Didascalies
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : Subrosa
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Dec/2007
t r a c k s : 03
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 76,3 MB
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Luc Ferrari facing his tautology: two days before the end
Luc Ferrari takes out an old score, Tautologos III, to record
it at La Muse en Circuit
in the summer of 2005. The "score" is actually a set of three
rules:
1. Each musician freely decides on a theme an length of
silence to be repeated for 21 minutes
2. Each musician can fanatically stick to his choice or change
it according to what the other
musician is playing
3. Well, there is no third rule.
The whole thing is to be recorded several times in a row, in
layers, and supported by a tape part consisting of the
stupidest sounds possible, in order to beef up the sound mass
of the piece, for no particular reason. Sounds easy, right ?
Well it was not. The first layer was successfully recorded
during the first 21 minutes of recording, but it took almost
two days for Luc and the musicians - Jean-Philippe
Collard-Neven and Vincent Royer - to record the second one.
The third layer, like the cherry on top of a sundae, will
consist in books forcefully closed every two and a half
minutes. Luc died a little over a month after this experiment.
It turned out to be his last game.
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01-Rencontres Fortuites [23:14]
02-Didascalies [21:19]
03-Tautologos III [15:08]
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59:41 min