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Luc Ferrari
Archives Génétiquement Modifiées / Société II (CD)
FormatCDLabelRobot RecordsGenreExperimental
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condition (disc/cover): M / M (still sealed) Archives Génétiquement Modifiées / Société II on Robot Records demonstrates Luc Ferrari's late-period mastery of what might be called electroacoustic autobiography. The "genetically modified archives" of the title refer to his own back catalog, decades of field recordings and studio experiments now spliced, recombined, mutated into new organisms. It's a procedure that risks self-indulgence but achieves something closer to confession.
"Société II" extends his investigations into social sound, the acoustic texture of collective human life. Ferrari was always more interested in the café than the concert hall, more drawn to the train station than the studio. This release proves that his approach, once considered heretical by the GRM establishment, had become its own tradition, a counter-history of electroacoustic music rooted in the everyday.
Format
Archives Génétiquement Modifiées: Exploitation des concepts no. 3 [Genetically Modified Archives: Exploitation of the Concepts no. 3] (2000) - for memorized sounds, solo. Realized at Atelier post-billig.
Société II: Et si le piano était un corps de femme [Société II: And if the piano were a body of a woman] (1967) - for four soloists and sixteen instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, trombone, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, double bass. Soloists: 1 piano, 3 percussions). This recording was made in 1968.
Packaged in full color Digipak with 20-page booklet in both English and French.
Featured artwork and notations appearing in Mr. Ferrari's original, first draft of "Société II" are reproduced here with the kind permission of the Presque Rien Association.
© Luc Ferrari, 1968/2008
℗ Robot Records, 2008
Release notes
Archives Génétiquement Modifiées: Exploitation des concepts no. 3 [Genetically Modified Archives: Exploitation of the Concepts no. 3] (2000) - for memorized sounds, solo. Realized at Atelier post-billig. Société II: Et si le piano était un corps de femme [Société II: And if the piano were a body of a woman] (1967) - for four soloists and sixteen instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, trombone, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, double bass. Soloists: 1 piano, 3…
| Archives Génétiquement Modifiées | |||
| 1 | - | 2:52 | |
| 2 | - | 3:36 | |
| 3 | - | 1:51 | |
| 4 | - | 6:04 | |
| 5 | - | 5:48 | |
| 6 | - | 4:29 | |
| Société II | |||
| 7 | - | 8:40 | |
| 8 | - | 8:33 | |
| 9 | - | 10:22 | |
- Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari
- Artwork [Back Cover Photomontage], Photography By [Inside Portrait]
- Luc Ferrari
- Artwork [Front Cover Artwork, Collage, Scores, Handwritten Text], Liner Notes
- Konstantin Simonovitch
- Directed By (7 to 9)
- Andi Chapple
- Layout
- Jay Sanders
- Liner Notes
- Jim O'Rourke
- Liner Notes
- Julien Bismuth
- Liner Notes [Translation]
- Kevin Spencer
- Mastered By
- Ensemble Instrumental De Musique Contemporaine De Paris
- Performer (7 to 9)
- Jean Schwarz
- Remastered By [Audio Restoration] (7 to 9)
