condition (book): NEW 10"x7", 240-page fully illustrated softbound book.  Musiques dans les spasmes, published by Les Presses Du Réel, collects Luc Ferrari's own writings: manifestos, program notes, interviews, fragments of thought accumulated over decades. The spasms of the title refer to music's capacity to interrupt, to seize the body unexpectedly, to bypass the rational mind entirely.

Ferrari wrote the way he composed: in fragments, with sudden cuts, following associative logic rather than linear argument. These texts reveal a mind perpetually in motion, restless with received ideas, hungry for new formulations. He was no systematic thinker, and that was precisely his strength. Where academic discourse smooths and connects, Ferrari preferred rupture, discontinuity, the gap that forces the reader to leap. The book reads like a notebook preserved without false coherence.