To celebrate the 90th anniversary of Luc Ferrari’s birth Transversales Disques is very glad to announce the release of Photophonie, unpublished archives, spanning 1973-1992, revelatory collection of commercial, commission and secret music by electroacoustic music pioneer Luc Ferrari.
– « Photophonie » (1989) / Music for the photographic exhibition of Alain Willaume.
– « Il était une fois » (1973) / Commissioned by the G.M.E.B.
– « Trans-Voices » (1992) / Curated by the American Center, Paris.
– « Leica » – (1977) / Advertising for the Leica camera.
Affiliated with French Radio’s Groupe de Musique Concrète, co-founder of the GRM with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005), major figure of musique concrète and electroacoustic music, broke away to pave his own path of individualistic expressions of minimalist music, musical theater, field recordings, orchestral music and soundtracks…