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Date: Saturday 29 January 2005
Duration: 30 minutes x 2
Venue: Tate Modern
Event: The Sound of Heaven and Earth
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Composer's Notes
Tautologos 3 by Luc Ferrari
Amiens, 1969
One can tautologize with friends, either as an amateur musician, or in words, each person choosing a sentence. For example, one can organize a tautologous dinner, or a tautologous party. Sensuality is not excluded. The production does not require sounds and can be carried out in the form of gestures, because one can also tautologically move.
One can achieve this score in the form of a ballet, or in the form of theatre, each "actor" adding to the tautologizing group. One can start from an instrument that tautologizes alone, add other instruments that tautologize among themselves, add actors who speak the Tautolanguage, add dancers who move in a tautologrotesque manner, send images projections or projectors that switch like a tautologoscope, concern parts of the audience...
Performance Archive
Instrumentation included: Bass by John Edwards,
Bass Saxophone by Tony Bevan, Electronics by Andrew
Morgan, Electronics and Flutes by David Toop,
Harp by Rogeri Davis, Cello by Neil Heyde
as well as Backing Tape and Piano by Luc Ferrari.
Performance Recording:
Luc included the use of a pre-produced backing track for the work. During the performance Luc kept strict time with a stop watch and periodically joined the ensemble to play segments of piano and take photographs of both the ensemble and the audience. Detailed discussions on the structure and transformation of
the instrumentation and composition are available by listening to the rehearsal below under Compositional Score.
| Tautologos III - performance 30 min Real Audio |
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Compositional Score
The scores could take any form, from verbal instruction, found sound and poetry, to other music, so long as it is delivered exclusively in audio, with no written text, conducting, physical cues or gestures.
Audio Score:
Luc Ferrari worked in close collaboration with the ensemble
throughout a rehearsal, where he and the musicians were recorded
live exchanging a verbal score with a binaural, lapel microphone.
On this occasion the rights were not obtained from all 6 musicians
to release this as a downloadable and reusable file. It is available
here as a Real Audio playback file. PDF's of the verbal score's
inspiration and a visual representation of what a score for Tautologos
III would look like, scanned from original documents provided by
the Composer are included for download below.
| Verbal Score and Rehearsal - 37 min Real Audio |
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Download further versions of the Score; as described at the beginning of the Verbal Score and Rehearsal recording. The Tautologos III 'audio score' was inspired
by an older score, originally produced by Luc Ferrari in the 1970's. The full text for that original score is available below in .pdf format both as a) bitmap images and b) text.
Luc Ferrari has also provided c) a visual representation of instrumentation, based on the principles of his aural score.
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| a) Original Text / Script for Tautologos III .pdf - 7 pages |
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| b) Text Recognition Scan / Script for Tautologos III .pdf - 7 pages |
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| c) Visual representation of a Tautologos III Score .pdf - 1 page |
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Terms of the Licence: You are free to copy and distribute the work in conjunction with this licence. You must give the original author credit. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. See here for further information on Creative Commons.
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Composer's Biography
Luc Ferrari was born in Paris in 1929. What about this first sentence; first 1929. He wrote several autobiographies, with falsified data. Writing drives him mad, you never should ask him about that. And whereas he didn't dare to make himself younger, he made himself older. So there are a lot of false data going around, which he enjoyed before. Now he doesn't enjoy it anymore so much.
Next: born in Paris. He questions himself: born in Paris!
He wonders what if he'd been born in his father's small village in Corsica? What if he'd been born in Marseille where his mother grew up? He wonders what he would have become if he'd been born in Italy, the land of his forefathers and foremothers.
He does not have any answer to all these questions.
"I have carried out works, which lead more or less away from merely musical concerns. Some of them appeal to a junction between different branches of what could be one single tree. The problem is to try to express ideas, feelings, passing intuitions by different means to observe everyday life in all its realities, weather they are social, psychological or sentimental. This might exteriorize itself in text form, in writing for instruments, in electroacoustic compositions, reportings, movies, music theater and so on." - Luc Ferrari
Luc Ferrari studied piano and composition with Alfred Cortot, Arthur Honegger and Olivier Messiaen. He began composing in 1946. In 1952 he attended the Darmstadt Summer School. He was a member of the Groupe de Musique Concrète from 1958 to 1966. With Pierre Schaeffer, he founded the Groupe de Recherche Musicale (1958-59). he has taught composition in, Köln and Pantin (near Paris); and experimental music in Stockholm. In 1968/69, he served as artistic director of the Maison de la Culture d' Amiens.
In 1965/66, with Gérard Patris, he produced a TV series "Les Grandes Répétitions" on the work of Olivier Messiaen, Edgar Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hermann Scherchen, and Cecil Taylor.
In 1972 he built his studio, a modest electroacoustic workshop, known as "Billig". in 1982 he created the association " La Muse en Circuit ", a studio for electroacoustic composition and radio art. In 1996, he rebuilt his studio, this time called "Atelier post-billig".
In 1995 a Ferrari season "Parcours Confus" was organized throughout Holland. In 2000, a retrospective of all his electroacoustic compositions and radio art pieces was organized by the Futura festival, Crest, France. He traveled to the United States in 2001 and Tokyo in 2002 and 2003, then to Marseille and Switzerland for concert performances. In 2004 the ensemble Ars Nova, with the city of Poitiers, organized a week-long Ferrari-retrospective of his electroacoustic, solo and orchestra works within the Lille 2004-festival. in November 2004, a week of Ferrari's compositions for ensembles, electroacoustic works, and his audio-visual installation "Cycle des souvenirs" was organized by the Novelum festival of Toulouse.
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