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The third part of Ferrari's trilogy, now reissued on CD & DVD to include video footage of Ferrari "facing his tautology: two days before the end." The entire trilogy is made up of the CDs les anecdotiques (Sub Rosa 207), son mémorisé (Sub Rosa 252) and didascalies (Sub Rosa 259 or 261).

"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.

The story of the last part of a trilogy.

The idea of bringing together Rencontres fortuites, Didascalies and Tautologos III - two recent works for piano, viola and electronics, and one open-ended work - imposed itself at a concert at the Boendael Chapel in Brussels, where Collard-Neven and Royer performed Didascalies, with Ferrari attending. A few months later, we found ourselves in the legendary Brème studios, having to deal with the waiting, the Tonmeister's mood swings, and Luc, sick, h.......
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Description:

The third part of Ferrari's trilogy, now reissued on CD & DVD to include video footage of Ferrari "facing his tautology: two days before the end." The entire trilogy is made up of the CDs les anecdotiques (Sub Rosa 207), son mémorisé (Sub Rosa 252) and didascalies (Sub Rosa 259 or 261).

"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.

The story of the last part of a trilogy.

The idea of bringing together Rencontres fortuites, Didascalies and Tautologos III - two recent works for piano, viola and electronics, and one open-ended work - imposed itself at a concert at the Boendael Chapel in Brussels, where Collard-Neven and Royer performed Didascalies, with Ferrari attending. A few months later, we found ourselves in the legendary Brème studios, having to deal with the waiting, the Tonmeister's mood swings, and Luc, sick, h.......
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