Luc Ferrari was of an Italian heritage but French

French people

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 born composer, particularly noted for his tape music

Tape Music

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Biography

Luc Ferrari was born in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, and was trained in music at a very young age, studying the piano

Piano

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 under Alfred Cortot

Alfred Cortot

Alfred Denis Cortot was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor. He is one of the most renowned 20th-century classical musicians, especially valued for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works, particularly those of Chopin and Schumann.-Early life and education:Born in Nyon, Vaud, in the...

, musical analysis

Musical analysis

Musical analysis is the attempt to answer the question how does this music work?. The method employed to answer this question, and indeed exactly what is meant by the question, differs from analyst to analyst, and according to the purpose of the analysis. According to Ian Bent , analysis is "an...

 under Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

 and composition

Musical composition

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 under Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger

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. His first works were freely atonal. A case of tuberculosis in his youth interrupted his career as a pianist. From then on he mostly concentrated on musical composition. During this illness he had the opportunity to become acquainted with the radio receiver, with pioneers such as Schönberg

Arnold Schoenberg

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, Berg

Alban Berg

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, and Webern

Anton Webern

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In 1954, Ferrari went to the United States

United States

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 to meet Edgard Varèse

Edgard Varèse

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse, , whose name was also spelled Edgar Varèse , was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States....

, whose Déserts he had heard on the radio

Radio

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, and had impressed him. This seems to have had a great effect on him, with the tape part in Déserts serving as inspiration for Ferrari to use magnetic tape

Magnetic tape

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 in his own music. In 1958 he co-founded the Groupe de Recherches Musicales with Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences —particularly communications and acoustics— and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end...

 and François-Bernard Mâche

François-Bernard Mâche

François-Bernard Mâche is a French composer of contemporary music. Born into a family of musicians, he is a former student of Émile Passani and Olivier Messiaen and has also received a diploma in Greek archaeology and a teaching certificate...

. He taught in institutions around the world, and worked for film

Film

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, theatre

Theatre

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 and radio

Radio

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. By the early 1960, Ferrari had begun work on his Hétérozygote, a piece for magnetic tape which uses ambient environmental sounds to suggest a dramatic narrative. The use of ambient recordings was to become a distinctive part of Ferrari's musical language.

Ferrari's Presque rien No. 1 'Le Lever du jour au bord de la mer (1970) is regarded as a classic of its kind. In it, Ferrari takes a day-long recording of environmental sounds at a Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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n beach

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 and, through editing, makes a piece that lasts just twenty-one minutes. It has been seen as an affirmation of John Cage

John Cage

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's idea that music

Music

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 is always going on all around us, and if only we were to stop to listen to it, we would realise this. Ferrari continued to write purely instrumental music as well as his tape pieces. He also made a number of documentary film

Film

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s on contemporary composers in rehearsal, including Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

 and Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

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The Concepts

Another turn in his music was for Ferrari: Presque Rien ou le lever du Jour au Bord de la Mer - almost nothing or daybreak at the sea -. This piece illustrates or rather suggests unconsciously a minimalist process, about which one will speak much in the following years.

Concept of the Unit

Indeed, Presque Rien ou le lever du Jour au Bord de la Mer, from between 1967 and 1970, is a composition which materializes the break with the practices of the classical electro acoustics. Still more directly than what was called after Hétérozygote, anecdotic music, he requires for himself clearly the continuous sequence and the fixed sound image - like a slide - offering a slice of real as a work method and as means to escape from the habits.
" « At the beginning the concept Presque Rien does not have anything to do with the music. One must carry oneself back into the time; in the sixties one said: noises on a side, music on the other one. » " Ferrari did not get involved in this play.
He was concerned with making something coming from a deep desire without worrying whether this something fits into a category.
The concept in his opinion cannot be defined as genre, as aesthetics or as technology, but only as idea. That means that the concept at the beginning cannot be seized physically, but rather as a general impression, which one lends to a body.
This concept consists of: only one place - only one time - a certain acoustics - components, which he continues to develop from one Presque Rien to the other.

Concept of narration (Presque Rien No. 2 - ainsi continue la Nuit dans ma Tête multiple) - and the night continues in my numerous head -

One of the main characteristics of the Presque Rien is the narration,
Not in the sense to tell a story, rather to make observable the time suggesting that something occurs in a place.
Against the sound landscapes, where the place is perceptible, the elements he uses, and which he calls everyday life sounds should, by the concept of a minimal and not eventful story stimulate to a journey in the time; the coincidence of the everyday life noises belonging to the daily gestures and consisting of substance, is the element that constructs the time. The intention to tell is there, but remains blurred.

Concept of the Lie or the Perversion (Presque Rien avec filles) - almost nothing with girls

The concept of the lie stimulates Ferrari, and to name it, is almost a provocation. He uses the term of the perversion precisely in this sense.
A concept is relatively abstract, however it becomes alive with the change of time. This is exactly, what he calls Perversion. But since it’s his invention, he has no reason to remain loyal to his concept. If loyalty should be, so only that of the search for certain acoustics.

Concept of the Beauty (Presque Rien No. 4)

Ferrari believed for a long time, and the time helping, that beauty was a concept of the past, like a somewhat mallow and superfluous attribute. He believes from now on in the contrary that we should be concerned with the beauty, that it is indispensable for our reflection.
Or don't we have the time any more to be in charge of beauty because hideousness exasperates us?
He lived since some years in a suburb, where everything is ugly, inharmonious and wrong on its place, thus the harmony and the beauty appear to him as a necessity and not at all a trifle or a secondary matter.

Concept of the Disappearance (Presque Rien No. 5, - almost nothing with instruments -)

Indeed, the Presque Rien are in search of the beauty of the sound, the harmony of the sound.
In the search for the harmony of relations and the times.
Disappears the narration.
Disappears the recording as memory of a place or a situation.
Remains a kind of report, the presentation of some fewer elements, like a dilution and, how these find their place in the time.
The matter In Presque Rien No. 5 is the play of the objets musicaux - musical objects -.

Exploitation of the Concepts

« Since autumn 99, I have undertaken the composition of a new series of pieces with the general title Exploitation of the concepts. My purpose is to use those concepts I experimented in the course of my life as a composer and to use them in all possible directions. »

• Archives sauvées des Eaux (2000)

Exploitation of the concepts 1 - archives saved from the flood -
(for 2 CD and Vinyls - 48 ')
"The thought to use my archives resulted from the necessity, to update my tapes of these memories - which suffered in my studio a damage caused by water -. I have indeed analogue tapes with all recordings I made since 1960, and which I have used or not. While copying this material on CD I felt the need to convert this boring work into creative work. And instead of copying I began to compose with them. "

• Cycle des souvenirs (1995–2000) - cycle of the memories -

Exploitation of the concept 2 (installation with 6 CD and 4 video projectors) - (duration: endless)
"To use the memories is not new to me, who are always backdue regarding the autobiographies.What is different here is to manage together as well the sound as the picture. In the same way as I am a sound taker-composer, I am a here a picture taker-composer.
Also the cycle of the memories means that all components are structured in cycles, which produce random encounters by their overlay. Therefore everything is rotating. "

• Archives Génétiquement Modifiées (2000)

Exploitation of the concepts 3 - Genetically Modified Archives (memorized sounds) - (25')
"While listening to my recordings from the seventies I suddenly felt the need, without nostalgia and without allegiance on the past, to make new from it. Also I took very large freedom and easiness concerning the concepts while exploiting them. Indeed, if I speak of it, the question is not to make recognizable the concept, as that was usual at that time, rather to recover this idea thirty years later, how it rubs against the other earlier experiences, how it deforms or takes differently form. Or disappears. Perhaps I like also to use the word „exploitation“ in a provocative sense - although a little frivolously - as a concept. Also I claim the right to use my ideas exactly the same way as my sounds. I listen and I make from it a present that is rich of memory.Thus these archives are fundamentally and even perhaps genetically modified."

• Tautologies et Environs (2000–2001) - Tautologies and environments -

Exploitation of the Concepts 4
For 14 sound-amplified instruments and memorized sound (25 ')
The Exploitation of concept 1. 3 and 4 use the same elements for the memorized material, but differently assembled and deeply changed. Here the composition for orchestra, using the ideas of the tautology, gives a completely new aspect to the memorized sound. Also one encounters as new the idea of the tautology used in the composition for orchestra, particularly if one refers to the earlier Tautologos."

• Exploitation of the concept of the Autobiography

"Since the beginning I composed as many works for instruments or orchestra as electroacoustic or acousmatic pieces. In other words and, in order to approach more precisely my topic, I would speak here only of the electroacoustic pieces or those developed with technology. First unconsciously, then more and more aware came up to me that I worked on the field of the autobiography. Thus I can only retrospectively speak about the time that led me to this concept. This happened about 1962, while I worked on the project of an electroacoustic piece: Hétérozygote. I thus want to try to explain, how significant the simple gesture was to go out from the studio searching sounds outside. I went out with portable utensils, which were my property, i.e. with my microphones and my tape recorder. This was my equipment, and it was I.Whether one wants or not, I was here in an original situation of presence and instrumental recognition making of me without being conscious, a manufacturer of the autobiography. I was present, I held my microphone, I put on my tape recorder as soon as I considered it was good, I took the sound that occurred front of me at the time I decided. This sound was my choice, my moment of the life stored on my equipment.
In other words, should the last sentence not be clear, this compositional gesture in the recognition of the even indistinct sound, recognizing the found object as the first condition of an emotional attitude, was the inevitable introduction of the composer’s present in real time and thus as an autobiographer. "
In this sense were realized the radio compositions for the German broadcasts Südwestfunk and Hessischer Rundfunk

Hessischer Rundfunk

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Discography

• Acousmatrix

Petite symphonie intuitive pour un paysage de printemps (1973-74)

Strathoven (1985)

Presque rien avec filles (1989)

Hétérozygote (1963-64)

BVHAAST 9009 Acousmatrix 3 - 1990

• Unheimlich schön

Unheimlich schön (1971)

Coll. Cinéma pour l'oreille

Metamkine MKCD008 1993

• L'Escalier des aveugles

Patajaslotcha (1984)

L'Escalier des aveugles (1991)

Xavier Legasa / Donatienne Michel-Dansac / Michel Musseau (song)

Ensemble Le Banquet, Dir. Olivier Dejours

Ina-grm ina c 2008/Musidisc 201302 - 1993

• Presque rien

Music promenade (1964-69)

Presque rien n°1 - le lever du jour au bord de la mer (1967-70)

Presque rien n°2 - ainsi continue la nuit dans ma tête multiple (1977)

Presque rien avec filles (1989)

Ina-grm 245172 - 1995

• Piano-piano

Suite pour piano (1952)

Antisonate (1953)

Suite hétéroclite (1955)

Visage I (1956)

Fragments du journal intime (1980-82)

Comme une fantaisie dite des réminiscences (1989-91)

Christine Lagniel / Michel Maurer (Piano)

Auvidis Montaigne MO 782110 - 1997

• Cellule 75

Cellule 75 (1975)

Place des Abbesses (1977)

Chris Brown (Piano), William Winant (Perc.)

Tzadik USA - TZ 7033 - 1997

• Interrupteur / Tautologos III

Interrupteur (1967)

Tautologos III (1970)

Ensemble de musique vontemporaine de Paris, Dir. Konstantin Simonovitch

Blue Chopsticks USA BC1, distrib. France : Chronowax – 1999

• Chansons pour le corps - Et si tout entière maintenant

Chansons pour le corps

Elise Caron (Song), Carol Mundinger / Sylvain Frydman (Clar.), Christine Lagniel (Perc.), Michel Maurer (Piano.), Michel Musseau (Synthesizer)

Et si tout entière maintenant (1986-87)

Symphonic story. (Prix Italia 1987) – Text by Colette Fellous

Anne Sée (Voice), Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, Dir. Yves Prin.

Mode Records USA MODE 81 - 1999

• Danses Organiques cinéma pour l’oreille

Danses organiques (1971-73)

Elica mpo-3340 - 1999

vinyle LP Elica 4VL 3704 – 2003

• Far-West news

Far-West news episode n°1 (1998-99)

Histoire du plaisir et de la désolation (1979-81)

Nouvel orchestre de France, Dir. Michael Luig.

Signature, France ASIN : B00005Q4KU – distribution Harmonia Mundi – 1999

• Cycle des souvenirs - Exploitation des concepts n°2

Cycle des souvenirs - Exploitation des concepts n°2 (1995-2000)

Blue Chopsticks USA BC8, distrib. France : Chronowax - 2002

• Tautologos and other early electronic works

Étude aux accidents (1958)

Étude aux sons tendus (1958)

Visage V (1958/59)

Tête et queue du dragon (1959-60)

Tautologos I (1961)

Tautologos II (1961)

Und so weiter for piano and tape (1965-66)

(works from 1959 to1966) EMF and GRM

Gérard Frémy (Piano)

EMF CD 037 - 2003

• Comedia dell'amore 224 (1992)

Performers and composers : Jean-Jacques Birgé

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, Francis Gorgé, Bernard Vitet

Bernard Vitet

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 and Luc Ferrari

Un Drame musical instantané "Opération Blow up" GRRR 2020 - distrib. France : Orkhêstra / Les Allumés du Jazz - 1992

• Impro-micro-acoustique (2001)

Performers and composers : Noël Akchoté, Roland Auzet and Luc Ferrari

Blue Chopsticks, USA BC12 - distrib. France : Chronowax - 2004

• Collection

Collection de petites pièces ou 36 Enfilades pour piano et magnétophone (1985)

Jeu du hasard et de la détermination (1999)

Michel Maurer (Piano.), Françoise Rivalland (Perc.).

Les empreintes digitales, France – distribution Abeille Musique (Nocturne) ED13171 – 2004

• Les Anecdotiques

Les Anecdotiques - Exploitation des Concepts N°6 (2002)

SUB ROSA SR 207 – 2004

Grand Prix 2005 Charles Cros In Memoriam

• Archives sauvées des eaux

Archives sauvées des eaux - Exploitation des concepts n°1 (2000)

Version for plastic, Milan 2004. By Luc Ferrari and Erikm

Erikm

eRikm has appeared on the artistic scenes in 1992.His early experience as a musician , and as a visual artist led him to composition and turntables....

Angle Records, Italie CD 0008 – 2004

Grand Prix 2005 Charles Cros In memoriam

• Son mémorisé

Presque Rien N°4 (1990-98)

Promenade symphonique dans un paysage musical ou Un jour de fête à El Oued en 1976 (1976-78)

Saliceburry cocktail (2002)

Sub Rosa, SR252 - 2006

• Far-West news episodes 2 and 3

Far-West news episodes 2 (May 1999)

Far-West news episodes 3 (June 1999)

Blue Chopsticks BC16 CD September 2006

• Et tournent les sons

Et tournent les Sons dans la Garrigue - Réflexion sur l'écriture n°1 (1977)

Archives sauvées des eaux - Exploitation des concepts N°3 (2000)

By the Ensemble Laborintus and Erikm

Erikm

eRikm has appeared on the artistic scenes in 1992.His early experience as a musician , and as a visual artist led him to composition and turntables....

Césaré 06/03/4/2/1 France septembre 2006. Distr. Metamkine

• Les ProtoRythmiques

Les ProtoRythmiques (2007)

EriKm

Erikm

eRikm has appeared on the artistic scenes in 1992.His early experience as a musician , and as a visual artist led him to composition and turntables....

 (Luc Ferrari) and Thomas Lehn

Thomas Lehn

Thomas Lehn is a German-born piano and synthesizer player active in free improvisation and contemporary music.Lehn has recorded with Marcus Schmickler, Keith Rowe, John Butcher, Phil Minton, Phil Durrant, Radu Malfatti, Axel Dörner, Cor Fuhler, Gerry Hemingway and is a member of the electronic...

Room40 RM417/ May 2007

• Didascalies

Rencontres fortuites (2003) for viola, piano and memorized sounds.

Didascalies (2004) for viola and piano

Tautologos III (1969)

By Vincent Royer and Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven

Luc Ferrari facing his tautology – 2 days before the end, a film by Guy Marc Hinant and Dominique Lohlé

Sub Rosa SR261 luc ferrari "didascalies" / cd+ dvd / May 2007

• Sonopsys

Passage pour mimes (1959)

J'ai été coupé (1960-69)

Selbstportrait oder Peinture de sons ou bien Tonmalerei (1996-97)

Sonopsys 4 - Cahiers musique concrète/acousmatique. May 2007

• in OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
  OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
  OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music is a compilation of early electronic music and excerpts from the period of 1948 to 1980. Many included works are essentially experiments with sound, using a variety of non-traditional instruments including homemade circuits, tape ribbon and early...
  
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Ellipsis arts…… EA500-4 USA

• in Asia - Trio d'argent

Madame de Shanghaï (1996)

Michel Boizot / François Daudin Clavaud / Xavier Saint-Bonnet (Flutes)

Musique d'Aujourd'hui 9701 MDA M7 847 – 1997

• in An anthology of noise & electronic music / vol. #2

Visage V (1958-59)

Sub Rosa SR200 – 2003

• in Early modulations : vintage volts

Tête et queue du dragon (1959-60)

Caipirinha CP219 USA - 2000

• in Archives GRM – CD 2/5

Étude aux sons tendus (1958)

Étude floue (1958)

Étude aux accidents (1958)

Ina c 1032(2004) ADD – 750 - 276522

• Chantal, or the portrait of a villager (1977–78)

stereo tape.

in collaboration with Brunhild Meyer.

Digital on-line edition 2008

Room 40

• Archives Génétiquement Modifiées (2000) – mémorized sound
• Société II (1967)

for four soloists and sixteen instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 violoncellos, 1 contrabass. Soloists: 1 piano, 3 percussions.) recording from 1968 by the EIMCP dir. Konstantin Simonovich.

Robot Records, USA

• À la recherche du rythme perdu

for piano and memorized sound. by Wilhem Latchoumia

In Wilhem Latchoumia – piano & electronic sounds

Sisyphe 013

• Madame de Shanghaï (1996)

for 3 flutes and memorized sound

In Manuel Zurria repeat !

Die Schachtel, Zeit C01

• Archives sauvées des eaux - Luc Ferrari with Otomo Yoshihide.

Bonus-track (CD extra) for the first 2000 copies : « Slow landing » Luc Ferrari with Otomo Yoshihide, Camera: Miyaoka Hideyuki and Nishihara Tazz Miyaoka

Disc Callithump CPCD-001

• Labyrinthe de violence

Danse

LP Alga Marghen

Disque vinyle PLANA-F alga027 - 2009

• Sexolidad (1982–83)
• Dialogue Ordinaire avec la Machine (1984)

Elica mpo-4301 – 2009

• INA-GRM Box (2009)

in partnership with La muse en circuit,

contains 10 CD Luc Ferrari’s works for memorized sound as well as film music.

• Chantal (2009)

stereo tape (1977-78)

in collaboration with Brunhild Meyer.

Ohm/Avatar

ohm 051

CD + DVD releases

• Didascalies

Rencontres Fortuites (2003) pour alto, piano et SM.

Didascalies (2004) pour alto et piano

Tautologos 3 (1969)

by Vincent Royer, viola and Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, piano

+ DVD

Luc Ferrari face à sa tautologie - 2 jours avant la fin

Film by Guy-Marc Hinant and Dominique Lohlé

French version, with English sub-titles, recorded while the rehearsal of Tautologos III.

"that would be Luc’s last one in this beginning of July 2005.

Sub Rosa SR261 luc ferrari "didascalies" / cd+ dvd / mai 2007

This Box was rewarded with the « Coup de Coeur Charles Cros - musique contemporaine printemps 2008 » and the Grand Prix from the festival "Filmer à tout prix", Brussels in 2008

• Presque rien avec Luc Ferrari

Film by Jacqueline Caux and Olivier Pascal – with Elise Caron – eRikm – Christof Schläger . 2004.

ELICA VPO-4290

Robot Records 2008

Forced Exposure; Métamkine, Fr.; Die Schachtel, It.; Mimaroglu Music Sales; Die Stadt, Germ.; A-Musik, Cologne, Germ.; Empreintes Digitales, Montreal Can.; Disk Union, Tokyo, Jap.

• Les Archives sauvées des Eaux

Luc Ferrari with Otomo Yoshihide.

« Slow Landing » Luc Ferrari with Otomo Yoshihide, Camera: Miyaoka Hideyuki and Nishihara Tazz Miyaoka

Disc Callithump CPCD-001

Recent book releases

• Presque rien avec Luc Ferrari

book by Jacqueline Caux, translation in Japanese by Ryosuke Shiina (Tokyo, 2006)

• Sonopsys N° 4 Luc Ferrari

Cahiers Musique Concrète / Acousmatique, édité par Licences (ouvrage bilingue)

By Alexandre Yterce and Florence Gonot - www.revuelicences.com

• Luc Ferrari Portraits polychromes

augmented edition by GRM / INA

External links

• Luc Ferrari official website of the composer.
• Luc Ferrari official blog of the composer.
• Paristransatlantic.com: Luc Ferrari Interview by Dan Warburton, July 22, 1998
• Otherminds.org: Luc Ferrari
• The online music review La Folia has review articles about Ferrari: "Presque Fin": Ferrari Almost Final and Luc Ferrari, Head and Tail