Luc Ferrari (1929-2005)
Exercices d'improvisation
A la recherche du rythme perdu, pour piano et bande enregistrée

Ciro Longobardi, piano

The Exercises can be dealt with very different genres, styles or languages, from the classic-contemporary to jazz or even folk. The most important thing is to avoid the commonplaces and the accepted cultural bonds. But, in Ferrari’s words, it is necessary to underline that the basic purpose of each exercise is tonal (or quite tonal-modal, I would say), and can be taken as a starting and returning point for the improvisational elabor-ation. Tonality, mode, tempo, are working hypo-thesis with whom it is necessary to have to do “sans pour autant se sentir prisonnier”. Beyond this – the borders I was talking above – “la plus grande liberté est laissée aux réalisateurs d’inventer la musique de leur désir".