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Luc Ferrari, Far West News part II. Performer: Eleonora M. Ravasi / INTONAL 2024
FAR-WEST NEWS No. 2 (May 1999) — (29’45”)
September 17 to 24, 1998
from Page to the Grand Canyon
Far-West News 2
“I wanted to see Page and not die. Page is not Venice even if it’s on the waterfront. I didn’t realize that Page was a city. Things do not always happen as they should.
For example, the boat we get on makes such a low-pitched noise that the digital recording loses all its bits; the water does not echo sounds like it does in a Swiss lake; I record over another recording and, furious, I accuse myself of being an amateur. I do another recording of the one that was lost and it’s much better. I feel like a professional.
Several times, we take the wrong road and miss the sites we are looking for. I have to remind myself that I’m here for the sounds and that they are not necessarily in the most beautiful spots. Sometimes they don’t coincide at all.
We visit some friends, microphone in hand. They’re always surprised and so
am I. Even though it’s been the same for years. I like it. My microphone I mean. Always the same one.
In Monument Valley I left my shirt in a Navajo friend’s jeep and we’re too
far away when I realize it. Brunhild lost her cap somewhere around Mexican
Hat and I forgot my camera at Springdale Mayor Philip Bimstein’s place. I went back to get it in the middle of the night. Both were there and we had one last drink.
At the Grand Canyon, sitting on a boulder the microphone on the ground, I eat a sandwich and drink a coke. I don’t worry about what will come out of it musically. It’s a grand moment!”
Luc Ferrari (Read more about the “Far-West-News” here – lucferrari.com)
Eleonora M. Ravasi
Alongside her classical musical degree, Ravasi focused on contemporary and electronic music and specialized in electronic keyboards. Having performed with several ensembles with acoustic and electrified instruments and orchestras in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Lithuania for international events, Ravasi is currently working on the interpretation of sound spatialization of acousmatic works in concert and collaborates with Audior. She focuses on compositional analysis applied to the electroacoustic repertoire and soundscapes.
About the event
Location:
Inter Arts Center, Bergsgatan 29, 214 22 Malmö (Red Room)
Contact:
sylvia [dot] lysko [at] iac [dot] lu [dot] se