Luc Ferrari’s Far-West News as Travel Music: Listening for Exotic Sounds in the Southwestern United States
Luc Ferrari’s Far-West News as Travel Music: Listening for Exotic Sounds in the Southwestern United States
Author(s): Maurice WindleburnSubject(s): Music, French Literature, Theory of Literature, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Luc Ferrari; Travel Literature; Exoticism; Listening; Cultural Entropy;
Summary/Abstract: This article likens experimental composer Luc Ferrari’s musical work Far-West News to late-twentieth-century French travel literature. Made from recordings Ferrari took while journeying through the Southwestern United States, Far-West News is understood here as a “sound hunt” for exotic sounds—a search for a difference in the cultural entropy of late twentieth-century globalism. Ferrari’s piece offers an incentive to think about listening as an integral part of the travel experience.
Journal: Estetyka i Krytyka
- Issue Year: 65/2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 83-96
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English