It wonders about this first sentence; initially 1929. It wrote many autobiographies in which it falsified the dates. The writing makes it insane, one should not require that of him. And as it did not dare to be renovated it was aged. There are thus heaps of false dates which run, that amused it at the time. Maintaining that amuses it much less! Then, Born In Paris. It is questioned: to have been born in Paris! It wonders what it would have been if it had been born in the small village from his father, in Corsica. It wonders what it would have been if it had been born in Marseilles, the town of his mother. It wonders what it would have been if it had been born in Italy, the country of its ancestors. And for this reason, it does not have any answer. Luc Ferrari completed work which deviates more or less from the pure musical concerns, and of which some call upon a meeting between various branches of what could be the same tree, the problem being to try to express, through different means, ideas, feelings, intuitions which pass; to observe the daily newspaper in all its realities, which they are social, psychological or sentimental. This being able to express itself

the form of texts, of instrumental writings, electroacoustics compositions, reports, films, spectacles, etc... At the same time as it makes studies of piano to the academy and other schools, it starts to compose since 1946. It attends Darmstadt since 1952 and its instrumental works are played in Darmstadt, Paris and in Cologne "Musik der Zeit". It enters to the Group of Concrete music in 1958 and remains there until 1966. Collaboration with Pierre Schaeffer with the creation of the Group of Musical Research (1958-59): teaching activities, series of emissions on the concrete music (1959-60), direction of search and artistic for a small unit whose head is Konstantin Simonovich; individual and overall instrumental research (1961-62). Musical illustration, sound recording and corealisation of a series of emissions of television, "Each country celebrates its great man" (1965). Professor in Rheinische Musikschule of Cologne (1964-65). Realize in 1965 and 1966, with Gerard Patris, a series of emissions of television on the contemporary music, "the Great Repetitions" (Olivier Messiaen, Edgar Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hermann Scherchen, Cecil Taylor). Teach the experimental music in Stockholm (1966). One year stay in Berlin, invited by the DAAD (1967). Musical person in charge at the House for the Culture for Amiens (1968-69). In 1972, it creates the studio "Billig", modest workshop of electroacoustic. In 1982, it melts Association "the MUSE in Circuit", studio of electroacoustic composition and radiophonic creation from which it separates in 1994. In 1995, retrospective of its works in a Confused Course through the Netherlands. In 1996 it builds its own home-studio which it names Atelier post-billig. In 1997, lecture tour and concerts to California. In 1998, it travels in American south-west like hunter of its peddler and carries out a series of radiophonic compositions entitled Far-West News, produced by Radio Dutchwoman NPS. In 1972, Karl Sczuka-Preis for its Hörspiel Portrait-Spiel, (Production Südwestfunk, Baden-Baden). For his composition And if very whole now, Luc Ferrari obtained in 1987 the Italia Price, in 1988, again the Price Karl Sczuka for his hörspiel I lost himself or Labyrinth Portrait, in 1989 the Great national Price of the Ministry for the Culture, in 1990 the Price of the Koussevi

r). Teach the experimental music in Stockholm (1966). One year stay in Berlin, invited by the DAAD (1967). Musical person in charge at the House for the Culture for Amiens (1968-69). In 1972, it creates the studio "Billig", modest workshop of electroacoustic. In 1982, it melts Association "the MUSE in Circuit", studio of electroacoustic composition and radiophonic creation from which it separates in 1994. In 1995, retrospective of its works in a Confused Course through the Netherlands. In 1996 it builds its own home-studio which it names Atelier post-billig. In 1997, lecture tour and concerts to California. In 1998, it travels in American south-west like hunter of its peddler and carries out a series of radiophonic compositions entitled Far-West News, produced by Radio Dutchwoman NPS. In 1972, Karl Sczuka-Preis for its Hörspiel Portrait-Spiel, (Production Südwestfunk, Baden-Baden). For his composition And if very whole now, Luc Ferrari obtained in 1987 the Italia Price, in 1988, again the Price Karl Sczuka for his hörspiel I lost himself or Labyrinth Portrait, in 1989 the Great national Price of the Ministry for the Culture, in 1990 the Price of the Koussevitzky Foundation for his symphonic part Histoire of the pleasure and desolation and, in 1991 for the second time the Italia Price for his hörspiel the Staircase of the blind men