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In Perspective 2 | Episode Five
In every line, In every sound

Listen the multiple sounds in Cy Twombly’s works with the musician and composer, Teho Teardo, and the music journalist and radio host, Francesco Adinolfi. A new special episode dedicated to the artist, sound and field recording on In Perspective.

Raibl Lake, 2025

Ph. Teho Teardo

What if we could not only see those marks, those lines traced on the canvas, but could also hear their sounds?

The energy of Cy Twombly’s mark, poetry and sound guided the creation of the previous episodes of In Perspective, culminating in the Episode 5 which focuses on sound in the works of Cy Twombly and the practice of field recording.

The musician and composer, Teho Teardo, through his text Una partitura per Cy Twombly, leads the reader into the hotel room in Augusta, Georgia, where, whilst serving in the military in 1953, the artist would move on weekends to draw in the dark and rediscover the freedom of the line that was lost during the day in the repetitive gestures of a cryptographer.

The sounds evoked in Teardo’s text bring us back to the practice of field recording, which the musician often employs in his compositions, and to the words of the music journalist and radio host, Francesco Adinolfi, who in his podcast Field recording, abitare il suono – especially thought for the episode – guides us to discover the sounds hidden amongst the marks and lines of some of Cy Twombly’s works, before leading the listener to explore the origins and evolution of the practice of field recording and its countless variations.

The episode will be available starting from April 30, 2026.

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Cy Twombly, Detail of Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor), 1994.
The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the artist
© Menil Foundation, Inc.
Photo: Anthony Flores

Exhibitions

The Gift of Drawing: Cy Twombly

An exhibition of works on paper from the donation of the Cy Twombly Foundation to the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston.
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1986
The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the Cy Twombly Foundation
© Cy Twombly Foundation

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Cy Twombly, Study for Treatise on the Veil, 1970
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The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the artist
© The Menil Collection, Houston

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