In Perspective | Episode Eleven
Un/veiled. Inside the creative process (after Cy Twombly)
Cy Twombly
&
Morton Feldman
Listening station - Triadic Memories (1981) by Morton Feldman
Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome
Ph. Tiziano Ercoli & Riccardo Giancola
The eleventh episode is dedicated to the American Post Avant-Garde composer, Morton Feldman, and his creative connection to Cy Twombly's work.
Morton Feldman met Cy Twombly in person during a trip in Rome, where he had the opportunity to see a series of paintings in process, possibly the 10-part cycle, Fifty Days at Iliam (1978) — inspired by Homer’s Iliad — and now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
During a lecture, the composer recounts that he was particularly struck by the way Cy Twombly had managed to modulate color tones, achieving almost imperceptible shading and variation between paintings. In 1981 Feldman recovered that suggestion and transposed it into sound in the composition Triadic Memories, arriving to the point of translating chromatic modulation into tonal modulation through the use of the piano sustaining pedal, suspended throughout the performance of the 90-minute piece.
The musical composition, Triadic Memories, was one of the main themes of Un/veiled. Inside the creative process (after Cy Twombly). A listening station with the track on a loop was installed at the entrance of the Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio as an essential introduction for the audience of Un/veiled.
The podcast, Morton Feldman. The Whisper of Notes, especially thought for this episode by the music journalist and radio host Francesco Adinolfi, will guide the audience through the composer's career and creative journey, focusing in particular on the genesis of Triadic Memories.
