In Perspective | Episode Nine
Cy Twombly
&
Pierre Henry

A special In Perspecitve episode dedicated to Cy Twombly and the French composer Pierre Henry featuring a podcast by the music journalist and radio host, Francesco Adinolfi, and the video performance of Le Voile d’Orphée (1953) on the loudspeaker orchestra of Pierre Henry/ Studio Son/Ré held at Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio in Rome on the occasion of the first edition of Un/veiled (2022).

Pierre Henry, Le Voile d’Orphée (1953)

Nicolas Vérin – Sound direction

on the loudspeaker orchestra of Studio Son/Ré

Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome

Ph. Valerio Polici

The episode nine guides the viewer to explore the connection between Cy Twombly and the French composer Pierre Henry, pioneer of musique concrète and electronic music. In 1953 Cy Twombly was struck by one of Pierre Henry’s concert, Le Voile d’Orphée (1953), that he heard on the radio, and drew inspiration from it for the paintings Treatise on the Veil (1968) and Treatise on the Veil [Second Version] (1970).

The podcast Pierre Henry. The Poetics of Noise, especially thought for this episode by the music journalist and radio host Francesco Adinolfi, takes the audience to discover the figures and the works of Pierre Henry and his friend and collaborator Pierre Schaeffer as well as their legacy in contemporary music. A video of the performance of Le Voile d’Orphée directed by Nicola Vérin on the loudspeaker orchestra of Studio Son/Ré will be available on view and a special playlist dedicated to Pierre Henry and his legacy will be the soundtrack of the full episode.

In Perspective: Episode Nine