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Program Info: Pierre Henry - Berlin, Symphony of a Great City silent film by Walther Ruttmann, Germany, 1927
Intermission
Pierre Henry - The Man with the Camera silent film by Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union, 1929
The sound visions of Jonathan Prager and Paul Ramage open a breach in time by combining two experimental silent film films and the music composed for them by Pierre Henry, a pioneer figure in electroacoustic music.
Berlin, Symphony of a Great City and The Man with a Camera are among the most emblematic "urban symphonies" of the European cinematographic avant-garde of the late 1920s. Ballets of trams, horse-drawn carriages and automobiles, the magic of the electricity fairy, everyday work or sport: Walther Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov document the cultural and industrial modernity of their city in the interwar period, the progress and excesses that it symbolizes.
Pierre Henry discovered these two experimental masterpieces very early on. In 1985 and 1993, he composed two great sound poems for them in which he extended the electroacoustic adventure begun in the 1950s with Pierre Schaeffer to develop musique concrète.
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