Pierre Henry

Pierre Henry

Nacimiento : 1927-12-09, Paris, France

Muerte : 2017-07-05

Historia

Pierre Georges Albert François Henry (9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) was a French composer and pioneer of musique concrète. Henry was born in Paris, France, and began experimenting at the age of 15 with sounds produced by various objects. He became fascinated with the integration of noise into music, now called noise music. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, and Félix Passerone at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1938 to 1948. Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked at the Club d'Essai studio at RTF, which had been founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1943. During this period, he wrote the 1950 piece Symphonie pour un homme seul, in cooperation with Schaeffer. It is an important early example of musique concrète. Henry also composed the first musique concrète track to appear in a commercial film: the 1952 short film Astrologie ou le miroir de la vie by Jean Grémillon. Henry also scored numerous additional films and ballets. Two years after leaving the RTF, he co-founded, with Jean Baronnet, the first private electronic music studio in France: Studio Apsone-Cabasse. Among Henry's works is the 1967 ballet Messe pour le temps présent, a collaboration with composer Michel Colombier and choreographer Maurice Béjart that debuted in Avignon. In 1970 Henry collaborated with British rock band Spooky Tooth on the album Ceremony. In 1997, a Métamorphose: Messe pour le temps présent compilation recording was released that brought together remixes of various compositions of Henry's by electronic artists Fatboy Slim, Coldcut, Saint Germain, The Mighty Bop and Dimitri From Paris. Composer Christopher Tyng was heavily inspired by Henry's Psyché Rock when writing the theme to the popular animated cartoon show Futurama. The theme is so reminiscent of Psyché Rock that it is considered a variation of the original which is a piece by Henry and Michel Colombier released in 1967. The track consists of bells, flutes, brass and rock ensemble (guitar, bass, drums) and electronic music. It is strongly inspired by The Troggs song Wild Thing (written by Chip Taylor) and Louie Louie, written by Richard Berry and first popularized by The Kingsmen. Henry died on Wednesday 5 July 2017 at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Paris, at the age of 89. Source: Article "Pierre Henry" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Pierre Henry

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Law Breakers
Original Music Composer
A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.
Un retablo para Romeo y Julieta
Music
A psychedelic combination of Shakespeare, rock & roll and Catholic symbolism in the shape of a Cuban ballet.
Giraglia
Sound
In 1963, Maurice Fleuret wrote of Thierry Vincens: “...Vincens' cinematographic projections are more than a sumptuous abstract cinema number, more than a visual illustration of an interior world whose music echoes to us, [...] a lyrical synthesis whose persuasive force is unique in the history of art nouveau. ” GIRAGLIA was produced in 1968, set to a composition by Pierre Henry.
The Love Life of an Octopus
Music
An octopus slithers into a narrow crack near the shore; we see its eye up close. It feeds on a crab. In spring it's time to mate. A male grabs a female; he inserts his third arm in her respiratory cavity. We watch another pair: a larger female is the aggressor here. Mating is repeated over hours and days. The female releases strings of fertilized eggs that hang from the roof of a nest. She guards her spawn for a month, fanning the strings to circulate water for oxygen and cleanliness.
Soy leyenda
Music
Primero estalló la guerra atómica, fueron fabricadas nuevas máquinas, aparecieron pájaros muertos. En 1999, comenzó una guerra bacteriológica, hubo tormentas de arena y plagas de langostas gigantes; el tejido humano fue transformado y surgió un nuevo ser, antes legendario, ahora real: el vampiro. Solo Robert Neville, el último hombre sobre la Tierra, permanece sin contaminar, viviendo en lucha constante con los nuevos pobladores del planeta.
Marie et le Curé
Original Music Composer
A priest succumbs to the charms of his lovely cleaning lady and decides to find a husband when she finds herself pregnant with her works.
Where the Truth Lies
Music
A young veterinarian falls in love with a strange woman, a former explorer who might be a Voodoo priestess, after he comes to help her ailing cheetah. She begs him to return to Africa with her, but he doesn’t want to leave his wife. Soon his wife finds herself plagued by a series of bizarre accidents.
Pátio
Original Music Composer
A man and a woman are laying on a chess-like patio. Both are trying to reach each other in the best way they can. However, for some odd reason they don't get on their feet, they don't talk to each other, and the only sounds heard are voices coming from a radio and strange sounds that seem to indicate something's about to happen.
Pierre Henry: The Art of Sounds
Himself
Experimental French composer Pierre Henry, one of the pioneers of musique concrete, is the subject of this documentary that traces his development of a new sound that shocked the music world. During the 1950s, the radical innovator and his colleague Pierre Schaeffer created a unique form of music based on electronically modified environmental noises. Special features include a concert recorded in Paris and the short film "Le Candidat."