Venue:
Studio Bergen
Nøstegaten 119
5011 Bergen
+47 55 30 86 80

SAT 01. OCTOBER
20:00: PIERRE HENRY

Tickets to Pierre Henry will be ready in a couple of days. In the meantime we recommend acquiring either weekend pass or festival pass which both grant access to the concert.

Born in 1927, Pierre Henry is one of the founding fathers of musique concrete. He never went to school due to ill health, but enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire aged 10 and studied under Olivier Messiaen and Nadia Boulanger (who also taught Quincy Jones and Philip Glass).

Henry rejected traditional instruments to make music out of electronics and the world around us. 1950′s Symphonie pour un homme seul is a 12-movement work composed entirely from the sounds of the human body. Interested in the idea of pop as a pagan ritual, Henry collaborated with English prog band Spooky Tooth on the rock mass Ceremony (1969). In 1964 Henry had a pop hit with ‘Psyche Rock’. It has since been remixed by Fatboy Slim and William Orbit, sampled countless times, and used as the basis for the soundtrack to the cartoon Futurama. He worked with US trio Violent Femmes on their Freak Magnet album, which languished unreleased for three years after they were dropped by their label.