Enrico Fulchignoni - Orient-Occident: images d’une exposition, music by Iannis Xenakis

Enrico Fulchignoni [1913 - 1988] Orient-Occident: images d’une exposition [1959] a huge thank you to Brice Fournier for the English translation! “The first version of Orient-Occident is music for the film realised by Enrico Fulchignoni, commissioned by the Unesco and performed in Cannes on May 1960. The film was about an exhibit in 1958-59 organised by Vadim Eliséeff, curator of the Parisian museum ’Musée Cernuschi’, which showed sculptures and other objects from Asia, Europe and Egypt and highlighted the relationships between East (Orient) and West (Occident). The subtitle of the film is Images d’une exposition (’Pictures at an exhibition’, probably a reference to Mussorgsky). In the film, a spoken text describes these relationships, a text that, if we trust the closing credits of the film, was written by Pierre Henry.“ Makis Solomos. Orient-Occident. From the film version to the concert version. Iannis Xenakis: Das elektroakustische Werk, 2006, Germany. p. 118-134. Enrico Fulchignoni - Director Pierre H