PINK FLOYD AND CINEMA: chronicle of a difficult relationship

The usual cultural meetings organized by the Library of the Vespucci-Colombo Institute continue.
The event is organized in collaboration with Erasmo Libri. The event poster was created by the student of the institute Giada Lambertucci, of the 4C class of the Art High School.
The music of Pink Floyd is generally recognized for its strong cinematic vocation, yet its relationship with cinema has been difficult and controversial from the beginning. Despite the naturalness with which it seems to adapt to the images of a film, every time the historic English band was asked to produce original music for the cinema, various difficulties of different types and degrees emerged. Marco Lenzi, in his meeting, tries to shed light on this problematic relationship by analyzing numerous scenes taken from six films for which Pink Floyd have composed original music: “Speak” (1967) by John Latham, “The committee” (1968) by Peter Sykes, “The body” (1970) by Roy Battersby, “More” (1969) and “La vallée” (1972) by Barbet Schroeder, and “Zabriskie point” (1970) by Michelangelo Antonioni.

Marco Lenzi was born in Livorno in 1967. Musician and teacher, he has been involved in contemporary music by conducting intense seminar activities throughout Italy and publishing the first Italian monograph on Morton Feldman (Le Sfere Ricordi/Lim 2009) and various writings in specialized magazines (“Musica/Realtà”, “MusikTexte”, “Quaderni di Octandre”, “Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine”, “Tetraktys”). His compositions, published by Ars Publica, have been performed in Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Spain, and the United States by soloists and ensembles such as Giancarlo Cardini, Livia Rado, Dario Calderone, Francesco Gesualdi, Ilaria Baldaccini, Riccardo Vaglini, Collettivo Rituale, L’Arsenale, Tubi&Corde, Ensemble Conductus, Bread Crumbs. He has collaborated with various rock musicians, including Anthony Reynolds and Virginiana Miller. He has been teaching in public schools for over thirty years.

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