The first 840-repeat performance of Vexations was organised by John Cage in 1963, with 12 pianists taking turns, and took 18 hours. Admission was $5, and audience members who left early received a nickel refund for every 20 minutes attended. By the end of the concert, there was only one person in the audience left from the very beginning of the concert. After the last chord, he stood up and yelled "Encore!" :D

@sewellpercy3179

5 жыл бұрын

Typical modern self indulgence and GARBAGE

@davidw.montague5376

5 жыл бұрын

Too true and three cheers for John Cage. Vexations is truly among the most hilariously tediously sardonic yet profoundly sophisticated, haunting and poignant works ever composed and not surprisingly seldom performed. So just for fun and in order to prove that it's possible, here's an admirably tediously lengthy single-musician-driven performance by Nicolas Horvath, one pianist who appears to have been genuinely inspired by Satie. Bet that worked up an apatite... kzread.info/dash/bejne/mX2hptymftirdKQ.html "Everybody offers to buy one a drink; but nobody ever dreams of offering to buy one a sandwich." - Erik Satie

@charlesdavis7087

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your input!

@christinemarion1321

3 жыл бұрын

Just for the record: Igor Levit performed Vexations during one of his house concerts last year. It took him 16 hours.

@OrchestrationOnline

3 жыл бұрын

@@christinemarion1321 A similar concert staged in Chicago took 9+ hours - the pianist may have been playing a good deal faster.

Love his work, Satie was the reason I got into listening to Classical piano works.

I could listen to Philip Glass talk about Erik Satie all day

@ciararespect4296

2 жыл бұрын

Not on mono. It's only coming through one earpiece ffs

@Lesiga1

11 ай бұрын

That would be preferable to listening to his music. (Glass' , not Satie)

Satie, in my mind the greatest piano solo composer.

Thank you for this performance of: Erik Satie: Things Heard From the Right.

@aleksm.1863

Жыл бұрын

You said it for me.

We went to his house in Honfluer, now a museum dedicated to his life & filled with his music. Definitely a strange fellow, but a genius living his own way and composing wonderful timeless music that we will love forever.

Started learning piano at the start of the COVID 19 lockdown (March 2020 in Wales) and of course Gymnopedie no.1 was one of the first songs I started to learn. I didn't realise how fascinated I would be with Satie himself. Really enjoyed this documentary!

They left out the best story about Relâche: the toast of Parisian society, plus the obligatory music critics, were all invited to a special preview performance of the new ballet. But when they got to the theatre, all they saw was a little sign in the window that read "Relâche" ("closed for repairs"). :D

Satie was and still is the best, no one can never come close to his genius nor music.

@maxmultiverse3906

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah he is definitely up there

@peteklat

4 жыл бұрын

He is cool. Not much else. But I love his coolness.

I think his music is brilliant because it's different from everything else I've heard. Some of it sounds like it's wrong yet it works. Somehow it sounds right. Impressive and very clever.

@annabarham155

6 жыл бұрын

I’ve fallen in love with Satie!! ♥️♥️😍💋✍🏻✨💖🎵🎶

@isntitrich000

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Sometimes I can hear his (probably unintentional) humor in some of the pieces.

I believe that E.S. intuited a way to transcend time, a way to rise above the planes of time and just be. It can be extremely energizing/healing. Music without a beginning, without an end, without bar lines open doors within the mind to new worlds-of-possibilities. Glass discovered this and so did Cage... and a number of others as well. A mystical way to enter "the timeless dimensions" some have called it. It is an ancient skill known by the Theraputi of Greece and Egypt in ages past.

So soothing, it's like when you listen to it you feel like all stress is locked outside.

@davidw.montague5376

5 жыл бұрын

Too true. Usually Satie's works have that pleasantly gentle effect - that is unless the piece requires some lighthearted and hilariously shockingly LOUD POUNDING, as is sometimes the case. But the occasional sardonic pounding just adds to the overall entertaining contrast. Vive Satie!

At last I’ve found an artist who understands me. Kudos on a loving homage.

Things seen to the right and the left, but only heard from the right. Great documentary though

@BloedEnBodem

3 жыл бұрын

Haha. yes bit of a bummer to only have mono

Makes me like Satie even more, good old avant-garde. For the record: (BBC 1992)

He eats his lunch in the space of three minutes, he must have had a lot of brothers and sisters.

@jeremye33

6 жыл бұрын

Ralph Richardson Solid hypothesis.

@sycove1

3 жыл бұрын

No Satie only had one sibling, his brother Conrad,

Good job!!!! soy de Buenos Aires y sería bueno que haya traduccion al habla hispana. Congratulations!!!!

His satirical 'phonometrician' description is hilarious. I remember reading this is Rollo Myers monograph of Satie's life. A singular character indeed.

Erik Satie: Things Heard to the Right

@annabarham155

6 жыл бұрын

Noah Scahill ...and seen to the left 😆

Came across this documentary about Erik Satie which is excellent if one likes Satie as I do.

@davidw.montague5376

5 жыл бұрын

Well in that case and just in case you haven't seen it already, here's another classy art film (by René Clair) that you might enjoy kzread.info/dash/bejne/ealsp8GsY87TaKQ.html featuring Saint Satie himself being canonized in slow motion, a camel-drawn hearse and Karl Marx dancing in a tutu (cool beans!) Watch it if you DARE!

Thank you so much for putting this up!

I find it intolerably obnoxious that Boulez and Messiaen dismiss this composer, one of the most independent, authentic and original of composers. How does it make the World a better place, or even enhance their own positions to be so vicious and vindictive ? What threat does he pose to them ? To speak so disparagingly of a colleague is as widespread today as it has ever been, and it is just as foul. Talent, good manners and friendliness, apparently, often don’t seem to mix ...

@davidw.montague5376

5 жыл бұрын

Too true and very well put. To be Cesar Franck about it, Boulez was a suspiciously well-connected, thoroughly artificially facilitated and quite possibly overrated composer (and politician of "the arts") whose minimal popularity has only decreased over time, while Satie's well founded popularity does nothing but increase. Thus does the unpleasantness of politics within "the arts" often reflect the unpleasantness of politics in general. That stated, at least Messiaen had some actual game. Still, there are no valid excuses for being so boldly mean and inaccurate. Vive Satie! "The artists of our day are becoming businessmen and think like attorneys." - Erik Satie

@GreenTeaViewer

4 жыл бұрын

Boulez was always opinionated, to put it mildly. As for Messiaen, I'm not sure what he actually said of Satie. But musicians are entitled to their opinions.

@FirstGentleman1

3 жыл бұрын

I think Satie is a better composer than Boulez or Messiaen.

@finosuilleabhain7781

3 жыл бұрын

It's very French. And of course composers - Satie included - view others through a prism of their value to their own work. Chill.

@minboogie

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidw.montague5376 Boulez => t.Edison, Satie => Tesla ?

Beautifully done, although I wound have liked for you to have brought up some things about his Rosicrucian period and then his personal religion. Debussy as well as a number of other artists became Rosicrucians. This fraternal organization predates them all. Thanks.

Satie to chyba mój ulubiony artysta.

thanks for this

17.30 "On my scales, a common F# registered 93 kilos. It came out of a fat tenor i also weighed" Priceless! What a unique mind.

Interesting that first de Leeuw plays Gymnopedie no. 1 painfully slow - and then minutes later, a commercial plays the same piece ridiculously fast! :D Joanna MacGregor's tempo is just about right for my ears, though.

Thank you

Loved it, thanks.

Everyone needs to look up the documentary about Henry Darger.

@80yr0ldhands

4 жыл бұрын

Love Darger! Check out Austin Osman Spare while you're at it.

If only one could bring Satie and Marina Abramovic together!

It must not be forgotten that there are two other gymnopédies (that I also play).

Thank you!

If only my left ear could listen to this... it'd be very pleased!

@davidw.montague5376

5 жыл бұрын

Interestingly or not (most likely...not), many violinists and violists suffer from a curiously lopsided form of self-inflicted left-ear-deafness simply as a result of playing their instruments in the Mc-modern, post-viol style. Seriously: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a5hhrKujYrG1pqw.html (The information section of the video may explain much.) Luckily for me, my hearing is A(440)-okay in both ears...because I was lucky enough to be inspired by Satie. "Experience is a form of paralysis (or, in some cases, nerve damage.)" - Erik Satie

@lkym2481

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidw.montague5376 i am super intrigued to learn more about your thoughts on the ergonomics of violin playing but the link is no longer active :

@davidw.montague5376

3 жыл бұрын

​@@lkym2481 I had forgotten about deleting that video. Thank you for reminding me. The ergonomics of violin playing may be an interesting albeit arcane subject. If you'd like to learn about an exceptionally healthy way to play the violin (for all ears), here's a functional link featuring a detailed explanation. kzread.info/dash/bejne/rIipy5SBgsyWoNY.html The information section may seem a little confusing (strictly intentional), but it's fairly sensible. Plus if anyone is bored enough to read all the way to the bottom I included an additional link to another video that visually demonstrates my healthy violin technique. Bottom line: Play the violin any way you want. Just grab a violin and get to know it. I like to play many styles, but I've been inspired to play lots of works by Satie. So if you look through my uploads you'll find all of Satie's Gnossienne, Gymnopedies and also a work entitled Pièces froides, Airs à faire fuir. Stay healthy and happy New Year.

@lkym2481

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidw.montague5376 i googled procession point and found a post you put on a fiddler's forum linking to a previous version of the same video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z3upztd9eaWwqqw.html i certainly agree that health and ergonomics take precedence over tradition! you ever see a transverse flute player? of course that's an awkward position. i really wish they made them easily playable. i've looked up different attachments to make them functional while held similar to a clarinet, but the attachment is ~2000$.. yikes!

@davidw.montague5376

3 жыл бұрын

@@lkym2481 That was admirably diligent of you. You managed (via a very old 'fiddlers' post) to look up my long-dead KZread channel that Google-tube wrongfully and illegally locked me out of (seriously, locked me out of) simply because I wouldn't give the dishonest creeps my phone number. Creepy dishonest Google. Oh well. Anyway, too true about both violins and transverse flutes. That's why I prefer to play recorders. Plus I think recorders have a pleasantly interesting sound: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gKx-r8NsgL21mag.html (From my current, large Gooftube channel-portfolio.) Yes, good idea - think with originality in the name of ergonomic comfort and authentic health. Satie would appreciate that. Have a Satie-empowered day. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lYOly7Wld63To6w.html

Only coming thru one speaker?

42.40 the man talking sounds like the one in THE CHILL OF DEATH by Charles Mingus.. wow

Why was only the first verse of the Vexations performed? Love this doc! Even if my left ear was lonely ;) Planning a festival this year. :D

@ChristopherHalemediacom

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I'm not sure about that decision now. Or about the technicalities of this version. It's very difficult acquiring one's ancient works from the BBC say - this was from Andrew Hugill's personal cd!

@peewee678

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly. This is so wrong. One of the beauties of Vexations is that it starts with the unaccompanied melody which is harmonized after that (again and again and again). This is essential to the piece.

Did Satie even get out of his chair when nature called (for comfort breaks) or to eat or wash? A personal question, but was he in a state of depression that prevented him from moving?

@davidw.montague5376

5 жыл бұрын

In the arts, it may be best not to be too literal. Besides, most fine artists experience bouts of colorful gloominess. For instance, Satie's friend Debussy... “The color of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.” - Claude Debussy

Chris, who is the elderly lady who knew Satie?

What's the name of the piece at 34:14?

I might be wrong. I probably am wrong. But wasn't it Satie who invented the 'avant garde'? Conceptualism, minimalism, pop art etc etc etc. I mean, didn't his ideas pre-date Cubism, Found Art, etc etc by 30 years or so?

@hunlag4700

2 жыл бұрын

Bro, I've been saying this for a while satie is the father of modern music and his furniture music is pretty much video game music.

The edges are the center ...

2:31 video starts

anyone knows the name of the piece at 23:29?

Erik Satie: Things Heard to the Right and not the Left*

what's the piece that plays in the start of the doc? Please let me know

@harpmanb

2 жыл бұрын

Purple Haze, I believe.

Takes 3 months to learn a piece… may i ask what piece is it…?

10:54

what year was this done...???

What is the piece around 34.15?

no sound

Ah France . ! Still , despite so many changes , the true Centre of Culture in Europe . ( et je ne suis pas Francais !! )

what is the first song playing in the background?

@ChristopherHalemediacom

8 жыл бұрын

+nirvanadrainyou101 one of the Gnossiennes.

@nirvanadrainyou101

8 жыл бұрын

+Christopher Hale ok thank you! Ill try and find it

@AnthonyKingUK

8 жыл бұрын

+nirvanadrainyou101 My friend, the piece is called: Erik Satie - Embryons desséchés, II. D'Edriophthalma.

@AnthonyKingUK

8 жыл бұрын

See above for actual piece.

@nirvanadrainyou101

8 жыл бұрын

THank you!

I find much of Satie and Warhol's personalities seem to overlap in viewpoints and philosophy and creativity.

Thanks for uploading this! Awfull audio though

39:25 Nail clippers

Uspud for president

55:20 is that really how the piece is supposed to be played????

@qwertpoiuy430

7 жыл бұрын

CampaignsIlraon yes. it's supposed to sound kind of like a jukebox. and if you listen to the song, it has added sounds that make it sound exactly like a jukebox.

42:04

I'm desperate to find an English version of Uspud. Anyone know of a good place to find one?

@ChristopherHalemediacom

8 жыл бұрын

The text or a recording?? Suggest you contact Andrew Hugill - contact on line I think.

@wormswithteeth

8 жыл бұрын

+Christopher Hale Either. I've spoken with him. He has sent me his own orchestra copy in English. Thanks! 😃

@wormswithteeth

8 жыл бұрын

+Christopher Hale I'm also in dire need of Socrate in English sheet music as well! 😭

can somebody tranlate this in to spanish please?

@amunm.7858

5 жыл бұрын

Pues aprende ingles

@Aaron-hq4bu

4 жыл бұрын

No

Hearing socrates sung by a female sounds so wrong

What's the name of the piece at 34:14?

34:15