Very grateful for this video. Good friend participated in a similar even in Miami and now i know what she was doing. PLUS Satie is nourishing music, if a person can calm down for a minute.

i'm playing this piece tonight at 2 in the morning! good lord!

i'm currently on the hour and a half if listening to this video on repeat. Going to try till 7 am (it's 2 :30 am now)

What an extraordinary performance! (I wish I could have been there.)

I've got a midi version of Vexations that plays for 18hrs. When I play it at 4x or 8x speed it isn't morbis at all, it's quite jolly. I think a pianist should try that, just a couple of cycles.

i played this yesterday jaja

lol leekspin! gotta love it

@COCOONFABULA en effet c est une experiance hors du commun , je pense que c est vraiment quelque chose a faire au moins une fois dans sa vie

Why thank you seppojustnow - I'm glad you were able to see it. Satie is good, isn't he. You should hear Relache if you've not already - plus see the film Entr'acte which uses that music and in which Satie appears. Toodle pip.

Ce qui est terrifiant c'est de jouer les 840 fois seul sans relais o_0

Andy Warhol, in one of his initial experiments in film, did a film of different people sleeping. They weren't doing anything else, just sleeping. The piece was many hours long and I believe this song was looped as the sound track. I think to understand what this particular piece is about you'd have to do more research on Andy Warhol and his film 'Sleep'.

Thanks for your comment BlueDancer - at least art still has the power to produce violent emotions - it's obviously affected you greatly enough to spew forth about it. As for being easy to perform - it's rather deceptive actually. I can play it myself, but the similarity between the 2 variations is such that with repetition it becomes quite confusing, and especially after 20 times on the trot, let alone 840, liable to hypnotise you.

Merci pour votre commentaire fanakaulitz - vous ne pouvez pas endurer toutes les 18 heures? Je dois avouer que c'était un peu terrifiant veiller toute la nuit...! ;-)

I think you're right aryul - I think he was joking because as you say he did have a weird sense of humour. He would write things in his scores that would have nothing whatever to do with the music or how it should be played, but were just silly or poetic. The last laugh is probably definitely on us for enduring it, but what the hell?

daar zie ik de humor wel van in..

Dang that would put me to sleep in the first 10 min. LOL LOL zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

still doesn´t make sense to me. What is the idea of this piece. A meditation or something? Who can tell me? I really want to learn and understand

Bueno ya se que este evento pasó hace más de medio año. Pero quiero decirte que me pareció una farsa completa el hecho de que los boletos estaban agotados desde antes de que iniciara el mismo Festival. Fue poca o nula la difusión de las fechas de venta de los boletos.

Inspector Remorse if only I knew what you meant... eh? what leek girl?

No, I haven't - who and why and what? Tell all.

how querky.

The leek spin had energy, this I find just boring. Love Nyman's and Satie's music in general, though, so no disrespect.

Oh that makes me sick.... I just ask myself WHY? And the song is f***ingly morbid, i completely do not understand, why the hell they played same horrible and easy to perform-song for 18 hours??? Instead of camera, has been someone watching the exhibition of that? I think that this could be used as a kind of torture in medieval ages....... :D Oh no sorry, it's really interrestibng, but i really cannot say that's "amazing"... :D Have a nice day people :o)