"I came to the world very young, in a very old"
The music of Satie (Honfleur 0.1866-Paris, 1925) is an eccentric, provocative, given as an antidote to conventional formal logic and Wagner.
Legato avant-garde circles, became interested in the Dadaist movement, an evolution of expressionism some of which flowed in a new form of exaggerated realism, in Germany called Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity).
Vexations is one of the greatest compositions for piano by Satie, which uses the structural principle of ceaseless iteration of a given pattern.
One of the eccentricities is that the performer has to play the piece " to himself" (an indication of its unusual and original performer) 840 times in a row, which means that the work hard, according to the time chosen, between 12 and 24 hours!
Use of time continuum , namely the iteration of a theme, has as its goal to eliminate the concept of time (and rhythm), structured as a simple pulse, then "music-only period, the one that will chime musical structure at zero , "or" no time frame events. "
Vexations was composed in 1893, remained unknown until 1963, when the American composer John Cage (at that time influenced by the theory of Eastern Zen), perhaps finding an assonance between meditation and hypnosis induced the circularity of the execution of Vexations , decides to run at the Pocket Theatre in Manhattan, with the collaboration of four pianists who alternated from 6 pm to 12:40 the following day.
short, a piano composition of original and provocative, with a function rather hypnotic, but that " means nothing out of his lifeless package."
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