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My favorite Satie piece is “Vexations” [1], a short clip that the composer ostensibly wished to be played 840 times in a row.

As a little art project, I recently made a version for MS-DOS and AdLib [2] that starts with a piano-like sound and gradually distorts the timbre every repetition by flipping a random bit in the AdLib’s registers.

I never made a recording of it because I was envisioning it as an “if you got to see it in person, cool” type of thing, but I should probably go back and do that

[1] https://youtu.be/7GoV2psW-OE

[2] http://constcast.org/vexations.html

A Strangeloop talk by Mouse Reeve, years ago, looked at the Markovian structure of "Gnossiennes" then made an endless version. A beautiful talk and really cool music website.

Music website: https://gnossiennes.mousereeve.com/ (slightly better on Desktop).

Talk: https://youtu.be/ANYMii3Sypg

Abstract: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2019/minimalist-piano-forever...

Satie's Gymnopedies have been on our household's "calming & focused" playlists for years now. Highly recommend, and I look forward to hearing these new works, too.

I assume these are well-vetted as real discoveries, but can't help but think of "Albinoni's" Adagio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_in_G_minor

Still looking forward to listening!

I always thought furniture music was such a pragmatic description of his work. Every few years I make a half-hearted attempt to learn Gymnopedie 1 on guitar but can never seem to follow through.

I listened to this recording yesterday and thought the pieces were unfamiliar but didn't realize they were newly rediscovered.

The pieces were more conventional than I was expecting. I like the album and the music, it's a different side to Satie more reflective of the era, provides some context and perspective on his works.

my go to chill out music for the past 10 years

I highly recommend

Eric Satie's complete piano works on 2 x CD

has all the music from this wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Erik_S...

I tried to play some of these on classical guitar and failed dismally.

Are the new scores available anywhere?

tharaud rules the piano, i like what he did with the goldberg stuff

music leaks from the 20th century, neat

It’s AI

I'm still waiting to hear 4'33" by John Cage and it's allegedly very popular

Major Hari Seldon vibes

Ian Penman wrote a fantastic biography of Satie, published earlier this year. Worth a read! He was a profoundly strange and fascinating person: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781635902532/erik-satie-three-piec...