MUS 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Furniture Music, Vexations
Document Summary
Penchant for small repetitive units and expressive ambiguity. It"s not obvious one thing or other thing. Early life of satie sports and diversions given composition by satie. Gold the scores as drawing how interesting composer these times about their way of notation. Composed to be performed in the interval of an art opening performance. An exercise is in attention non-attention-can we consciously practice non- attention. Dance performance: lights on audience, wall of reflecting discs, dancers in wheelchairs, fireman on stage pouring water from one bucket into another, dancers undressing /dressing, emerging from audience to stage, balloons released, etc. One pages of music found in satie"s apartment after his death. In order to play the theme 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, and in the deepest silence, be serious immobilities. Only performed for the first time in 1963: payment in inverse relationship to time spent listening.
