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coffeesp00ns  ·  3271 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Erik Satie: GymnopĂ©die No. 1 - 1888

You know, when these were first performed they were described as "Furniture music"? They were written as background music, and don't go anywhere musically.

Best background music EVER.

Also, Satie was once told his music had "no shape", so he wrote three pieces in the form of a pear.

... They don't look like a pear at all. I was incredibly disappointed. But then, Satie was a crazy person.





al  ·  3267 days ago  ·  link  ·  

maybe that was the joke, that he was taking the piss of himself saying it had shape when it hadn't, just as he had been criticised