‘My mind was wearing away’: what it feels like to take on the ultra-marathon of music
A performance of Erik Satie’s piano piece Vexations can last 20 hours. But is it avant-garde art, or a misunderstood joke?
840 encores: Igor Levit and Marina Abramović plan a mammoth 20 hour Erik Satie performance
From one page of sheet music, Russian-German pianist Igor Levit will create a near day-long event. In his upcoming ...
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Erik Satie's Vexations or Playing the Unplayable...
Vexations...is arguably the first ever piece of conceptual art. Erik Satie's Vexations is a single page of music whose instruction from the composer is for it to be ...