‘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?
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Erik Satie's Vexations or Playing the Unplayable...
Erik Satie's Vexations is a single ... and other aspects of his piano writing foreshadowed American-style minimalism and ambient music that takes us from Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina in 1976 to ...
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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 performance of Erik Satie’s piece ‘Vexations’ at London’s Southbank ...
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The extreme simplicity of many of Satie’s pieces ... the world record holder for the longest duration of any piece of music, his Vexations, played in New York in 1963, a 180-note piano piece with ...