On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Farm A Cist wrote:
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quoted 6 lines "Nope, Satie did not call his music 'furniture music'"--this appears t> "Nope, Satie did not call his music 'furniture music'"--this appears to be
> what you mean by your reply ...the book I read must have just made it up,
> I wonder how much of the rest of the book was false then! ;->
>
> I source _The Bride Stripped Bare_, as well as the liner notes to my
> Nonesuch label Satie records, what's yours?
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I jump a little late to this thread, considering I was (and still am) a
Satie fanatic and own a quite bit material about him. Okay, to the point:
Satie didn«t only call his music «furniture«, he also named a piece part
composition just that: «Furniture Music« I don«t have my library (ha
ha...) here, but I«m 100% sure about this and I can check it out. I«ve
heard a recording of the piece, and it is basically pretty sounding
riffs played over and over again. I believe the score doesn«t specify the
number of repeats. Sorry to make this thread longer.
On a related note, it«s interesting how satie didn«t at times consider
himself to be a composer. More of a scientist, I think. Althought his
famous signature was: «Erik Satie, Composer of Music« or something, he
often claimed not be a composer. This is quite interesting, because many
IDM (and other electronic-based) composers have similar attitudes. u-ziq
comes to mind.
Teemu
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