its been a long while since i've mogged it up...yet i still register as smoking. a lot has transpired. and a lot of shows have been missed by yours truly. i have a broken leg. and alcian blue doesn't exist any longer. there are new bands in the works for 07. including one (hopefully) involving the 'blazing' mogger emily (i.e. the only mog that trusts me.) word indeed. painkillers are fu...
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http://musicweb.hmt-hannover.de/satie/Vexations by Erik Satie is a single page of music that is meant to be performed slowly, on piano, 840 times. I have heard of at least one several-pianist marathon performance of the piece, but I have never heard of one person actually doing it. This website claims that it was done by Armin Fuchs, and they claim to have recordings to prove it. I might just n...
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The liner notes include a dare: “To hear the piece as it was originally designed, simply play the CD on repeat mode 12 times."If one listens to 42 Vexations (1893) without reading about it, then it may take a while before he or she realizes it is one 80-second piano piece repeated by Stephane Ginsburg. That could the nature of our time, with the omnipresence (for those interested) of ambient mu.
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Whenever I think of Erik Satie, I think of a cold Norwegian lake (or something to that effect). Somewhere cold and calm, vast and full of subtle details. There isn't much wildlife, just a bird or two taking off from a lone tree every now and again. What do others think of? [tell me about any Satie piece]
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its been a long while since i've mogged it up...yet i still register as smoking. a lot has transpired. and a lot of shows have been missed by yours truly. i have a broken leg. and alcian blue doesn't exist any longer. there are new bands in the works for 07. including one (hopefully) involving the 'blazing' mogger emily (i.e. the only mog that trusts me.) word indeed. painkillers are fu...
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