Think of it as a musical mandala. Eric Satie’s “Vexations” is a one-page piece of music — a brief gem of melancholy tune and chord progression — for which the composer left some unusual instructions: ...

Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins us later in the hour to play music by Maurice Ravel. First we hear from Thibaudet's latest CD offering, music by another Frenchman, Eric Satie. We hear Gnossiennes ...

Eric Satie was one of classical music's most eccentric composers. He had 12 identical gray velvet suits, and gave unusual titles to some of his pieces, such as "Dried-up Embryos," or "Four Flabby ...

Furniture music is an interactive experience that meshes furniture placement with soundscape manipulation; a terrible play on words based on Eric Satie's concept of musique d’ameublement; and an ...

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