Wallpaper Music by E. Satie

[moi_not_toi]

does anyone have the music?

[franz_]

I have the same question.
Did you know Satie composed the longest instrumental solowork of the world?
It is a piece for piano with a theme of 52 bars, the tempo marking is 'très lent' and you have to repeat it 840 times with as less as variation possible. The work is called Vexation. They played it, which 6 pianists. I took 18 houres and 40 minutes. The first solopianist who played it was Drury Lane, he could handle it due to salades. In Australia an other solopianist would try it, but after 17 hours they had to stop because the pianist felt in a coma and they had to go to the hospital.

[thalbergmad]

What is wallpaper in French??

That might help me find it.

Thal

[canardroti]

papier peint = wallpaper

[counterpoint]

Perhaps you search for Satie's "VEXATIONS"

Get more infos about this piece here:

https://musicweb.hmt-hannover.de/satie/

(There is also link to the score of the piece in pdf-format on this site)

As I know, there is no special piece named "wallpaper music", but Satie taked about "musique d'ameublement", music, which is part of a room similar to the furniture and the wallpaper.

[allchopin]

Most of Satie's music was 'wallpaper music' - rather an idea of background music, as opposed to a specific piece of this name (correct me if I'm wrong).  Where did you hear of wallpaper music, moi?

[moi_not_toi]

Most of Satie's music was 'wallpaper music' - rather an idea of background music, as opposed to a specific piece of this name (correct me if I'm wrong).  Where did you hear of wallpaper music, moi?

I was reading a book a long time ago about famous composers.
The reason I know it was called Wallpaper Music was because the book said that he encouraged the people listening to it to talk over it, since it was not meant to be heard.
Whenever they stopped, so would he.

[allchopin]

I was reading a book a long time ago about famous composers.
The reason I know it was called Wallpaper Music was because the book said that he encouraged the people listening to it to talk over it, since it was not meant to be heard.
Whenever they stopped, so would he.

Heh, Satie was a strange guy (whom I can relate to).
Brian Eno is sometimes credited for 'inventing' wallpaper music, or 'ambient music'.  However Satie had written essays on it nearly 100 years earlier (though I'm not sure there is a lot to write).  Listen to Satie's 3 famous Gymnopedie's and you will begin to understand Satie's intent - probably by the beginning of the second piece.  They all sound the same.

[Nightscape]

Why is it, that whenever Satie is brought up, it is imperative to mention "Vexations" and the shocking revelation that it is to be played 840 times in succession, thus making it the longest piece ever.

The preface to Vexations is very ambiguously worded, and playing 840 times in succesion is in fact only one possible interpretation of its meaning.  It could also be read along these lines : "If you WERE to play Vexations 840 times, it would require a lot of preperation.  If you were to play it 1840 times, it would require even more preparation.  If you were to play it 8 times, it would require less preparation."

[moi_not_toi]

The question is, does the piece exist or not?
I found quite a few issues in the book that were blatantly not true, I wonder if this is one of them.

[nicco]

Wallpaper music is background music, not a certain piece.

In the midst of an art opening at a Paris gallery in 1902, Ambient music was born. Erik Satie and his cronies, after begging everyone in the gallery to ignore them, broke out into what they called Furniture Music--that is, background music--music as wallpaper, music to be purposely not listened to. The patrons of the gallery, thrilled to see musicians performing in their midst, ceased talking and politely watched, despite Satie's frantic efforts to get them to pay no attention.

Learn to use google.

[moi_not_toi]

Wallpaper music is background music, not a certain piece.

Learn to use google.

So the song is Furniture Music?

Google sucks.
So does Jeeves.

[thalbergmad]

Most of Satie's music was 'wallpaper music'

"toiletpaper music"

Thal

[moi_not_toi]

"toiletpaper music"

Thal

Satie is the Best!!!
(that is after most everyone else [except John Adams])

And yes, he repeats himself a bit, that doesn't make him a S*itty composer.

[nicco]

So the song is Furniture Music?

Google sucks.
So does Jeeves.

lol i guess you dont read english very well.

IT IS NOT A PIECE.

It is music in the background. Any piece could be background music aka wallpaper music. Get it?