Weirdness of the week: Every Satie record played at once
mainFrom our partner site, MusicalToronto:
A sound artist named Brendan Landis, who records as Hey Exit, has created a fascinating piece by combing every known recording of Satie’s Gymnopedie 1. As each plays at the same time, the attention shifts to the variations in tempo and phrasing, and creates a dense sound with rounded edges. Wild stuff!
Listen here (you won’t regret it).
© Paul Helm/ Lebrecht Music&Arts
Somehow I had hoped that the 21st century would be more interesting than this…
I think Satie would have been highly amused. And impressed that I did not stop to listen all the way to the end.
Not as impressed as that up-and-coming indie film director somewhere, who’s just found the perfect soundtrack for that heroin induced dream sequence he’s writing in the script.
Beautiful! It sounds like Anthony Phillips (or many Anthony Phillips’s) in a particularly bucolic mood.
What a stupid idea. Great music already has to suffer so many depredations by philistines, and now this …
Can’t remember having been asked for permission for BIS’s 3 recordings of it.