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What I Am - by Erik Satie (1866-1925)
StoreTags: music theory, philosophy, composer
Author: mookid on December 20 2006 Viewed 4330 times. 18 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Everyone will tell you I am not a musician. That is correct.
From the very beginning of my career I class myself a phonometrographer. My work is completely phonometrical. Take my Fils des Étoiles, or my Morceaux en forme de Poire, my En habit de Cheval or my Sarabandes - it is evident that musical ideas played no part whatsoever in their composition. Science is the dominating factor.
Besides, I enjoy measuring a sound much more than hearing it. With my phonometer in my hand, I work happily and with confidence.
What haven't I weighed or measured? I've done all Beethoven, all Verdi, etc. It's fascinating.
The first time I used a phonoscope, I examined a B flat of medium size. I can assure you that I have never seen anything so revolting. I called in my man to show it to him.
On my phono-scales a common or garden F sharp registered 93 kilos. It came out of a fat tenor whom I also weighed.
Do you know how to clean sounds? It's a filthy business. Stretching them out is cleaner; indexing them is a meticulous task and needs good eyesight. Here, we are in the realm of pyrophony.
To write my Pièces Froides, I used a caleidophone recorder. It took seven minutes. I called in my man to let him hear them.
I think I can say that phonology is superior to music. There's more variety in it. The financial return is greater, too. I owe my fortune to it.
At all events, with a motodynamophone, even a rather inexperienced phonometrologist can easily note down more sounds that the most skilled musician in the same time, using the same amount of effort. This is how I have been able to write so much.
And so the future lies with philophony.
The man was ahead of his time. Check out his tunes, if you haven't already. | |
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12/20/06
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Roshi
I think I have that LP too, Deltasleep! I forgot all about it.
Is it the one with the moogs?
12/20/06
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Fah
just look at those tiny glasses and hat
brilliance at tops!
12/20/06
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papergoose
I've thought that many times, Deltasleep. And not just music. Art, in general.
I'm pretty against SSRI's in most cases... definitely not all. But it should be a short-term thing to help you get over some a hump, coupled with lots of ongoing therapy, not a band-aid.
12/20/06
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papergoose
although the flip-side of that coin is.... the inherent selfishness of that.
Many of those depressed artists might have PREFERRED to live an easy, dull life rather than a painful but artistically productive one. And who are we to question that?
12/21/06
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mookid
Zanf, It appears he was 'funny peculiar' as well as 'funny haha'
I think my old PE teacher was a Gymnopéde
And yes, I did realize this was a joke, When I said ahead of his time, I was referring to his creative output excluding his description of the Victorian version of WaveLab.
(Must go to Maplins and get a Phonometer)
12/21/06
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mookid
Zanf: That dodgy soundcard you had. Wasn't that a Moto Dynamophone ?
12/21/06
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colin
i just downloaded like ten or more albums of erik satie ... such great music .... blah .. thats all
12/21/06
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claudia
where would be a good place to start exploring his work?
edited: Dec 21 2006
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Roshi
Claudia: this was the first CD of his that I heard: link
It's a nice compilation of a lot of the shorter pieces, including the horndog Gymnopaedies. 
12/21/06
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Roshi
The one thing about that CD that I don't like is they break the Gymnopaedies up, but custom playlists can fix that.
12/22/06
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tonearm
Satie is THE man. I love his work, oh yeah. Mad as a teapot too apparently
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