Tag: Gymnopédies
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Gymnopedies Number 1000
Hey Exit has taken every recording of Erik Satie’s Gymnopedies No. 1 and time-stretched them all to be the same time. It’s like an impressionistic deluge of piano, or something by The Caretaker. (via Eric Kleptone) And here it is, timestretched slowly a la Justin Bieber:
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Footprints In The Snow
Surprised to find out last night my partner saying that Gymnopedies by Satie was one of his favourite tunes (surprised because he’s such a Wagner/ Handel freak). Me too, along with Debussy…music impressionism, humour, experimentation, tone/texture, ambience and fighting the dominant classical form and experimenting with non-Western scales…what’s not to like? Also most modern soundtrack…