Sonic Asymmetry

Erik Satie: “Vexations”

エリックサティ：「愁傷」

TIME COMMITMENT: 63 minutes

We are invited on a damp pilgrimage to the netherworlds of confused apathy.  Texturally brilliant despite its deceptive monotony, the composition relies on an industrious bass theme with chords overlaid above it.  It’s a surrealist journey, deambulating eerily cobbled streets emptied of hooves’ misty echo.  As unreal as the stench of horses’ dung, long swept away.

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INFO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexations

A REFLECTION

Mr artist

Builds a world

Not from atoms

But from remnants

Zbigniew Herbert: “Nothing Special”