Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death
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·June 28, 2025eitally
Satie's Gymnopedies have been on our household's "calming & focused" playlists for years now. Highly recommend, and I look forward to hearing these new works, too.
TZubiri
Did you perchance find these originally on youtube? They're very popular on their autosuggestions.
williamdclt
They’re hugely famous, I don’t think most people’s first encounter with them would be as YouTube suggestions
andrepd
Indeed, they feature in a number of media. I think I first heard them in the Mother 3 game!
ithkuil
There are a lot of interpretations of Satie's work and a random playlist on YouTube may not necessarily get you the best performers, also because not everybody has the same tastes in music.
My favourite interpretation of Satie's is played by Reinbert de Leeuw. He plays very slow, playing just a bit behind the beat, with astonishing precision and expressiveness.
jiehong
They’ve been a bit everywhere for decades I think. Like I think in movies such as The Royal Tenenbaums of Wes Anderson.
I think I heard it more or less since childhood.
viraptor
It got very popular with the raise of lofi. The Gymnopedie samples are everywhere.
kaonwarb
I assume these are well-vetted as real discoveries, but can't help but think of "Albinoni's" Adagio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_in_G_minor
Still looking forward to listening!
aduffy
Major Hari Seldon vibes
reify
my go to chill out music for the past 10 years
I highly recommend
Eric Satie's complete piano works on 2 x CD
has all the music from this wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Erik_S...
I tried to play some of these on classical guitar and failed dismally.
A Strangeloop talk by Mouse Reeve, years ago, looked at the Markovian structure of "Gnossiennes" then made an endless version. A beautiful talk and really cool music website.
Music website: https://gnossiennes.mousereeve.com/ (slightly better on Desktop).
Talk: https://youtu.be/ANYMii3Sypg
Abstract: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2019/minimalist-piano-forever...