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• 1 Win // Jun 11, 2015 at 8:54 pm

  Off-topic, but I wanted to share a link to this nice review of the recent publication of Erik Satie’s writings:

  http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n11/nick-richardson/velvet-gentleman

• 2 Doug // Jun 12, 2015 at 1:12 pm

  Strange! That book came out in the ’90s. I guess it’s a new edition. It is a nice review, though somewhat condescending about Satie’s music.

• 3 Win // Jun 12, 2015 at 8:41 pm

  Well, speaking of time lapses and new editions, I’m typing this while listening to Brian Eno’s Lux from 2012. Eno’s ambient music manifesto was explicitly premised on Satie’s “knife and fork” furniture music, and it’s extraordinary to hear this iteration, grounded in sparse, slow-decaying notes on the piano, while being reminded that it’s doing more or less the same thing Satie did more than 100 years ago.

• 4 Doug // Jun 13, 2015 at 10:13 am

  Yes indeed, although Satie’s furniture music is certainly jauntier than Eno’s!

• 5 Norman Conquest // Jun 24, 2015 at 5:43 pm

  Hahaha. This is so true it hurts! (Thank you for not laughing.)