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From Canadian Art online:
"Erik Satie’s Vexations by Martin Arnold and Micah Lexier (181 Bay St)
In this performance-based piece,
two pianists attempt to follow composer Erik Satie’s
cryptic instruction for his 1893 work Vexations:
to replay 840 times this motif, it is advisable to prepare oneself in the most absolute silence,
by some serious immobilities.,
Each pianist will play the work 420 times during the evening,
with each copy of the score being transformed into a folded piece of paper
after each performance.
This promises to invert Satie's theme of inward-turned anxiety into a grand public work."
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