Dr Caroline Potter

Dr Caroline Potter
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'Music not to be listened to: a recently discovered Erik Satie/Max Jacob collaboration'

Abstract: Erik Satie’s concept of musique d’ameublement (furniture or furnishing music) ensures that he is viewed as a precursor of minimalism, muzak, and many other 20th-century musical genres. The concept can be traced to his early career as a pianist in Montmartre cafés, where he accompanied singers and shadow plays. Satie developed musique d’ameublement in Montparnasse during World War I in collaboration with other artists. This talk examines the concept and meanings of Satie’s furniture music, focusing on the entr’actes he composed for Max Jacob’s play Ruffian toujours, truand jamais (1920), a novel fusion of theatre and music. The play is unpublished and was believed lost, but it has recently come to light in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

This is a FREE event

Speaker
Dr Caroline Potter
Venue
MacRobert Building
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