I chanced upon the name: SATIE, while researching the music
played by the classical guitarist John Williams.
Curious, I went to have a closer look at his works. A
collection of his compositions is collated here.
Some descriptions of the man Eric Alfred Leslie Satie from
the Wikipedia, got my attention.
He was described as a colourful figure, an early 20 century
Parisian avant-garde who wrote under the pen-name of Virgin Lebeau and Francios
de Paule.
His works provided the springboard for later artistic
movements labelled Minimalism, Surrealism, the Theatre of the Absurd and
Repetitive Music.
He was called an eccentric; a clumsy but subtle technician;
later a thinker with a gift of eloquence.
Satie, composer and pianist, describes himself as a phonometrician
(meaning someone who measures sounds).
He shows his ideas in a series of
compositions which he calls GYMNOPEDIES.
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