![]() ![]() Not much else was done with the furniture music and it remained largely unknown to the public except for being mentioned in a few biographies of the composer. As intermission music the idea of background ambience to fill the space is again asserted. The second set was composed as intermission music for a comedy by Max Jacob that has since been lost. The first set of furniture music he wrote has names like “Tapisserie en fer forgé – pour l'arrivée des invités (grande réception) – À jouer dans un vestibule – Mouvement: Très riche (Tapestry in forged iron – for the arrival of the guests (grand reception) – to be played in a vestibule – Movement: Very rich)” and “Carrelage phonique – Peut se jouer à un lunch ou à un contrat de mariage – Mouvement: Ordinaire (Phonic tiling – Can be played during a lunch or civil marriage – Movement: Ordinary)” ![]() Satie had a notion of music that could "mingle with the sound of the knives and forks at dinner." His first set of furniture pieces gave that notion a form. The names are often indicative of how the music relates to a specific space. Many of Satie’s pieces can be experienced as furniture music, but he only gave the name to five short pieces. It was a breakthrough idea in western music as it the music itself was to be a part of the room, a sonic background to furnish the space and not intended as something that needed to be directly focused on. It’s literal translation is furnishing music, though in English it has been standard to call it furniture music. In French the term is musique d’ameublement a phrase he coined in 1917 and is generally taken to mean background music. The other was as the spiritual god father of ambient, descending from his conceptions of Furniture Music. One stream was the noisy yet minimalist vein that came from the influence of his piece Vexations. Satie was to have many influences on musical developments after him. It was a music with its roots in both the aether and the living room, this latter because of the influence of Erik Satie. ![]() Over the course of the 20th century a music concerned with various aspects of space and spatialization began to take shape. ![]()
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