Designed to be ignored’ – uncover the surprisingly fascinating origins of background music in this video essay on Erik Satie ...

In his upcoming performance of Erik Satie’s piece ‘Vexations’ at London’s Southbank Centre, Levit will once again recreate the work exactly per its instructions, repeating it 840 times.

The extreme simplicity of many of Satie’s pieces, their thin textures and strange, unprepared harmonies, coupled with his idiosyncratic sense of humour, have led many to view him as the clown (or the ...

Awe’s second release, from Danish artists MK Velsorf and Aase Nielsen, at first seems like it couldn’t be further from Atlas’ ...