SatiePandémie: Collective Vexation
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Erik Satie – Vexations
Every May 17th since 1992, at Teatro Miela in Trieste, Italy, we celebrate Erik Satie’s birthday. Every year. We won’t let this pandemic stop us.
We are terribly aware of the serious and dangerous perspective that live music and all the live performances are facing in this moment.
Therefore, we are trying to react with the most effective instruments suitable for our pataphysical bowler hatted protector: humor and perseverance. Every Satie fanatic is welcome to join this celebration!
Our goal is to gather the necessary amount of participants to create a great global event that will present the 840 Vexation repetitions, with the contribution of pianists from all over the world.
The event will be broadcast in live streaming on Sunday May 17th (Satie's birthday) starting at 12:01am Central European Time (which Saturday, May 16, at 3:01pm Pacific Time). The last vexations will be performed live at Teatro Miela in Trieste.
Live streaming and contents of SatiePandémie will be available at:
www.buoncompleannosatie.it
This is a public act, so there’s nothing cosmetic or conciliatory about it. It is not a music festival or a concert because there is nothing that can replace live music and performing arts. We celebrate Erik Satie to recall that we desperately need a way to reopen the theaters. We need artists, musicians, and cultural workers to be able to create culture. We need a living art that is the antidote to the worst diseases.
We are now all experts in pandemics: let’s spread vexations!
Let’s celebrate Erik Satie properly.
Thank you
The artistic committee of SatiePandémie/Teatro Miela Bonawentura
Eleonora Cedaro – curatrice
Veniero Rizzardi
Sara Codutti
Anna D’Errico