PrettyInScarlett

Something different for a day: as part of the National Museum of Wales' Cerdd/Music 09 (year of music), on Saturday 20th June, the National Museum Cardiff showcased a performance of Erik Satie's 'Vexations'. The 'Vexations' consists of 840 repetitions of a short work, with 1 repetition composing of theme-variation1-theme-variation2, of which the score is below. Full details of the performance are on the museum's website here . The performance also served as the anniversary of the first Welsh performance of the work in Bangor in 1969, with Saturday's rota of artists including 6 of the original performers. The full 840 repetitions lasts around 18 hours, but I stayed for around 45-50 minutes (until repetition 360). In that short time, I still found Vexations both very interesting and strangely hypnotic - it also fitted in well with the surroundings of Gallery 12 (the Realist and Impressionist part of the museum's collection). I may try and play 1 or 2