"My love for Eric Satie's music began a long time ago, as a child. I loved his "Gymnopedia" and "Gnossienne" very much. In my youth I listened to a lot of his music, played his pieces on the piano, guitar and conduct fragments of "Parade". in 2016, I organized a festival in Kiev dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Satie's birth: we played orchestral music ("Cinema", "Parade", "Five Grimaces"), piano music, as well as "Furniture Music". And the main event of this festival was the first performance in Ukraine of the full marathon "Vexation" with 24 pianists. And to this day, I really love Satie's music, and happily responded to the offer to record 40 times for this project from 21 weeks of 2021."
Dmytro classical guitar transcription of the piece is his own.
Dmytro Radzetskyi was born on June 24, 1989 in Ukraine.
Graduated of Musiс Academy as classical guitarist & composer. Winner of many competitions in Ukraine as a guitarist and composer. Participant in the experimental music project "Supremus", rock band "SUR Band", electro-acoustic guitar duo "Big Second" and “Radz”. Founder, leader and conductor of Ukrainian Improvisers Orchestra.
He has performed concerts of classical, experimental, jazz and rock music in many cities of Ukraine, Poland, Germany, USA, Israel, Czech, Slovakia, Netherlands.
Author of chamber, orchestral, electro-acoustic, rock compositions, music for short films, radio and TV-shows, etc.
Author and developer of unique 8 and 10 string MIDI Radz-guitars, which combines classical guitar, electric guitar, bass-guitar and synthesizer.
In different projects collaborated with Tony Levin & Pat Mastelotto (KING CRIMSON), Phil Minton, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ed Mann & Denny Walley (Frank Zappa Band, "Bang on a Can All-Stars".
Vexations by Erik Satie at the number he required: 840 times.
So, in this year 2021, we came with this idea: 21 different
artists recording the piece 40 times = 840!
So from the 21st week of 2021 and for the next 21 weeks, one of the 21 volumes will be released.
Only one demand: each participant plays the piece 40 times on any instruments of their choice, tempo or arrangement they want. Enjoy!...more
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