Thoughts on Erik Satie.
Erik Satie was not just a composer, pianist or musician. He was an artist of sound that could utilize, repetition and dissonance, producing tones that crash together like magnificent waves. Each piece of music was not an ordinary mundane song, but a life that 1/3
I am still sick. It has been a frigging month. I have Strep throat, lost my voice, fever and nausea and I decided to buy the third volume of Cassirer's 'The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Vol. 3: Phenomenology of Cognition,' in bed reading till I pass out. #Cassirer
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But sound needs space, it needs a limit to confine it to something, an apeiron, which is why Satie saw his music confined to elevators, and midnight bars. The experience was meant to deal with the pauses of life, and thrust one back into the intimate infinite multiplicity of feeling 3/3
"But we are fated
To find no foothold, no rest,
And suffering mortals
Dwindle and fall
Headlong from one
Hour to the next,
Hurled like water
From ledge to ledge
Downward for years to the vague abyss."
Hyperion's Song of Fate,
--Friedrich Hölderlin.
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Imagine if we could witness a discussion between Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Ernst Cassirer on the Philosophy of Mythology, and it's greater relation to culture and humanity. #Cassirer #Schelling
that stretches between. the soft rhythms inducing feelings of wonder and melancholia.
The vast array of sounds representing questions of "why there is something rather than nothing." For Satie, life is a continuous ring of movements, and death is the space where no sound exists, a pure rest. 2/3
Hermann Cohen (1842-1918), Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945).
