Furniture music

Musique d' ameublement. (French, about: " furniture music, equipment music " ) is the title or the generic name of five songs for salon orchestra in a different occupation of the composer Erik Satie from the years 1917, 1920 and 1923 These are very short pieces to be constantly repeated. The Musique d' had ameublement as provocative musical concept and as stated use music big impact around the period of minimal music since the 1960s, especially through the mediation of John Cage.

The first two pieces Carrelage phonique ( Acoustic tiles) and tapestry en fer forgé (wallpaper wrought iron) of 1917 were probably not listed at Satie's lifetime.

The second episode Industrial and Sons ( Industrial sounds ) of 1920 was played as Entr'acte music in the two breaks in a theater performance by Max Jacob in the gallery Barbazanges Paris, while the audience had the opportunity to look at an exhibition of children's drawings. The two sets bear the headings Chez un bistrot, Un salon.

The fifth piece was written in 1923 as a commissioned work for the American financier Eugene Meyer and is entitled Tenture de cabinet préfectoral (about: wall hanging for an executive's office ). - Publications of the musical score and sound recordings came about only in the 1970s.

Satie tried to musically reproduce industrially produced decorative elements, as found on wallpaper patterns or textile taped. The industrially produced wallpaper robbed the visual artists around 1900 an important source of income (see wallpaper # History ). In a letter to Jean Cocteau of 1920 Satie said: " Musique d' ameublement generates vibrations, without having any other purpose. It fulfills the same role as the light, the warmth and comfort in all its manifestations. "