In lecture today we discussed repetition broadly and I introduced you to several pieces, including Eric Satie's (in)famous Vexations.  I have attached a Reason "performance" of this piece, all 840 repeats ready to play.  Notice that the file is very small, under 1 MB.  If I exported all 3360 measures as audio, it would fill a small hard drive ;) 

I invite each of you to experience this piece for yourself,  the whole thing takes around 20 hours.  You can also export the MIDI file and play it on your home system (with notably bland General MIDI sounds).  For other non-piano versions of the piece, including several remixes and re-imaginings, see ubuweb here:

http://www.ubu.com
(for those who saw guitarist Alan Licht when he performed here last month, be sure to catch his guitar and voice rendition found about half way down the page)

A manuscript of the score can be found here:

Vexations manuscript

I have also attached a PDF score .

And, of course, John Cage's description of the performance:

Cage Letters on Vexations perfromance

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