You've Been Listening to Gymnopédie No. 1 WRONG your ENTIRE LIFE! [ceci n'est pas by Nick Fagnilli]

[@elitefitrea]

Very nice. I was listening at 2x speed at first but once I got the point of what you were saying I slowed to regular speed. I think you’re really onto something.

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

Incredible!!! Thanks so much, please check out the album and listen to it at regular speed… or even .75 😈😈😈

[@vidarbonsak7855]

This makes perfect sense. You make the need for a Gymnopedie revival sound paramount. In these troubled times, a very slow performance of this piece could be just what we need.

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

This piece remains so very popular, I dont know how much one needs to revive it; but we do need to understand the value of emotional regulation via slow musical sounds, and that ASMR can be music too!

[@derekmccloud6333]

More of this stuff please! Excited to see where this channel goes 🙂

[@venasc]

Yes! =) You're not alone! Thanks for saying this out loud! ^^ This piece is meant to put you in another state of consciousness for sure.

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

Please enjoy the album! Link in the description

[@johnkrause5068]

This is cool stuff Nick! I didn't really know much about older works in music that might be considered ambient before Eno

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

Thank you so much! There actually is not much that happens in this particular direction between Satie and Brian Eno. People started to do what we might call soundscapes and musique concrete between the 40s and 60s… this is not quite the same as ambient music or Satie’s idea but the same elements are present. People will also tell you that early reggae and dub are big influences on ambient music, so if you like that, then you already know! 😎

[@fawful303]

Great video, Nick! Good luck with your channel, I look forward to seeing what content you will create :)

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

Thanks old friend, please enjoy the album also! Link in the description

[@joshuasjoen4063]

I love this. I wish there were more recordings at this slower tempo! It helps you soak in the chords and harmonies in order to enjoy them a lot more. 😌

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

Reinbert de Leeuw just gets it. Best Satie interpreter ever. I dont even like Socrate either but he and Barbara Hannigan make me love it.

[@pauliaboniandoutoftheblues7829]

Wow, that was a pretty heavy lift. Nice work.

[@sed6]

This piece is included on my Yamaha CSP 170. I play along to the falling lights and play it painfully slowly naturally!

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

Try to set that metronome to 42 next time… feel the magic!

[@sed6]

@@nicksgottheaux6445 Good tip, thx!

[@fortunefavorsthebold3459]

great insights and great vibe :)

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

All I can hope for! Thank you!

[@ryanpetriello3461]

My favorite part about Vexations is that he doesn’t even specify that it’s to be played 840 times, he just gives directions about how to prepare yourself in the event you do play it 840 times.

[@ryanpetriello3461]

In terms of pieces that are extremely painful to play but are very soothing to listen to, Spiegel im Spiegel (when played at a slow tempo) evokes something similar for me.

[@ryanpetriello3461]

Also, when you were going through the writing process, how did you determine which note was 1, which note was 2, etc.?

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

You’re right, my good buddy! I should have read the header note a little closer. That is classic Satie. I think maybe just the suggestion was meant to put the idea in someone’s head. Yes, Arvo Pärt knows all about this feeling, I should have mentioned him, and I should try to play Für Alina with this kind of pulse. It was mentioned in the livestream how I counted the notes but not here- I counted up from the bottom!

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

Lowest note was always 1, and if I eliminated the first in tied notes I eliminated the entire tie, thereby subtracting a note from other measures as well. I want to say I didn’t rearticulate if I cut a note mid tie but I can’t be sure I stuck to that.

[@ryanpetriello3461]

Thank you for the clarification!

[@error__music]

I am from Greece and the name of the piece in sounds like the Greek equivalent of the phrase "naked child". I think you understand my concern when I heard you describe it as "delicious".

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

💀

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

I think Satie did want to evoke something Ancient Greek with his made-up word, but I don't think it was that exactly 😂

[@error__music]

@@nicksgottheaux6445 Um the thing is... The word is not made up. This is the wiki page from the ancient Greek word Gymnopedie was derived by: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnopaedia

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

@@error__music thanks for that catch! Sources mention both that this is a Greek term and that it might not have had any specific meaning to Satie. It’s also possible that I and many others conflate Gymnopedie as being a made up word like Gnossienne is.

[@error__music]

@@nicksgottheaux6445 Yeah but the Greek word was linked as the word of origin in the gymnopedie wiki page. Just found it hilarious 🤣.

[@elihyland4781]

this is fukn cooooool

[@SC4RRL3TT]

Is that actually how it's pronounced? I've been pronouncing its name wrong for so long.....

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

Not quite. I don’t get it right either, and the word has a strange meaning in Greek, but I do not believe the word had any meaning to Satie.

[@anarose6021]

Satie-deez nutz

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

You are a Satease

[@KeenBulldozer]

So are you saying you solved music?

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

No, I’m saying that Reinbert de Leeuw solved this particular piece of music. And I’m saying that I made this particular piece of music into a longer work that explores that truth behind it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHyrpqSqi7RkoNUsi=basiPKO1Qny5Nh93

[@timflatus]

And you've been pronouncing it wrong, it's ​/ʒim.nɔ.pe.di/, Satie was French, not Dutch.

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

🤷🏻‍♂️ I tired, allegedly I knew French in kindergarten but I don’t remember. I already hedged my bets and drew the line at musique d’ameublement. Language is a crazy thing.

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

At least it’s the kind of thing where we still know what we’re talking about no matter what kind of g we hit it with.

[@timflatus]

@@nicksgottheaux6445 given your meditative approach to the piece "Hymnopedie" is strangely appropriate

[@nicksgottheaux6445]

@@timflatus lmao, i appreciate that concession! Thanks again for checking it out and keep posting more songs!