Erik Satie

In the collective imagination, the figure of Erik Satie is inseparable from the music. But few creative people have endeavored as much as he to rid the works of all trace of subjectivity. The better to sidestep any explicit – or implicit – allusion to his private life. Satie went as far as to virtually forbid himself from having any such thing. To do this, he turned his person, his everyday behavior and even his physical appearance into a banner. to some extent, of his oeuvre. And to such a degree that it is possible to follow quiet closely the development of his aesthetic concerns through the various characters which he embodied turn by turn the way an actor plays his parts in the theater.