I Tried Erik Satie's BIZARRE Daily Routine

I followed Satie's BIZARRE daily routine and then wrote some music! What started off as a silly experiment turned into a memorable and thought-provoking experience. Enjoy it with me!

00:00 A silly but worthy experiment!
01:07 Who Was Erik Satie?
02:10 Satie's Routine
03:56 Mémoirs d'un Amnésique
04:27 On Productivity and Boredom
05:34 On Satie's Irony and Humor
07:06 I Was Inspired to Write Music!
07:39 What I Love About Satie
08:31 Composing in Cafes?
09:00 "For the Missing Pastry"
09:42 Announcement

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[LukeFaulkner]

Me: procrastination
Satie, an intellectual: *_inspiration_*

[emmetharrigan]

Can’t wait for Nahre to stack a second piano on top of her first loll

[eriksatieofficiel]

What do you mean "Erik Satie's pretty ridiculous routine"?
I am calling you out for an umbrella duel!

[parsa.mostaghim]

This boredom idea remided me of Tarkovsky's awnser to:
What would you like to tell young people?

I don’t know… I think I’d like to say only that they should learn to be alone and try to spend as much time as possible by themselves. I think one of the faults of young people today is that they try to come together around events that are noisy, almost aggressive at times. This desire to be together in order to not feel alone is an unfortunate symptom, in my opinion. Every person needs to learn from childhood how to be spend time with oneself. That doesn’t mean he should be lonely, but that he shouldn’t grow bored with himself because people who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger, from a self-esteem point of view."

[motorbikeray]

100 years in the future, musicians and composers will be studying the works of Nahre Sol.

[tia]

I wonder if it said "ne dormir que d'un oeil" literally translated to mean "sleep with only one eye". It is a common expression in French, meaning shallow sleep, still thinking (for various reasons). Satie often played with words as he loved to do. Satie revelled in his oddness and being a non conformist. One only has to read his compositions for children "Le Roi Des Haricots" ("King of Beans") or what happened to the girl's doll (a satire on the compositions about dolls by Tchaikovsky?) Personally, I think breaking normal routine and slowing down allow for alpha waves in the brain and increased creativity.

[natf]

4:11 omg i laughed so hard. I'm French and Memoires means memoirs, but also memory, and amnésique is pretty transparent (=amnesic). So he basically called his book "memory of an amnesic man"

[DonyaLane]

Your piece at the end was gorgeous. I love the deep atmosphere it created. It made me think of a guy who has a singular thought on his mind, and he just can't stop thinking about it, because he's become obsessed with it.
I'll go and take your survey now...
EDIT: I just remembered something else I wanted to add. Satie seemed to be one of those people who really wasn't passionate about food. It was low on his radar, and that's why he gave it such little attention. I also bet that he only ate monochromatic white foods, so that he was never distracted and over-stimulated with it, because he wanted to only dedicate his creative energy towards music. I have a collaborator, whose only clothes are a few pairs of blue jeans and a bunch of T-shirts that are all the same color. This way, he never has to spend time thinking about what to wear. It's a minimalist approach!

[DominicGo]

3:06 you mom saying “funny” in a deadpan voice while handling a sharp knife 😭

[chata]

Fun fact: After Erik Satie's death (I think it was after), 2 grand pianos were found stacked onto each other.

[ΓιάννηςΔιαμαντόπουλος-θν]

Erik Satie has to be one of the weirdest composers to ever walk planet earth

[Boredpikachu]

Thank you Nahre, I really needed to hear this. To stop obsessing about productivity sometimes and let things come to me, and to enjoy what I am doing, even if it is not 'work'

[russkalen]

I especially resonated with the idea of composing away from the keyboard. I used to come up with good stuff while riding a bicycle (I think because of the rhythmic body movements). I didn't realize that Satie was so funny. I like his sense of humor challenging the assumptions of his society. Well done video.

[annduhamel]

I've loved that brilliantly absurd piece of writing for 25 years, since I first encountered it. And I love your takeaway here, that we don't need to focus on productivity all the time and instead, like Satie, can have long stretches of the day that serve as time and space for creative inspiration. Thank you for this video!

[FunkyBaby]

"This is a society where productivity is pushed onto us". This will be my contemplation of the day. Nice, thanks.

[antoniaezac]

Can I just say, as a French person, your pronunciation of the composers' names at the beginning is spot on. Actually, the whole video is excellent, as always

[PhilKelley]

Thank you for attempting this experiment and sharing with us the insights you got from it. I also learned a lot about Satie - I had no idea he was such a joker. I am always interested in hearing how creative people organize their day. A key idea I got from this - which reinforces something I already believed - is productivity in creativity really requires a lot of "space", not an industrial efficiency time management approach.

[justinmorrow]

This video was weirdly wonderful, maybe a lot like Satie’s music. Really enjoyed the end of the “For the missing pastry” part especially. Genuinely helped me to just calm down and Be

[dclarkmusic]

Didn’t realize Nahre could H 🏀 🏀 P ! Haha seriously though, this was hilarious and awesome and interesting

[beckettstevens]

I'm really glad I saw this video. A lot of the information I've seen about Satie tried to make him out a nutcase. This video made me realize how much of what they used to call him crazy, was actually just an absurdist or ironic sense of humor. He's been pretty wrongly portrayed from other videos I've seen about him.