The article discusses how Erik Satie's innovative idea of 'furniture music' emerged from a growing cultural dependence on music. Unlike previous generations, people now have instant access to countless songs, which has diminished the specialness of music. Satie recognized humanity's need for background music that enriches the ambiance without intruding, leading him to create compositions designed to be subtly integrated into everyday life. These works, composed between 1917 and 1923, aimed to soften the sounds of daily activities, thereby redefining our relationship with music.
Despite having been born in 1866 himself, Erik Satie understood humanity's need to listen to music without really listening to it.
The result was five deliberately ignorable compositions, each tailored to an ordinary space, which he wrote between 1917 and 1923.
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