A first impression can leave a mark that lasts forever. When you turn on a video game for the first time, the loading screen, ...

Kraftwerk returned to Brighton this evening for the first time in 3,279 days, which is just shy of 9 years! Can’t complain though, as the time before that they had left it 13,152 days (36 years!). For ...

Influencer Jessica Jean's TikTok video about a crowded hotel pool has sparked a debate on influencer expectations, hotel ...

Sam Rosenberg’s monthly column CineMusic highlights newly released film scores, soundtracks, and the composers/curators behind them. When thinking about a film that depicts BDSM culture, one might ...

Animation. The theme is Weightlessness. Objects and characters are cut loose from habitual meanings, also from tensions and gravitational limitations. A lyric Eric Satie track accompanies the film.

Performances in N.Y.C. A century after the composer’s death, he is ubiquitous on relaxation playlists. Those just scratch the surface of a stranger, more complicated career. Credit...Photo12/Universal ...

The dapper composer who invented background music was driven by a profound if offbeat religiosity. By Sue Prideaux “A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.” Ian ...

The French composer Erik Satie was an extraordinary figure whose work defies categorisation. With his famous Gymnopédies on one hand and his eccentric and frankly unperformable (not difficult, just ...

Erik Satie was a French composer and pianist born in 1866. He was, to put it lightly, eccentric. He started his musical career playing in cabaret-cafes in Montmartre in Paris, and did not complete his ...

From one page of sheet music, Russian-German pianist Igor Levit will create a near day-long event. In his upcoming performance of Erik Satie’s piece ‘Vexations’ at London’s Southbank Centre, Levit ...

The Trump administration’s greatest achievements were in foreign policy. Though manifested by presidential gut instinct, rather than bureaucratic mastery, ‘America First’ as practiced was the ...