Mémoires d'un Amnésique - Alex Metcalfe performs Erik Satie

Concert

Saturday 26 August 19:00
Piel View House, Barrow Park LA13 9DB
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Mémoires d'un Amnésique - A piano, a film and Erik Satie in his own words

Alex Metcalfe turns back time to become legendary pianist Erik Satie.

Join us for a night of sound and vision dedicated to the maverick and innovative French composer.

Alex performs Satie's most important works, in character as the composer from the set of his Arceuil apartment.

Sarah Miles’s script, edited from Satie's own words, is narrated against the backdrop of Keith Lovegrove's black-and-white surrealist film.

The film is shot in the style of early French cinema, with references to Jean Cocteau, Man Ray and Luis Buñuel, using Satie's own words for the narrative.

Born in 1866, Erik Satie's spare, unconventional, often witty style exerted a major influence on 20th-century music.

"Satie is the maverick who invented “furniture music”, sounds that were designed to be heard but not listened to, long before Muzak was branded and sold." - The Guardian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDpKgU0oUrA

Doors open 19:00 for 19:30 prompt start

Programme 65 mins. No interval.

Drinks by cash donation

Directions and Information

Piel View House, Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness LA13 9DB

Access to the venue is by foot.

https://what3words.com/noise.lifts.beats

Parking: There is one designated accessible parking space, to book please email glenn@fonfestival.org

Enter from the park gate by Park Drive junction bus stop (by the Baptist Church)

Walk route is 2 mins signposted from here.

We have a no pets policy within the premises. Assistance dogs are welcome.