These two pieces are part of a larger set of pieces with the name "Preludes, Moods & Poems" which I intend to keep on expanding as time goes on.
These two pieces are dedicated to an old friend of mine, and I kind of wrote them without really trying to get too intellectual or any of that (I tried, really!) As a result, the pieces were mostly built up intuitively when it comes to composition techniques and such.
The main idea (and experiment) behind these short pieces is one related to "open art", in a sense that they're free to be interpreted in whatever way anyone wants. It can be someone sitting alone and playing it to themselves, or something like what we did in concert (video below.)
So the text is not intended to be spoken, sung, or any of that, it's intended to just be there on the score and interpreted as desired. The text was written also by me, and of course anyone keen on Satie's piano music (specially the later works) will recognize this style of score layout.
Overall, the pieces as a whole don't follow any form or particular concept. These two are good examples of how different each piece is from eachother, keeping however a particular stylistic standard which is hopefully subtle enough but clear so that they can be seen as part of the same thing.
Concerning this particular interpretation of both, we came up with the idea of doing them this way because it just seemed like a good idea. Throwing in scenic elements into otherwise "audio only" music is something I'm fond of, so long as the pieces' context allows for such a thing.
Rehearsals were pretty tough, since the texts are in English both struggled a little with the pronunciation and coordinating with the piano was also pretty much done on as we went along.
So there you go, now with the video.
YouTube - Preludes, moods and poems No.2 & 5