Vexations - Your comments...

CONTROL ROOM - THANKYOU!

2008-11-30T09:16:00.000Z

Thanks for posting, your support was amazing and when the performers read it they will know they did an excellent job!

2008-11-30T09:10:00.001Z

Congratulations to everyone involved! Although I have found the experience of watching unsettling at times it has also been hypnotic and it feels really strange now that is has finished, as if something is missing. The artwork looks wonderful and it was intiguing to see how it had developed since I last viewed it several hours ago. Hope you all have a restful day.

2008-11-30T09:09:00.003Z

go harry!

2008-11-30T09:09:00.001Z

Brilliant! So pleased I got up to watch the end. This has been absolutely incredible. Hooray for Satie! Hooray for pianists! Hooray for artists and dancers! Hooray for techy people! Hooray for the University of Chichester! Hooray for conceptual art! Hooray for life! Adam (the midnight shift)

2008-11-30T09:04:00.002Z

Amazing, Jackie

2008-11-30T09:04:00.001Z

What an event, how are those dancers still dancing?

2008-11-30T09:01:00.000Z

Well done Jonathan - you must be exhausted!

2008-11-30T09:00:00.001Z

This really is a fascinating project. I am glued! Well doen Jonathan, Ben, Cathy and Steve bw Vini

2008-11-30T08:56:00.001Z

Well done everyone. Coffee and Vexations to start the day! Have been following on and off throughout and have felt vexed, mesmerized and hypnotized in equal measure. MH Media Dept.

2008-11-30T08:54:00.000Z

Thrilled to have been a part of this event - thanks to Jonathan for encouraging us all. Now go get some sleep! Wendy P

2008-11-30T08:53:00.001Z

Are we doing a countdown from 10? And how about getting faster on each one now to conclude by 9? The gauntlet of challenge has been thrown.

2008-11-30T08:52:00.001Z

We all like the way this piece has evolved whilst we have been asleep. Well done Nic et al. Love Rose and Luke and the Heaton Moor mob.

2008-11-30T08:51:00.001Z

Yes - 12 more to go!! We saw that sneaky peek at the counter!

2008-11-30T08:49:00.000Z

I swear Jonathan's hair has grown overnight!

2008-11-30T08:43:00.001Z

Jonathan - making it seem effortless!

2008-11-30T08:42:00.001Z

Go Mum Russell/Childs!

2008-11-30T08:41:00.001Z

And finally the person responsible, and after no sleep all night!

2008-11-30T08:39:00.001Z

Well done David!

2008-11-30T08:37:00.001Z

I wonder how the dancers and artists are feeling having listened to the same music for nearly 18 hours?!

2008-11-30T08:35:00.001Z

This has been a fantastic event. Very impressed with all the pianists and their different interpretations. Congratulations to the artists and dancers and all the technical team and behind the scenes crew plus the Vexations Project Manager. A triumph! Catherine x

2008-11-30T08:23:00.001Z

brighton is awake and very impressed

CONTROL ROOM

2008-11-30T08:08:00.000Z

Hi everyone,

We are in the final hour now. Let us know what you think of all the performers and where you are watching from.

2008-11-30T08:01:00.000Z

Nic, we are overcome by your amazing achievement and have sat fascinated as your creation unfolded - like you, delicate yet strong, simple yet complex, beautiful and imaginative. From north to south we are with you all the way. Jean, Derek and the Sunderland mob.

2008-11-30T07:43:00.001Z

and the piano continues as the dancers keep dancing and the elastic takes form - amazing event

2008-11-30T07:19:00.000Z

Nic - u are as amazing and original as your sculpture x

100 TO GO

2008-11-30T07:09:00.000Z

It's the final countdown...

doo doo doo doo...

Pow x

2008-11-30T06:53:00.001Z

I have just tuned back in after some sleep and it's an amazing feeling to join back in with it all (and to see the piccture slowly transform behnd the pianists. Well done dancers too. Must be exhusting. LJ

CONTROL ROOM

2008-11-30T06:38:00.001Z

Good Morning! Thanks for all the hardcore support from the insomniacs out there.
When you're posting, tell us where you're from!

Congratulations to the performers who played through the early hours, keep going!

Lisa - Control Room xxx

2008-11-30T06:37:00.002Z

She was great

2008-11-30T06:33:00.001Z

baby - stop it's 6.30 in the morning your elastic is sublime xxx

2008-11-30T06:24:00.001Z

loving your work - alfie xxx

2008-11-30T06:21:00.002Z

morning darling - looks amazing x

2008-11-30T06:21:00.001Z

im so vexed i cant sleep

2008-11-30T05:27:00.000Z

Who's still awake? Lets have a head count.

2008-11-30T05:03:00.001Z

Up to 666

2008-11-30T05:00:00.001Z

Nic it looks fab!!!! Thanks to your trusty helpers and your hard work :-) Well done

2008-11-30T04:53:00.002Z

Well done Suzy.....

2008-11-30T04:53:00.001Z

Its been a pleasure taking part in such an interesting event. Good collaboration between all the departments. Great sound, dance, art and media. Have a good night all of you going on till the end. Thanks, good night.

2008-11-30T04:27:00.001Z

The installation is looking brilliant, the perspective and shape are so interesting and colour.

2008-11-30T04:19:00.001Z

Enjoying your playing Ben!

2008-11-30T03:51:00.000Z

wowie this piece sounds hard to play. anyone who has played so far, how hard is it? Kate D

2008-11-30T03:37:00.001Z

Sorry TS

2008-11-30T03:31:00.001Z

yeah this vexations is great. I been watching the whole time and will continue. Music is great, and as for the dancers. Keep up good work. The Travelling Salesman

2008-11-30T03:02:00.001Z

Susie has a beautiful touch

2008-11-30T03:00:00.001Z

chris, ur smiling like a crazy person!

2008-11-30T02:40:00.003Z

i like chris' pauses. well done you. nicely thought through.

2008-11-30T02:40:00.001Z

i like chris' pauses. well done you. nicely thought through.

Morning Madness with Vexations

2008-11-30T02:37:00.000Z

Has everyone gone to bed? Has Vexations put you into a yogic trance? Let us know - tell us where you are watching from...

2008-11-30T02:24:00.001Z

Had a few beers, with it on nonstop, went to the pub, went home with it ringing in my ears, tried to take a nap, found i was too disturbed and in any case would probably oversleep! I'm on in two hours and it's definitely going to be the most surreal performance of my life...Huge respect to the dancers though, I'm amazed at their resilience.Socrates x

2008-11-30T02:23:00.000Z

Wooo go jamie! thru that letter box

2008-11-30T02:18:00.001Z

yay jamie!!

2008-11-30T01:57:00.001Z

Jonathan Jonathan Jonathan!!Fantastic playing!! And this music makes me hungry......:0

2008-11-30T01:51:00.001Z

my head is about to explode

2008-11-30T01:48:00.002Z

140 posts... impressive! Let's make it 200 before I leave at 3:00!

Ashley - Control Room

2008-11-30T01:41:00.001Z

It's just occured to me that Dan and Ben got their fashion sense from Eric Satie himself! Check the picture! ---->

2008-11-30T01:39:00.001Z

Do we think Ben Hall will be dressed differently when he comes back.

The odds are at 3-1 that he will be wearing a black hat!!

2008-11-30T01:37:00.001Z

my head is about to explode

2008-11-30T01:17:00.001Z

Great stuff Jonathan! Super doops.

2008-11-30T01:01:00.001Z

I rather enjoyed Adam's post on the performers' page. He's obviously a man of many words, and his counting skills are superb!

2008-11-30T01:00:00.001Z

INCREDIBLE!! :/

2008-11-30T00:57:00.001Z

Woo Jonathans spaced out! We're doomed! I know, play Bumble boogie!!

2008-11-30T00:48:00.003Z

It's times like these I'm glad I'm not a pianist... Lol

2008-11-30T00:48:00.001Z

BEN! IT SAYS TRES LENT!!!

2008-11-30T00:46:00.001Z

Looking forward to ben interveiw. what a joker

2008-11-30T00:45:00.001Z

wooo Ben the original dude with the hat :P nice playing

Rebecca

2008-11-30T00:39:00.002Z

OK, so I came expecting to stay 30 mins - three hours later off to sleep while this continues through the night. Thank you Cathy Child and all the dancers - you caught me. I probably groaned when first suggested - how wrong was that. Caught too by the varied response of the pianists to the piece and with the quiet creation of the artwork. thanks everyone and especially to those technical guys who made this possible.

2008-11-30T00:38:00.001Z

yay! ben! go u! errr... what are the peeps in the bottom 2 frames doing?

2008-11-30T00:36:00.001Z

There is no set tempo play as fast as you like

2008-11-30T00:35:00.001Z

jesus slow down!!!!!!!!!

2008-11-30T00:33:00.001Z

A most interesting and intriguing experience for both performers and audience.Well executed and organised.

2008-11-30T00:32:00.001Z

Top playing monsieur Lathbury, but what a shame this piece doesn't allow for some of your trademark arm throwing gestures! Tej

2008-11-30T00:21:00.001Z

Loving the interveiws lets have some more please

2008-11-30T00:19:00.000Z

bens interpretation seems very sinister to me

2008-11-30T00:18:00.003Z

thanks from all

2008-11-30T00:18:00.001Z

good work guys, it looks and sounds awesome have been wathing on and off all night, am going to bed now but will watch some more in the morning! good luck

2008-11-30T00:13:00.001Z

It sounds awesome if you play both the chord themes at the same time. Ben that is some wack stacatissimo...

2008-11-30T00:11:00.001Z

for me the dance is realy echoing the mood of the music right now

2008-11-30T00:10:00.001Z

intersting dynamics lath

2008-11-30T00:09:00.003Z

Adam, where were the glasses?!

2008-11-30T00:09:00.001Z

Hahaha I know Ben was going to wear his Hat. Talk about Copying that other guy :p

2008-11-30T00:03:00.002Z

Upn my first hearing of this music it gave me a sense of desolation due to its disrigared of tonal centre however after listening for about 4 hours now its becoming strangly relaxing perhaps the repitions are changing my perception make the dissonant harmonies seem less odd

2008-11-30T00:02:00.001Z

48 reps Mr Lathbury? Good job your dance comp is all finished... LJ

2008-11-29T23:56:00.004Z

adam you machine

2008-11-29T23:56:00.003Z

Wowza adam with your terrifyingly perfect repeats I'm convinced you're part robot now. Must be all that contemporary muzak... Inspiring stuff, big respect from Socrates

2008-11-29T23:56:00.001Z

around 8 0r 9am

2008-11-29T23:55:00.001Z

What time is it due to end? Seems to be moving along much faster than expected...

2008-11-29T23:54:00.000Z

I believe alot of the dance is improvised its an intersing contrast to the repetitve music

2008-11-29T23:53:00.001Z

strangely addictive

2008-11-29T23:51:00.001Z

Yay everyone were just went over half. The picture is starting to reveal as with the art

2008-11-29T23:50:00.002Z

Its very a mellow piece, but it brings out emotions. Its enhancing them more than they would usually be...if that makes sense..?

2008-11-29T23:50:00.001Z

Easy camera, lots of Adam close ups going on!

2008-11-29T23:48:00.005Z

yes it is i nerver thought of it like that

2008-11-29T23:48:00.003Z

Clever how the artwork looks like the strings inside the piano ....

2008-11-29T23:48:00.001Z

adam, you cheeky monkey!

2008-11-29T23:47:00.001Z

Woo go Dr Swayne!

2008-11-29T23:46:00.005Z

Heard lots for the pianists let's hear it for the dancers

2008-11-29T23:46:00.003Z

"ad, ad, ad, ad, adam swayne, ohwoah, we all love adam swayne!!" (if you were there you'd understand....)

2008-11-29T23:46:00.001Z

Lovely to hear Adam play - great pianist and brilliant tutor. Fantastic event people. LJ

2008-11-29T23:36:00.000Z

nice playing mary and a interesting mind set it up you in from what you have said in your post interview

2008-11-29T23:35:00.001Z

adam swain is a hero