Toop 199: "Saties used the device of repeating short, neutral fragments of meoldy for his soundtrack to René Clair's short film of 1924, Entr'acte [...] they clearly prefigure the strain of minimalism represented by Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Michael Nyman"
"In another Satie piece, Vieux sequins et vielles cuirasses (1913), Satie instructs the pianist to repeat the final passage 380 times, the early equivalent of a locking groove at the end of a vinyl record"
and Vexations (1893)
the entire piece to be repeated 840 times
interesting side note: "Satie [...] studied alchemy, the occult, and Medieval music forms [...] Vexations turns out to be a heading from a work written by Paracelsus" (Toop 200)
"Satie's preparatory instruction ['prepare beforehand in deep silence and serious immobility'] suggests a meditation through which the ability to play this arduous piece will shine through and be rewarded by illumination"