- Violin Phase is a musical work written by minimalist composer Steve Reich in October 1967. (wikipedia.org)
- It is the third in a series of instrumental compositions (together with Reed Phase and Piano Phase) in which Reich explored the possibility of phasing in music for a live player with tape accompaniment or, in the case of Piano Phase, for just two players (Potter 2000, 180). (wikipedia.org)
- Drumming is based on the music of the minimalist composer Steve Reich. (parts.be)
- At 70, perpetually baseball cap-clad New York composer Steve Reich, whose groundbreaking compositions have helped change the course of music in the latter 20th century, continues to produce works whose repeating patterns and ever-varying textures dazzle the senses with their brilliance and complexity. (gaycitynews.com)
- I have no idea if Reich ever inhaled, but the out of phase effects he achieves in such compositions as "Drumming," when the timing of different lines slowly shifts, can induce a euphoric "lift off" high similar to that experienced at the start of acid-augmented journeys. (gaycitynews.com)
- Steve Reich is an American minimalist composer. (cubouldermusictheory.com)
- The concert then lost its momentum, but Steve Reich's Piano Phase reminded us why Reich has become so ubiquitous and retains such a following. (bachtrack.com)
- Like Philip Glass , John Adams , and Terry Riley , Steve Reich belongs to a group of composers known as " minimalists, " who write music based largely on patterns of repetition. (encyclopedia.com)
- While at Cornell he was introduced to many types of music by the musicologist William Austin, and by the time he graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1957, Reich had decided to become a composer. (encyclopedia.com)
- Reich then began to experiment with this process, which became known as " phasing, " in works for acoustic instruments, such as Piano Phase and Violin Phase , both written in 1967. (encyclopedia.com)
- The composer founded the group Steve Reich and Musicians in 1966 for the purpose of performing his music, which called for various combinations of instrumentalists and vocalists. (encyclopedia.com)
- Steve Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who pioneered the style of minimalist music. (tigerwithin.info)
- When Jeremy Gill introduced veteran percussion ensemble Nexus on just the second night of Rockport Music Festival's 35th season, the genial composer / conductor served Shalin Liu Center's classically steeped audience fair warning: with a wink, he predicted highly individualistic reactions to the deceptively simple, stark music of New York minimalist Steve Reich. (classical-scene.com)
- Steve Reich: Piano Phase Context Steve Reich is known for his contributions to the minimalist movement of the twentieth century. (classicalexburns.com)
- Different Trains " (1988) has been called "the only adequate musical response-one of the few adequate artistic responses in any medium-to the Holocaust ", and was credited with earning Reich a place among the great composers of the 20th century. (en-academic.com)
- Inspired by the minimal, phase and pattern musics of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Terry Riley, yet frustrated by the ecstatic detachment from reality they can encourage, Melnyk created Continuous Music, based in the innovations of the minimalist composers but with its roots more deeply planted in harmony. (adventuresinsightandsound.com)
- Few, I think, would question the actual worth of the music or how it was performed, but the Beethoven and Schumann are played year in and out - even the latter's problematical choral setting of scenes from Goethe's Faust is no longer the rarity it once was - and Reich is among our most often performed and recorded senior composers. (nymag.com)
- It was my bad luck to draw two Steve Reich concerts that, for me at least, contained some of his least nourishing music: four early pieces constructed from phase repetition - Come Out (1966), Piano Phase (1967), Violin Phase (1967), and Clapping Music (1972) - and his first major experiment with music theater, The Cave (1993), a collaboration with his wife, video artist Beryl Korot. (nymag.com)
- They address a variety of topics including Drumming and other works by Steve Reich, performance practice, analysis of phasing, music production issues, musings on Reich's compositions, and Reich's own thoughts on percussion and rhythm. (drummingat50.com)
- Steve Reich - In 2020, Steve Reich revised the "Notes by the Composer" for the Boosey & Hawkes score to Drumming , which was first published in 2011. (drummingat50.com)
- Lauren Vogel Weiss - Steve Reich was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2007 joining some of the members of his ensemble and other esteemed composers of music for percussion. (drummingat50.com)
- Steve Reich - The composer of Drumming discusses musical intuition, time feel, speech rhythms, electronics, the music of India, and how he uses rhythm in his compositions. (drummingat50.com)
- Russell Hartenberger - An overview of Russell Hartenberger's book that provides a performer's perspective on Steve Reich's compositions from his iconic minimalist work, Drumming , to his masterpiece, Music for 18 Musicians . (drummingat50.com)
- Michael Schutz and NEXUS describe their study to find out what really happens during a phase in Drumming . (drummingat50.com)
- Violin Phase is an example of Reich's phasing technique, previously used in It's Gonna Rain, Come Out, Reed Phase, and Piano Phase, in which the music itself is created not by the instruments but by interactions of temporal variations on an original melody. (wikipedia.org)
- The music may be minimalist, but the numbers are not. (gaycitynews.com)
- Did you know that the phase-shifting (gradual shifting of a pattern against itself) in Steve Reich's* music often follows an underlying structural principle? (cubouldermusictheory.com)
- Credits to Richard Cohn's article "Transpositional Combination of Beat-Class Sets in Steve Reich's Phase-Shifting Music," Perspectives of New Music 30/2 (1992) for first demonstrating these mechanics and explaining the theory behind them. (cubouldermusictheory.com)
- An essential figure in neoclassical music, Mr Richter is considered one of the main influences for post-minimalist composers. (fondationlouisvuitton.fr)
- Max Richter stands as one of the most prodigious figures on the contemporary music scene, with ground-breaking work as a composer, pianist, producer, and collaborator. (fondationlouisvuitton.fr)
- He is classically trained, studying at Edinburgh University, the Royal Academy of Music, London, and completing his studies with composer Luciano Berio in Florence. (fondationlouisvuitton.fr)
- Minimalism came into prominence when many American composers tired of what they considered the over-rigorous, emotionally bankrupt style of music that was held up as an example when they were students. (encyclopedia.com)
- Without dwelling too much on the biographical details, though, it's important to note that Julius Eastman was black - and openly, even aggressively, gay (his 'interpretation' of John Cage's Songbooks at SUNY Buffalo in 1975, in which he spoke frankly about sex and publicly undressed another man provoked a furious reaction from the composer himself: 'the freedom in my music does not mean the freedom to be irresponsible! (paristransatlantic.com)
- Sure enough: after the shocking barrage of five players' piercingly vivid clavé strikes, wood on wood in wood in Music for Pieces of Wood, and the mellower resonating duos on Garry Kvistad's handmade marimbas comprising Mallet Phase, I scanned the ⅔-filled hall to note neither obvious nod-offs nor walk-outs (a less savory alternative). (classical-scene.com)
- This lasted for a short time before he began being seriously interested in creating minimalist music, and ambient structures for classical instruments. (classicalexburns.com)
- It is a fundamental key that has been used by composers across various time periods and styles, and its historical significance is an essential aspect to consider when examining its role in piano music. (skuteczni.org)
- In the Classical period, composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven also utilized the key of C major extensively in their piano music. (skuteczni.org)
- In the Romantic period, composers such as Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt continued to use the key of C major in their piano music. (skuteczni.org)
- Seattle guitarist Bill Horist is an improviser/composer/performer in a wide array of genres including rock, jazz, contemporary chamber, avant-garde, folk, new music and several subgenres within each. (waywardmusic.org)
- But here's a taster of the bold new sounds awaiting: Gang Of Youth's new music will fuse their knack of soaring melodies, indelible hooks and dynamic rock uplifts with a love of neoclassical, minimalist composers and experimental sampling. (iheart.com)
- Fanshawe was an English composer and globe-trotting musicologist who compiled a comprehensive archive of indigenous music. (iheart.com)
- The artistic mastery of Elliott Sharp over his long career has taken primarily three shapes: as an innovative guitarist in blues rock (Terraplane) and avant jazz contexts, as a jazz composer-bandleader, and as a new music composer. (blogspot.com)
- Another aspect of his music relates to the dichotomies and oppositions between pulse and contrasting explosive disruptions and noise, a vividly bipolar set of tendencies that have played out between and against the Downtown Music minimalist composers and the Downtown avant improvisational artists. (blogspot.com)
- The new music composition of his mature phase goes beyond improvisations per se but does not feel a one-to-one affinity with typical compositional trends either. (blogspot.com)
- In other words, this is music of the modern now by a composer-artist of great importance to the now in which we live. (blogspot.com)
- From Wayward Music Series: "Canadian composer and pianist Lubomyr Melnyk is the pioneer of Continuous Music - a piano technique he has developed since the 1970s that uses extremely rapid notes and note-series to create a rich, pulsating tapestry of sound. (adventuresinsightandsound.com)
- More recently she cites a fascination with Moroccan music from the 80s as well as 80s and 90s pop from the Ivory Coast and 80s minimalist composers from Portugal and Italy. (ableton.com)
- Guillemot readily acknowledges that her varying phases of musical interest feed into her music. (ableton.com)
- And even in the past when classical music was very clearly identified, classical composers would often draw on folk music or tunes as inspiration for their compositions. (angrybearblog.com)
- I found myself muttering that same dreaded line, too, when reading Words Without Music , Glass's 400-page memoir about his life as a composer - muttering it not about Glass's compositional legacy, which is very much music and, in fact, some of the most important music of the last half century, but about the book itself. (lareviewofbooks.org)
- One motivation for the minimalist revolution that spawned Reich's style in the sixties was presumably a reaction to the dry abstractions of academic serialists who, we are continually told, terrorized new-music circles in those days. (nymag.com)
- Reich's four phase pieces seem even more barren when heard as an accompaniment to Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's choreography, which so accurately and chillingly reflects the relentless geometric progress of the music. (nymag.com)
- The flickering colors and shifting mosaic of rhythm that characterize the music that opens and closes the piece seem to evoke a darkened nighttime landscape passing outside the window of a train, and thus the composer chose Night Journey for the title. (secondinversion.org)
- 6 December 1933 - 12 November 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. (morrissey-solo.com)
- In 1992, 15 years after it was composed, a recording of his Symphony of Sorrowful Songs with soprano Dawn Upshaw and conductor David Zinman, released to commemorate the memory of those lost during the Holocaust, became a worldwide commercial and critical success, selling more than a million copies and vastly exceeding the typical lifetime sales of a recording of symphonic music by a 20th-century composer. (morrissey-solo.com)
- A stunning, minimalist contemporary classical piece by the Glasgow-based composer, performed by the chamber music duo GAIA. (bandcamp.com)
- Music can be borrowed from stocks or recorded to order from a composer. (techfans.net)
- An associate of Peter Zummo and Arthur Russell, Leach was an active member of the city's DownTown Ensemble, a group of musicians and composers dedicated to promoting new music. (manuelzurria.com)
- He's still M. Night Shyamalan's goto composer churning out consistently good music despite the mediocre films. (dailyfilmdose.com)
- Is there a trend toward minimalism, or are we just getting unmemorable music from the former big name composers like Danny Elfman or Howard Shore? (dailyfilmdose.com)
- Readers, please chime in on some of the great music scores or composers we need to recognize in the last 5 years or so. (dailyfilmdose.com)
- vague] The most conspicuous difference between a "live" process piece like Violin Phase and Reich's tape pieces is that the latter consist of "pure phasing", with a slow and regular rate of change, whereas the live pieces are "stepped", alternating sections of gradual dephasing with sections of temporary rhythmic stability (Warburton 1988, 144). (wikipedia.org)
- Both works are also included in "Phases," a just-released, five-CD career retrospective set from Nonesuch that features 14 of Reich's best-known compositions. (gaycitynews.com)
- Reich's style of composition has influenced many other composers and musical groups, John Adams, the progressive rock band King Crimson , and the art-pop and electronic musician Brian Eno . (en-academic.com)
- Russell Hartenberger - A look at the origins of Piano Phase played on two marimbas, the end of phasing as a compositional tool, some of the techniques required to play Marimba Phase , and Garry Kvistad's adaptation of the piece for just intonation-tuned instruments. (drummingat50.com)
- This unique programme of concerts and musical promenades is divided into three phases over the course of the exhibition: in November 2023, January 2024 and March 2024. (fondationlouisvuitton.fr)
- His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns, and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts. (tigerwithin.info)
- In Violin Phase, two violins are recorded and played back, together at first. (wikipedia.org)
- Violin Phase (Paul Zukofsky, violin), and It's Gonna Rain. (wikipedia.org)
- Violin Phase recorded Mar. 1980 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg. (wikipedia.org)
- Richter skilfully employs looped and phased parts of pure Vivaldi which emphasise his postmodern and minimalist credentials. (prestomusic.com)
- Negotiating these mirror(ing) phases obviously cast a long backward glance at postmodern questions of replication and reproduction, but it also recognized that the cumulative ability to transfer, transport, translate and transform, all subsumed and made available under transcoding, had leveled the playing field for a rather predictable set of artistic games to begin anew in a pioneering context. (artinfo.ru)
- As part of the "Mark Rothko" exhibition, German-British composer and pianist Max Richter calls the Fondation home for an exceptional residency. (fondationlouisvuitton.fr)
- Father of the classical pianist Anna Górecka (2) and composer Mikołaj Górecki. (morrissey-solo.com)
- Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968's barricade-hopping. (squidco.com)
- David Watson is an experimental guitarist, bagpiper, improviser and composer. (waywardmusic.org)
- 2] The book consists of fourteen chapters (only three of which are authored by women) that offer perspectives from musicologists, theorists, composers, and performers. (mtosmt.org)
- This later style developed through several other distinct phases, from such works as his 1979 Beatus Vir, to the 1981 choral hymn Miserere, the 1993 Kleines Requiem für eine Polka and his requiem Good Night.Górecki was largely unknown outside Poland until the late 1980s. (morrissey-solo.com)
- Click below for an animation that shows how the phase-shifting works. (cubouldermusictheory.com)
- The vocal pieces are like some of Ligeti's choral works, but a little more phased. (squidco.com)
- A milestone film from American composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock, presented for the first time in DVD with two alternate soundtracks. (squidco.com)
- Minimalism's trademarks include looping, phasing and repeated motifs. (bachtrack.com)
- Sob stories apart, the claim that's being made here is quite simply that Eastman is one of the great forgotten minimalist composers of his generation. (paristransatlantic.com)
- Over the years, the great composers have often stood as big as, or often bigger or more famous than the producer, director or even the film itself. (dailyfilmdose.com)
- First pick your minimalist and formalist preference for aesthetics that largely resemble pie charts or graphs in the form of lines or circles, then watch the drivers negotiate the traffic to render your masterpiece. (artinfo.ru)
- The late K. Robert Schwarz, in a new liner note for the disc, noted that although Four Organs is not a phase piece, there is no loosening of musical process. (nonesuch.com)
- Like Stockhausen's electronic pieces, Musique Concrete, or even Fripp and Eno's No Pussyfooting, the role of the producer/composer in "Hurdy Hurry" and "A Y U" is just as important as the role of the performer. (squidco.com)
- This almost became Freudian, with Haydn being called "Papa Haydn," whom all these later classical composers would rebel against, more and more, going to polytonality and atonal forms. (angrybearblog.com)
- Polish contemporary classical composer. (morrissey-solo.com)
- According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki. (morrissey-solo.com)
- In the history books Niblock is the forgotten Minimalist. (squidco.com)
- She discovered a creative process for herself, similarly used by composite colleagues, especially minimalist denominations. (manuelzurria.com)
- Members of Nexus demonstrate phasing and discuss their thoughts on the process. (drummingat50.com)
- Around then, I also heard the Brandenburg concertos [by Baroque composer J. S. Bach] and [Igor Stravinsky ' s 1913 ballet] The Rite of Spring for the first time, and that made an indelible impression on me. (encyclopedia.com)
- The canonic interplay creates a kind of layering of sounds, for a result that is akin to earlier phase pieces. (nonesuch.com)
- Instead it is a book about les amis , collaborations, and the general din of activity that makes up the life of a working composer. (lareviewofbooks.org)
- The phased production makes it possible to minimize unnecessary actions. (techfans.net)
- If you're going with a minimalist tech stack however, integrating everything makes less sense, as your needs for the development environment are not aligned with your needs for the production environment. (clever-cloud.com)
- This 'Phase' exemplified why the metamorphosing technique has such a mesmeric effect. (bachtrack.com)
- His piano playing was just as strong and distinctive, but it's as a composer that his work has - finally - come to our attention here, 15 years after his death in total obscurity and abject poverty at the age of 49. (paristransatlantic.com)
- Both established and unfamiliar composers will get attention. (blogspot.com)
- In cinema, and in particular Hollywood cinema, the film score or the composer has been one of the essential elements of technical cinema. (dailyfilmdose.com)
- The melodramatically titled Schumann Revealed concerts led by John Eliot Gardiner are yet to come as I write, so perhaps that conductor does have something startlingly new to tell us about this composer. (nymag.com)
- A French composer who has been working for years in France and only recently became a hot property in the English-speaking cinema. (dailyfilmdose.com)
- In the galleries of the exhibition, a musical itinerary from the composer presents an original dimension of his creation. (fondationlouisvuitton.fr)