Fuck yeah, going to a Steve Reich experience tomorrow. Not a concert, but a "Music for 18 Musicians" listening session in something called "The Black Box" with "visuals" #SteveReich
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@boysmithers.bsky.socialFuck yeah, going to a Steve Reich experience tomorrow. Not a concert, but a "Music for 18 Musicians" listening session in something called "The Black Box" with "visuals" #SteveReich
@librejournal.bsky.social𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗰𝗵, 𝟵𝟬 𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Presque un siècle de #musique sans jamais cesser d’inventer. #SteveReich a fait de la répétition un art, et quel art ! Le label ECM réunit plusieurs de ses œuvres dans un coffret. Une belle occasion de retrouver son univers.
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@thequietus.com'Reich hit upon the idea of using the recollection of his travelling as a child on a train between New York and LA while addressing the disparity between those memories and what was happening to Jews in Europe at that time'
Different Trains (1988) The Strange World Of… #SteveReich
@thethealbert.bsky.socialSteve Reich "Music For 18 Musicians", ECM, 1978 (2026 reissue). #stevereich #musicfor18musicians #ecmrecords #vinyl #nowplaying #musicsky #vinylsky #vinylcommunity #classicalsky
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@derekgneal.bsky.socialHas anyone ever made a ballet out of Steve Reich's 'Piano Phase?' Could choreograph well, I'm thinking. Not that I really know anything about ballet.
#SteveReich #ballet #contemporarymusic
@thequietus.com'A hugely influential piece that helped to bridge the gap between minimalism, rock music & dance music, Electric Counterpoint explored the concept of a live soloist playing against a layered pre-recorded tape of themselves'
Electric Counterpoint - The Strange World Of #SteveReich
@thequietus.com'Rather than writing a traditional orchestral concerto, Reich played off the different instrument groups of the orchestra – strings, percussion, woodwind and brass – against each other...'
The Four Sections (1987) The Strange World Of… #SteveReich
@thequietus.com'Attains an astounding intensity of feeling by looking squarely at the possibility of mankind’s destruction by its own hand, whilst offering a transcendent litany of music and human voices as an argument for its continued existence'
The Desert Music: Strange World Of #SteveReich
@thequietus.comOur Strange World of #SteveReich piece comes with a playlist of 20 tracks by the influential minimalist composer, who turned 90 last week
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@thequietus.com'A further refinement of the expansion of harmonic and textural devices of 18 Musicians, and surely one of Reich’s most beautiful and optimistic sounding pieces.'
Octet (1980) The Strange World Of… #SteveReich
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialJonathan Blumhofer writes that ECM Records NewSeries’ reissue of composer #stevereich's seminal early recordings restores their bite, rigor, and uncommon spiritual warmth.
@thequietus.com'For me, Reich’s music has always accessed the “cauldron of creative form”, “god’s workshop”, or whatever else one might call that realm, and the piece’s imagistic counterpart perfectly complemented that process.'
Reich / Richter (2019) The Strange World Of… #SteveReich
@thequietus.com'One of Reich's most radical examples of minimalist music, Clapping Music is only surpassed by La Monte Young’s epically extended drone pieces, and John Cage’s 4’ 33” in terms of reduction of instrumental content'
Clapping Music (1972) The Strange World Of… #SteveReich
@rokewood.bsky.socialWe were out at a dear friend’s Birthday lunch, so I’ve a lot of catching up to do. For BBCRadio3 celebrated the 90th Birthday of #SteveReich with some splendid concerts. I was able to hear this fascinating doc from poet Paul Farley on SR & the birth of *phasing*
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@mattucker.bsky.socialI made this documentary about Steve Reich 20 years ago - 20 years!! Anyway, a very happy 90th birthday to him 🥂 #stevereich #bbcradio3 youtu.be/e_pR1sHHeQU?...
@thequietus.com'If you’re watching it live, the work of the four pianists playing their steady, interlocking patterns of notes with on and off-beat pulses for around an hour is really something to experience.'
Music For 18 Musicians (1974-76) The Strange World Of… #SteveReich
