yeah. here's reich's statementAs a composer I want people to listen to my music without something distracting them. The present cover of WTC 9/11 will, for many, act as a distraction from listening and so, with the gracious agreement of Nonesuch, the cover is being changed.
When the cover was being designed, I believed, as did all the staff at Nonesuch and the art director, that a piece of music with documentary material from an event would best be matched with a documentary photograph of that event. I felt that the photo suggested by our art director was very powerful, and Nonesuch backed me up. All of us felt that anyone seeing the cover would feel the same way.
When the cover was released on the Nonesuch site and elsewhere, there was, instead, an outpouring of controversy mostly by people who had never heard the music.
When WTC 9/11 was performed by the Kronos Quartet, first in Durham, North Carolina, at Duke University and then shortly afterwards outside of Los Angeles and then at Carnegie Hall and again at the Barbican Centre in London, the reaction of the public and press was extremely thoughtful and moving. To have this reaction to the music usurped by the album cover seemed completely wrong. Accordingly, the cover is being changed.
I want to thank Nonesuch for backing up my original decision about the cover and for backing up my decision now to change it so we can put the focus back where it belongs, on the music.
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, there's is so much potential for artistic interpretation around this enormous earth-shattering event and so many powerful existing images.
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
a fellow composer called it “the first truly despicable classical album cover that I have ever seen.” …
truly despicable classical album covers i have known
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
I am going to fathom a guess that the fellow composer was not Karlheinz Stockhausen...
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
has he seen this one? http://forums.kickassclassical.com/download/file.php?id=57&sid=1230858b777c644635f6a417935a3bec
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
i don't find it offensive but it does seem like its being turned into album cover art twisted something about the way the image would be seen that would be unacceptable to people who are probably within their rights.
i'm not even sure it could be pulled off without lettering, but lettering automatically makes an image read, somehow, as if someone is saying 'awesome' about it, or as if the name above it is proud of it.
― j., Friday, 12 August 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
Or like, in terms of a musician, "I am this - it represents me."
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg4-AtqhKh8
― WilliamC, Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
hey i like the johnny greenwood electric counterpoint
― schlump, Saturday, 4 October 2014 03:51 (nine years ago) link
http://clappingmusicapp.com/
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 9 July 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link
came up on my Facebook today but only for iphone, screw you Reich
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 July 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
NYC Aug 5
http://www.lcoutofdoors.org/events/full-band-electric-counterpoint-dither-and-friends-featuring-lee-ranaldo-yo-la-tengo-and-mark-stewart-matmos
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
Am I a rhythmical klutz or is the clapping music app hard mode really fucking hard?
― ledge, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhMiuzyU1ag
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
Braggin'
http://i66.tinypic.com/28aurle.jpg
― mitch bagnet (MaresNest), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
Tonight at 7:30 (UK time) The Royal College of Music are livestreaming a concert of and Reich will be there too.
The program is Clapping Music, Double Sextet, Three Movements and Quartet.
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/live/
― MaresNest, Thursday, 10 March 2016 10:20 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/MrJamesMay/status/708045234668773376
― Brakhage, Thursday, 10 March 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I saw him at the interval, he was up in the balcony/area with the hob nobs, like the big berry faced wanker he is.
― MaresNest, Friday, 11 March 2016 12:29 (eight years ago) link
What was the girl miming with sound effects all about? Is there a compulsory bit where someone must abase themselves for the amusement of royalty, lest the high minded art lend the occasion too much dignity.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 11 March 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, no idea what that was all about, it was earlier in the day I guess.
― MaresNest, Friday, 11 March 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ib8Fdmp1hE
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
i know this is insane but now i can't help but hear one of the street recording snippets in the first movement of "different trains' "trump's the problem. from new york. trump's the problem. from new york" instead of "from chicago. to new york." trump has infiltrated and ruined every part of me
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 July 2017 06:29 (six years ago) link
see also: nellie the elephant
― The XX pants (ledge), Monday, 24 July 2017 08:52 (six years ago) link
Live in a couple of hours: clapping music, quartet, drumming.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/079679-001-A/weekend-steve-reich-a-la-fondation-louis-vuitton-concert-1/
― StanM, Saturday, 2 December 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
Thank you!
― MaresNest, Saturday, 2 December 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
^^^ OTM
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 2 December 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
even better: it's three concerts in a row - tomorrow as well
http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/expositions/exposition-moma0/weekend-special-steve-reich.html
― StanM, Saturday, 2 December 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/expositions/exposition-moma0/weekend-special-steve-reich.html <- in English
― StanM, Saturday, 2 December 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
Reich always gets namechecked in pieces about artists I really like (Tangerine Dream, Tortoise, Nik Bartsch) but I guess I've only heard the "wrong" stuff because I don't especially like anything I've heard. Clapping and Four Organs grate on me; I have a soft spot for It's Gonna Rain but a little of that phasing fuckery goes a long way. Guessing I need to hear Drumming or MF18M to get the polyrhythmic zen funk marimba jams? What else?
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
Music For A Large Ensemble. Go!
― Armand Frippanino (Noel Emits), Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
Although I wouldn't call it Zen funk, it's more lush than that suggests, I believe that is the marimba hit you seek / require.
― Armand Frippanino (Noel Emits), Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
clapping and four organs are definitely not going to hit your emotional core as well as some of his other pieces. likewise drumming as a whole (honestly, part iv is the best once all the instruments come together).
for stuff to feel deep-ass feelings to:music for 18 musicianstehillim (and in this vein, genesis xxi from the cave)octet/music for a large ensemblesix pianoselectric counterpoint
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Excellent. Thanks, all. Lots to check out here.
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
Different Trains
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
Drumming is fkn awesome.
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
There are multiple versions of Music for 18 Musicians; a lot of people prefer the ECM version, but I like the Nonesuch version better because that's the one I heard first.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
they both slap afaic
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
yep
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 27 April 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
the fast section of Electric Counterpoint is a surprisingly effective DJ drop in the right circumstances.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, 27 April 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
I would chip in The Four Sections, def cosign Music For A Large Ensemble, Sextet and Double Sextet, the big event chord at the start of the 2nd movement of Double Sextet is my favourite moment of his, it's gorgeous.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 28 April 2019 12:05 (four years ago) link
ooooh yeah re: four sections
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Sunday, 28 April 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
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This is exactly what I was hoping for. thank you!
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 29 April 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
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― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 10:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSNV9EGB3s
After composing a series of ground-breaking pieces in 1967 that employed phasing, Steve Reich decided that he wanted to explore phasing past the realms of tape and live performance by experimenting with electronic instrumentation. To that end, with the help of friends at Bell Laboratories, Reich created the Phase Shifting Pulse Gate, a kind of manually-operated sequencer specifically designed to facilitate the phasing technique. Despite having spent a year and a half on the development of the Pulse Gate, Reich quickly grew dissatisfied with its lifeless, mechanical nature and resolved to return to using more performer-dependent instrumentation. This piece, along with its companion 'Four Log Drums', have since been discarded by Reich.
This recording of Pulse Music (excerpted here in a French radio broadcast) was made at the work's second performance on May 27th 1969 at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 16 June 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
I went to the recent Reich Richter Pärt show in NYC (new music by Reich, new art by Richter, some slightly older Pärt works) and wrote about it.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 16 June 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
your conclusion is one i've heard from everyone who went, though sometimes in much harsher terms
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 16 June 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
Steve Reich basically all I have listened to for several days now
― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 August 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
Just wait until you hear a second composition.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 August 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
? not sure if that's a joke or not
― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 August 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
i listened to 18 musicians continuously for a few days in a row once
― j., Friday, 23 August 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link