POX: Steve Reich

even better: it's three concerts in a row - tomorrow as well

http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/expositions/exposition-moma0/weekend-special-steve-reich.html

http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/expositions/exposition-moma0/weekend-special-steve-reich.html <- in English

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?

Music For A Large Ensemble. Go!

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.

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 musicians
tehillim (and in this vein, genesis xxi from the cave)
octet/music for a large ensemble
six pianos
electric counterpoint

Excellent. Thanks, all. Lots to check out here.

Different Trains

Drumming is fkn awesome.

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.

they both slap afaic

yep

the fast section of Electric Counterpoint is a surprisingly effective DJ drop in the right circumstances.

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.

ooooh yeah re: four sections

Music For A Large Ensemble. Go!

― Armand Frippanino (Noel Emits), Saturday, April 27, 2019 5:12 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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, April 27, 2019 5:16 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is exactly what I was hoping for. thank you!

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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.

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.

your conclusion is one i've heard from everyone who went, though sometimes in much harsher terms

Steve Reich basically all I have listened to for several days now

Just wait until you hear a second composition.

? not sure if that's a joke or not

i listened to 18 musicians continuously for a few days in a row once

That was a total joke. I love Steve Reich.

I don't like all of his stuff - or rather, there's some of it I don't feel like listening to more than once, and then there's some stuff that seems like it should just go on forever (Music for 18 Musicians, Phase Patterns etc.)

Yea I feel the same

Kinda want to do a poll of all his second (slow) movements

Just wait until you hear a second composition.

That was a total joke. I love Steve Reich.

the title of Philip Glass's "Music With Changing Parts" always cracks me up along these lines

(lovingly - but not as much as I <3 Reich, though, xp, same here in that not all of it grabs me; that said, the first few times I put on the Early Works disc I didn't get it at all and then many years later I happened to put on It's Gonna Rain on headphones late at night and was entranced, so maybe the ones I don't care for are just waiting for their moments)

(apologies for mentioning SR's former furniture moving partner here, I gather neither of them would appreciate the crossreference)

I like his percussion/phase music best, not as keen as the pseudo-narrative works he did later on.

i've listened to various other pieces of his music and it's not that i don't find them worthwhile, it's just that i could just as well hear '18' over and over until i die, and can hardly imagine needing to hear anything else in between. which is pretty weird. generally i very much think hearing other work by an artist would be illuminating, more of a good thing, etc., but at best i just suppose that maybe in 30 or 40 years i'll get around to the rest of reich.

Kinda want to do a poll of all his second (slow) movements

― MaresNest, Friday, August 23, 2019 11:53 PM (yesterday)

Electric Counterpoint would get my vote, TBH, I think the slow movements are often the least successful/interesting parts of Reich's pieces, especially the later ones.

I think the key with getting into steve reich’s other pieces is the time it takes to get through them. He’s got lots of great works that take like 15-20 minutes to play (octet, music for a large ensemble, tehellim, electric counterpoint, six pianos). he has a few pieces like one of the genesis tracks on the cave that blow me away in like 3 minutes.

XP - Oh I love most of them, especially those that that start with a big 'event' chord like Double Sextet, the slower and more delicate ones.

There’s something about simplicity of vision that makes it easily mocked, when it’s often a virtue.

otm the man has style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEgrN1QTAqE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqQVSohnLdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShgWc2OlQdc

Really thought that was going to be a parody using an Eminem acapella

Nice idea, I made one - https://soundcloud.com/nowherians/reich-eminem_1

Very cool.

Haha omg, yes

Please post this on youtube with a serious title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78wdMc3m7U

i love this

gets to the emotional core that the slow sections of tehillim do so well

also i was playing this and my son goes "this sounds like steve reich" so thats cool

Your son OTM

It's like an extrapolated version of that beautiful second movement of WTC 9-11

By which I mean third movement, duh