Steve Reich
minimalism · contemporary classical · experimental · Avant-Garde · Classical
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Stephen Michael Reich is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich describes this concept in his essay "Music as a Gradual Process" by stating, "I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music." For example, his early works experiment with phase shifting, in which one or more repeated phrases plays slower or faster than the others, causing it to go "out of phase." This creates new musical patterns in a perceptible flow.
Top Tracks
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Electric Counterpoint: III. Fast
Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint
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Reich: Duet
LIFE
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New York Counterpoint: II. Slow
New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs
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Music for 18 Musicians part I & II
Utopia Americana Reload
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New York Counterpoint: III. Fast
New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs
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Mallet Quartet: III. Fast
Reich : WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns
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Different Trains: After the war
Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint
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Four Organs
Works 1965-1995
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Different Trains: America—Before the war
Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint
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Electric Counterpoint: II. Slow
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