Indaba Music has announced a Steve Reich remix contest: Steve Reich is one of about five people still living who can claim to have altered the landscape of music forever. In the contemporary music world there is no composer more influential or studied. Moreover, Mr. Reich has already been remixed by the likes of DJ… Read More Steve Reich Remix Contest
Free Music Software: Reichatron is a free phase shifting looper effect for Reaktor 5, inspired by Steve Reich and his early loop pieces. It was created by Matt Mower: Reichatron is a sample playing instrument that grew out of my desire to experiment with phase-shifted looping (a la Steve Reich’s early works It’s Gonna Rain… Read More Free Phase Shifting Looper Inspired By Steve Reich
Brian Eno on Steve Reich: I was interested in the experimental ideas of Cornelius Cardew, John Cage and Gavin Bryars, but also in pop music. Pop was all about the results and the feedback. The experimental side was interested in process more than the actual result – the results just happened and there was often… Read More Brian Eno On Steve Reich
Free Music Software: In the late 60’s composer Steve Reich stumbled across a technique he called phasing, which was to have two identical tape loops that run at slightly different speeds, the result is that every possible combination of sound is cycled through until they arrive back in sync. The result with a melodic piece… Read More Phase Shifter Plugin Like Instant Steve Reich
This video demos 12Step – a neural sequencer developed by Ted Hayes at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) for New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME). Software used: Puredata 0.41.4-extended, Ableton Live 8, Native Instruments Akoustik Piano. via Tedb0t: first iteration of software model with manual (software) input, demonstrating high-weight selection, multiple concurrent sequences, weight randomization… Read More The 12Step Program For Music Sequencing
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Torley’s Tangerine Dream Love On A Real Train Piano Variations is a classical piano work based on Tangerine Dream’s electronic music based on Steve Reich’s classical ensemble works based on his experimental electroacoustic work and his experiences with West African rhythms. Torley explains it better: I was humming Tangerine Dream’s Love on a Real Train… Read More Free Download: Variations On Tangerine Dream’s Love On A Real Train
This is a visualization of Steve Reich’s Clapping Music. via DJparadiddle
Here’s a must-see Pitchfork.TV video of Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore talking with Steve Reich at last year’s SXSW conference. While Reich is best known for his acoustic works, his early electroacoustic works have been some of his most influential.
This is off-topic, but these are some amazing performances. Above, Dame Evelyn Glennie perform’s Steve Reich’s Clapping Music. Below, Clapping Music done by jugglers:
