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Steve Reich
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. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns, as on the early compositions It's Gonna Rain and Come Out, and the use of simple, audible processes, as on Pendulum Music and Four Organs. Works like Drumming and Music for 18 Musicians, both considered landmarks of minimalism and important influences on experimental music, rock, and contemporary electronic music, would help entrench minimalism as a movement. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
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LIFE 2024
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American Classical Music 2017
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LIFE (Extended) 2024
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Minimalism for Autumn: Vol. II 2024
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Patterns in Motion: The Great Minimalists 2024
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A Minimal Space 2024
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Minimalism: Winter Nights 2024
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Minimalism for Autumn 2023
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Avant garde 2017
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Steve Reich: The String Quartets 2023
Singles & EPs
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Electric Counterpoint (Performed By Wiek Hijmans) EP • 2013
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2x5 (Remixed) Single • 2011
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The Four Sections / Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ Single • 2005
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Steve Reich: Tehillim EP • 1982
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Electric Counterpoint Single
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Indonesian gamelan medley from Java, Sunda and Bali Aurél Holló • 1.6M views
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Clapping Music for 5 Performers (by Santi Carcasona) Santi Carcasona • 942K views
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Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint 1 Fast (Sheet Music) 🎶🎵 InfiniteMusic888 • 4.3K views
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Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint I, II, III" performed by Jonny Greenwood at BKS Fred de Graaf • 388K views
Artist-made playlists
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Works for Orchestra Playlist • Steve Reich • 670 views
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Vocal & Choral Works Playlist • Steve Reich • 366 views
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