| Music for 18 Musicians | |
Compilation produite par Colin Berry pour le magazine Wired et David McLees pour Rhino Records Extrait du livret accompagnant la parution du CD : " PULSE - Steve Reich Steve Reich--along with Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and La Monte Young--remains the quintessential composer of the minimalist school, an artist reacting to the bebop he heard in his youth, the Bach he studied while at Cornell, and the emerging technology he saw influencing early-'60s music-making. Like its visual counterpart, minimalism is an art form based on process: tape loops or repeated phrases often compose the music's center, and staggered rhythmic patterns create interesting sonic interference. Minimalism is fascinating, hypnotic, and transportational once the listener pierces the austere shell that surrounds it. This excerpted piece is only a glimpse into Reich's fascinating portfolio. Minimalism was and is the soundtrack to our fragmented age, nodding to numbing repetition and groupthink within contemporary culture even as it transcends it, evoking a simpler, more meditative time--past or future. Reich's sample also anticipates the arrival of digital technology and the era when samplers and sequencers began to replicate what his musicians played by hand and he sliced into loops. " Sortie : le 16 février 1999 chez WEA/Atlantic/Rhino 75607 |
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