Comment sont joués les sons de City Life ?
Comment sont joués les sons de City Life ?
Dans ses œuvres précédentes, Steve Reich utilisait des sons enregistrés sur bande magnétique. Pour City Life, il expérimente l'échantillonneur (en anglais : sampler). Les sons sont mis en mémoire dans un échantillonneur et ils sont ensuite joués sur scène grâce à un clavier, comme si c'étaient des instruments.
What is Stephen Reich's style of music?
- Reich performing Clapping Music in 2006. Stephen Michael Reich (/raɪʃ/ born Octo) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
What are the characteristics of Reinhard Reich's work?
- Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. His compositional style reflects his explicit rejection of Western classical traditions, serialism, and indeterminacy, because, unlike these traditions, he sought to create music in which the compositional process was discernible in the music itself.
What is the music in Plastic Haircut by Steve Reich?
- The soundtrack of Plastic Haircut, composed in 1963, was a short tape collage, possibly Reich's first. The Watermelons soundtrack used two 19th-century minstrel tunes as its basis, and used repeated phrasing together in a large five-part canon.
Why did Steve Reich stop making Pendulum Music?
- "Pendulum Music" has never been recorded by Reich himself, but was introduced to rock audiences by Sonic Youth in the late 1990s. Reich also tried to create the phasing effect in a piece "that would need no instrument beyond the human body". He found that the idea of phasing was inappropriate for the simple ways he was experimenting to make sound.
