Stephen Reich
Stephen Michael Reich (October 3, 1936) is an American composer best known for making ambient music in the mid to late 1960s.[1][2][3] Reich's work has repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich says 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 phrases playing it slower or faster than the others, making it go "out of phase." This makes new musical patterns in a noticeable flow.[4]
References
- ↑ Mertens, W. (1983), American Minimal Music, London: Kahn & Averill (p. 11).
- ↑ Michael Nyman, writing in the preface of Mertens' book refers to the style as "so called minimal music"[clarification needed] (Mertens p. 8).
- ↑ "The term 'minimal music' is generally used to describe a style of music that developed in America in the late 1960s and 1970s; and that was initially connected with the composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass." Sitsky, L. (2002), Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook,Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut. (p. 361)
- ↑ Colannino, Justin; Gómez, Francisco; Toussaint, Godfried T. (2009). "Analysis of Emergent Beat-Class Sets in Steve Reich's 'Clapping Music' and the Yoruba Bell Timeline". Perspectives of New Music. 47 (1): 111–134. ISSN 0031-6016. JSTOR 25652402.