#Steve Reich

[garadinervi]

«Aspen», the magazine in a box, Vol. 1 No. 8, Roaring Fork Press, New York, NY, 1966 [Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN]

Feat.: David Antin, Terry Atkinson, Jo Baer, Michael Baldwin, Philip Glass, Dan Graham, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Reich, Edward Ruscha, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, La Monte Young

#graphic design #art #fluxus #music #photography #magazine #aspen magazine #david antin #terry atkinson #jo baer #michael baldwin #philip glass #dan graham #jackson mac low #george maciunas #robert morris #dennis oppenheim #yvonne rainer #steve reich #edward ruscha #richard serra #robert smithson #la monte young #roaring fork press #1960s

[jgthirlwell]

05.04.24 Rebekah Heller plays Steve Reich’s Grand Street Counterpoint (the street both she and Steve live on!), for solo bassoon and 10 pre-recorded bassoons, based on Reich’s Cello Counterpoint from the early aughts. For the Long Play festival, at BRIC.

#Rebekah Heller #Steve Reich #Long Play festival

[thekingofgear]

Jonny's Fender Acoustic

This photo of Jonny playing a Fender dreadnought acoustic was taken by his son Tamir.

To help publicize their upcoming Steve Reich Festival, The Hallé recently shared this photo of Jonny playing a Fender dreadnought acoustic guitar. Jonny will be playing Reich's Electric Counterpoint on the third (and final) day of the festival.

Back in November 2012, Jonny answered fan and celebrity questions in an article for Uncut magazine. Nicolas Gauna from Buenos Aires asked Jonny about his first guitar and the first song he learned, and this was Jonny's reply:

I bought a Fender acoustic for £40 from a “for sale” column in the Oxford Journal when l was about 14, then an electric one from my teacher when l was 16. I still have the acoustic, but the electric one was stolen in Leeds on the first Radiohead tour (at the Duchess Of York, I think… it was a cream Telecaster if anyone's seen it). I don't remember working out many songs by other bands - maybe “Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads. There was a tiny guitar room at school where teenagers hung out playing each other U2 songs - but I never had any U2 records.

Given Jonny's penchant for stickers during his younger days, one can only assume that this is the same guitar that he played when he first strummed his way through Psycho Killer.

Based on the quote, the guitar was purchased in around ~1985, and was already used by that point. Fender had released their California series acoustics in 1983, but they were still relatively new and expensive. So it's more likely that the guitar is from Fender's standard F-series. Price lists show that the F-series was available from Fender through the 70s and 80s. The headstock confirms this: California series guitars have a Stratocaster-style headstock, whereas Jonny's has a more traditional acoustic headstock with the distinctive F-series notch in the center. In addition, we can see a square "Fender" label through the soundhole. A cursory glance through Fender F acoustics shows that the square label was used in the 70s and early-80s, particularly on Japanese-made instruments. They seem to have switched to a round label in the late-80s. This gives further evidence that the guitar in the picture really is Jonny's original acoustic.

Fender's acoustic and classical guitar offerings in April, 1977 (guitar-compare.com). Given the price Jonny paid for a used instrument, it seems very possible that he bought a 1970s F-35 model. The more expensive models like the F-65 had fancier inlays and details, whereas the one in the photo has simple dot inlays on the fingerboard.

#Radiohead #The Smile #Jonny Greenwood #Steve Reich #Talking Heads #U2 #Electric Counterpoint #Psycho Killer #Fender

[earhartsease]

thinking back to the days of cassette transfers from LPs and how we bought a C120 cassette so we could fit all of Steve Reich's Music For 18 Musicians on one side of it, and spent half an hour doing syncing nonsense so one side of the LP sort of seamlessly continued into the second side as it's one piece that's just over an hour long (and on the LP they fade out at the end of side A and fade in on side B) - and our grandmother's little fridge had a faulty suppressor, so the cassette recording had crackles on it at certain points

and as soon as we were able to get the CD of it we did and have been listening to that ever since, but we still feel the absence of the fridge crackles in the exact points where they interacted with the music, and it's got to be something over 30 years now since we heard that tape but we were listening to it daily for nearly 20 years before that so yeah old friends

#persistence of sense memory #steve reich

[danielgianfranceschi]

Meredith Monk

#art #abstractart #carol christian poell #ccp #artist #danielgianfranceschi #avantgarde #abstract #collaboration #paris #meredith monk #john cage #steve reich #philip glass #ambient #sound art #sound #composition #minimal art

[mikrokosmos]

Alexandre Desplat - Main Theme to Asteroid City (2023)

Last night I went out to the movies with friends and we saw the new Wes Anderson picture, Asteroid City. This is the first time in a long time that I've seen a film in a theater and I do have a lot to say about the movie and the unique way that it shows the kind of crisis and anxiety that artists have in the creative process. But from the first moment I fell in love with the score by the acclaimed film composer Alexandre Desplat. Just as Anderson uses picturesque scenes and stock characters of Atomic-Age Americana to evoke a nostalgia for this idealized past we can only experience as artificial recreations, So Desplat turn to post-war American music to capture not only an atmosphere of the era but also of the American Sublime. There are only a few moments that his score comes through mixed with retro country western tracks. The opening of this “suite” holds us with a high-pitched note held over a melody in the lower register of the piano. This distinct “Americana” sound feels that way because it is reminiscent of Copland’s orchestral writing. But then the oscillating xylophone and bells brings in a pulse that makes me think of American minimalism with the likes of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Little wind arpeggios come in to heavily emphasize Philip Glass' style of “minimalism”, which can be heard throughout his scores. And this nod to Glass ends with a long held organ pedal point in the bass, reminding us of his iconic score for Koyaanisqatsi (1982). Then, unexpectedly, the held note which opened the score is revealed to be the opening to the serene and otherworldly prelude to Wagner’s Lohengrin (or at least a short pastiche). Why reference Wagner here? I'm going to guess that this is related to the Wagnerian sound of heroism, triumph, and the sublime all being paired with the reminiscent love for the cowboys of the Old West. And these long held notes, and evoking the repetitive and potentially endless sounds of looping American minimalism come together to create a musical depiction of the American Sublime of endless Horizons and expansive nature and the quiet beauty that places like the Southwest has. I might be reading a lot into it and I don't want to argue that this is what Alexander Desplat had in mind when he decided to write in an American musical style for matching aesthetics, but I think this adds a nice little cherry of a detail on top of an already complicated and multi-layered film.

#Desplat #Alexandre Desplat #film music #film score #soundtrack #Asteroid City #Wes Anderson #orchestra music #Minimalism #American minimalism #Steve Reich #Philip Glass #Richard Wagner #Glass #Reich #Glass Koyaanisqatsi #Wes Anderson Asteroid City #Alexandre Desplat Asteroid City #classical music #Youtube #Wagner Lohengrin #Lohengrin

[franziskas-record-store]

Hello, I’m Franziska, and I’m a big music nerd! Consider liking or rebloging this post if you enjoy any of the following artists (or just music in general) and I’ll probably follow you back!

Talking Heads/David Byrne

Vic Chesnutt

Bob Dylan

Philip Glass

Steve Reich

Sufjan Stevens

Cardiacs

Brian Eno

Frank Zappa

Pharoah Sanders

Christopher Tin

XTC

Gustav Mahler

Björk

Leonard Cohen

Laurie Anderson

Very many more…

I will mostly post daily album recommendations, but I will talk about music from time to time.

#music #album of the day #music blog #music recommendation #talking heads #intro post #david byrne #vic chesnutt #philip glass #steve reich #sufjan stevens #cardiacs #brian eno #frank zappa #pharoah sanders #christopher tin #xtc band #gustav mahler #leonard cohen #laurie anderson #bob dylan #björk

[gacougnol]

Music For 18 Musicians from Steve Reich

#steve reich #Bandcamp

[kickerofelves]

André 3000 Digs Jazz

André 3000 shares his favorite jazz songs

#André 3000 #New Blue Sun #Jazz #i love that there's so much Steve Reich on here #Hiroshi Yoshimura #Laraaji #John Coltrane #Thelonious Monk #Amjad Ali Khan #Lakshmi Shankar #Igor Stravinsky #Steve Reich

[davidhudson]

Happy 87th, Steve Reich.

#steve reich #music

[panopticum]

2: Who got you into the band you adore now?

6: Favourite Album?

8: Songs that you could listen to forever and never get tired of?

13: Favourite lyric?

27: What song/album do you listen to when you need a pick-me-up?

40: When did music become an important factor in your life?

46: It’s 3 in the morning and you wanna DANCE. What song do you blast to the heavens?

48: All time favourite photo of the band you currently adore?

I know you probably have fun answers :3

finally getting around to this and I’m sure I will think of other answers right after posting - so it goes!

2. fave band - the Peter Gabriel thing was a total divine accident. I was out dancing at an 80s-90s music video mashup night and Sledgehammer came on. I remember hearing the opening flute riff and seeing some guy near me contort his body in sudden recognition. the first beat hit and I can only imagine this is what people feel after doing their first hit of some deadly euphoric drug. the rest is history; I felt something in my brain go *clunk* and it was game over.

6. ahhh so many over the years but right now it’s Us by Peter Gabriel. I’m a total basic bitch for a good melody and that album is full of them, not to mention extremely relatable themes around longing, connection, “am I the problem,” and more. honorable mentions go to Age of Adz and Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens, Not Even Happiness by Julie Byrne, the original Hadestown album pre-Broadway, and O True Believers by James Blackshaw.

8. soooo many PG songs. but also: O.N.E. by Yeasayer, Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich, Fake Empire by the National, and many more.

13. “we took the town to town last night/we kissed like we invented it”

(not sure if this counts but the “shh…listen” at the very end of Secret World, too)

27. I tend to listen to sad music when I’m sad lol. but: the Graceland album by Paul Simon is a good one. also the song Number One Fan by MUNA.

40. mmmm to keep it brief: I’ve always been a deep feeler and music felt like the one thing that could mirror that. I grew up listening to a lot of hyper-melodic music like Yanni and inventing dances to go with it. I was in band and choir all throughout high school and college and kept singing in different groups after college. now I get such a charge out of dance, karaoke, live shows, and jamming on my uke. music has also helped me remember moments in my life, i.e. the first time I heard a Julien Baker song while driving through southern Colorado in a rainstorm. like life snapshots.

46. to pick only one: Let’s Go Crazy by Prince (a previous artist hyperfixation lol)

48. this was VERY DIFFICULT ahaha but:

I just adore this photo. it captures so much I love about this goofy man. I really relate to his perfectionism and tendency to get sucked into details. I love that he’s not a do-it-in-one-take guy like Prince. he’s obsessive and kind of lost in his world. but still tries to look up and out at the rest of the world around him. plus I love that Parachute label he wore so much of in the 80s (like this jacket here). p.s. I of course wanted to post some egregious 90s photo of him but there were too many to choose from.

thanks for the asks; this was fun <3

#peter gabriel #sufjan stevens #the national #julie byrne #yanni #yeasayer #steve reich #paul simon #muna #prince #anais mitchell #hadestown #james blackshaw

[paintedout]

#music #Steve Reich

[lascitasdelashoras]

Steve Reich - Four Organs - Phase Patterns

#steve reich #four organs #phase patterns #discos #albums #musica

[iowadream]

Cover of bars 8-41 of Steve Reich's "New York Counterpoint." Prerecorded clarinets 1-6 are shifted down 2 octaves and are played by an acid bass max patch of mine. Prerecorded clarinets 7-10 are played by a 7th order supersaw max patch I developed. The live clarinet is shifted down 2 octaves and played by a microbrute patched to imitate an acid bass.

I got like 80-90% of the way through finishing making this track before I got kinda bored of it. This was really meant as a recording workflow/synthesis exercise, and while I'm unsure if I'm ever going to return to this again, I figured I might as well post it here. As per usual, let me know if you want access to any stems from this and I'll email them to you.

#my music #electronic music #steve reich #minimalist #acid bass #new york counterpoint

[gregdotorg]

In 2000, Lee Ranaldo made a torn photo edition [top] showing Steve Reich's organs for a Sonic Youth art box set. It was inspired by a torn photo edition Robert Smithson made in 1970, or a pile of rubble [above].

The first batch were apparently printed at the wrong dimensions, a la Spinal Tap Stonehenge, and so became a separate, "maquette version," which is adorable.

#lee ranaldo #steve reich #robert smithson #paul + wendy projects #spinal tap

[noisytenant]

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#indexed post #youtube comments #steve reich