The renowned comoser-- no stranger to topical music, from the early "Come Out", which explored violence and race, to works since on cloning and the atomic bomb-- here creates a piece inspired by the life and interests of Daniel Pearl, the journalist who was brutally murdered by terrorists in 2002. read more~~
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so i've been at work for 12 hours. with 4 more to go. my sources of entertainment are dwindling.earlier, we somehow got into a conversation about Boohbahs. they're like teletubbies, only ...i can't decide between adjectives, so take your pick : scarier, funnier, better, worse, trippier. I've never heard of them in my life, but apparently anyone with a kid has to deal with these things on a ...
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So I reviewed this fantastic dance performance at the Walker in Minneapolis. Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's choreography and Steve Reich's music. Any Steve Reich fans out there? Well here you go.
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The Thinking Man's Minimalist Steve Reich festival,Reich at NEC. 11/28 and this this but a sample of Reich's music. an ingenious young man from New York City was thinking about sound and repetition in new ways. He took a snippet of speech (a recording of a preacher intoning the phrase "It's gonna rain"), looped it, phase-shifted it in layers over itself and transformed it into an oddly beautif...
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This was released in 2006. It is Steve Reich remixed by the likes of: Four Tet, Alex Smoke...even includes "Come Out," in its entirety and NOT REMIXED. I like this enough that it's either going to be on my "The Shit" list or maybe it'll go somewhere else, like on my turntable. C'mon, we live in an epoch of mashups, sound collages, and hyper-sampling...no reason a remix album can't make it on...
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Donald Judd Untitled (1990)The interesting thing about minimalism is that it is secretly complex. Is this intentionally ironic? I don't believe so. Minimalism is about striping away at an idea or thought, until you expose just the frame work that props it up. It's the distilation of an idea. An omlette without any ingredients is an egg, and an egg uncracked is a white smooth orb like obje...
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maybe the best minimalist
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There's never been any question: New York-based composer and minimalist pioneer Steve Reich is cooler than all of us. Always has been, always will be. I mean, think about it: who among us could get away with wearing that beat-up baseball cap around throughout the entirety of our professional lives and have it be attributed not to our unwillingness to cooperate with workplace standards, but rath...
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