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Terry Riley

Did you wake up before the sun rise?
about 1 year ago
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Wake up Eastern Man ...Wake up Western man

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The Great Vinyl Haul of 2006
over 2 years ago

Hey everybody! I'm on vacation here in Hell A and I thought i'd celebrate the end of JSGuntzel's "Month of the Phonograph Record" by talking about the records I got a few days ago. My uncle's neighbor moved up to Portland and gave him all her vinyl and my brother and I were given free reign to take whatever we wanted. Free vinyl = happy Kate! Here is some of what I scored:Terry Riley: Shri C...

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Review: Terry Riley @ Berkeley Art Museum – 11/6
10 days ago

Being well established in the great cannon of 60s minimalism, a local and an alumni of UC-Berkeley nonetheless, the great crowd for Terry Riley’s L@TE performance on Friday was no surprise. The environs were chilling, the Berkeley Art Museum that looks like the inside of a giant mausoleum with great balconies and intense art everywhere. [...]

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How to improvise a musical revolution, by Michael Dervan
over 2 years ago

More than 40 years after releasing In C, Terry Riley is still trying to strip music down to its purest essence, he tells Michael DervanTerry Riley's In C is the first classic of minimalism in music. It was premiered in 1964 when the composer was 29. Alfred Frankenstein reported in the San Francisco Chronicle that the composer had "developed a style like that of no one else on earth, and he is b...

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experiments in sound #12
over 2 years ago

--> Listen here <--The Freeform Ensemble perform Terry Riley's In C - excerpt of the small WORLD Studio Sessions

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Terry Riley : gourou des Garçons Joufflus ?
over 2 years ago
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About organ loops and creation as failed imitation (cf. "Et Lulu, danseuse nue", les Garçons Joufflus)... Terry Riley : A Rainbow In Curved Air (Excerpt)

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41 Bonus Downloads and Nothing to Spend Them On
about 1 month ago

Is that all there is?I guess for being an all-around good guy eMusic rewarded me with 50 bonus downloads that I need to use by the middle of November. These are on top of my standard 30 downloads/month. I've enjoyed my eMusic subscription over the last 2 years for enabling me to build a collection of mostly instrumental and foreign non-rock music that I otherwise would rarely take a chance on. ...

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Played This Game Once Before
2 months ago

Terry Riley - Your No Good (from Your No Good/Poppy No Good 1967/2004)An important and rather slept on piece of music thats essential for fans of edits. A crate digger classic Latin Soul record, or rather two of them slowly distancing themselves from one another creating primitive tape echo that eventually falls in on itself. The drifting away Harvey Avern Dozen bands are born Siamese twins in t

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