Wikipedia (1936-) [American. Modern - Minimalist.]
If you're just gonna listen to one: Music for 18 Musicians
Background
Steve Reich came to music a little later in life, having majored in philsophy as an undergraduate. He went on to study music, eventually earning a graduate degree in composition. He experimented with different tonalities and with the concept of musical instruments. For example, in Pendulum Music, microphones swing over speakers to create feedback noise -- the performance is therefore different every time... The work Clapping Music consists only of clapping: two clappers (or groups of clappers), move out of sync then back in sync with each other as they clap a 12-beat pattern.
Orchestral
New York Counterpoint
The Desert Music
Electric Counterpoint
Small Group
Piano Phase (also: Marimba version)
Other
One of Reich's innovations was using tape loops to create patterns, as in Come Out (read the notes on the YouTube page for more information on this composition).
Clapping Music
Pendulum Music [Sonic Youth also recorded Pendulum Music for one of their albums.]
Very cool, Tyler. I remember being introduced to Reich's music in college and, "performing" Clapping Music with our professor--it was awesome! It's fun to see such a variety of composers on the blog and it's a good reminder that I studied music once upon a time...
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