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Axelle Glé

Hi there | salut !
A few words to introduce myself | qq mots de #presentation #presentationfr
I'm a french #sound_artist and #sound_poet | #poete et artiste sonore avec #poso_asso
Love to #radio, #writing and composing some #electroacoustic pieces | amour de la radio, écriture et composition de pièces #électroacoustique
Some new projects with acoustic instruments like violon and medieval harp to play #minimalistmusic and extended play technics | qq projets incluant #violon ou #harpe pour explorer la #musiqueminimale ou les techniques étendues de jeu.
I'd like to meet online friends and share some neerdy things | des potes geeks ici ?

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The Tonearm

"The score is just a single page containing 53 short musical “riffs” that any number of musicians can play in order, but at their discretion. Every performance, by design, will sound completely different."

'In C' Forever — The eternal evolution of Terry Riley’s minimalist masterpiece: npr.org/2024/11/03/nx-s1-48867

American composer Terry Riley performs in London in 2018. His groundbreaking work In C helped launch the musical movement called minimalism 60 years ago.
#TerryRiley#minimalism#MinimalistMusic
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1001 Other Albums

[This guest post was written by wbwolf about number 95 on The List; the album was also submitted by wbwolf.]

Minimalism was a movement started in the 1960s, using short, repetitive musical phrases to overlap and building on themselves. It also built on the musique concrete movement of the 1950s, incorporating tape loops and synthesizers into pieces. Both of these would become key to how the synthesizer developed as an instrument and use of sampling in music.

Steve Reich grew up in a divided but musical family, studying classical and romantic music from early age. In this teens, he became interested in Baroque and jazz, and in college, he studied with a number of contemporary composers. In the early 1960s, he joined the San Francisco Tape Music Center, where he collaborated with Terry Riley, whose “In C” is considered one of the first minimalist music pieces.

Live / Electric Music consists of two side-long pieces. Side A is “Violin Phase”, composed in 1967. As described on the jacket, the piece as two phases. First, the violinist Paul Zukolsky recorded three sets of ten note, twelve beat phases. Then for the second phase, Zukolsky plays a long as the loops play on three different channels, gradually slowing and speeding up to be in and out of phase. The result is, while the melody is simple, it becomes hypnotic as it’s hard to tell where one begins and another ends.

Side B is the first important Reich piece composed at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, “It’s Gonna Rain”. The basis is a recording of a Black Pentecostal street preacher, Brother Walter. The piece is divided into two parts, each using a different technique. The first part is built on a story of Noah, focusing on the phrase “It’s Gonna Rain”. The tape loops in this section break down words, phrases and sounds to form to a beat that to the contemporary ears sounds very much like the way a DJ will break down a sample while scratching. The second part is further along the Noah story, but here the phrase is cutup, looped, and then layered. Eventually, as more and more layers are added, as the loops move in and out of phase, until it becomes just a smear of sound.

Fascinating listening to see how short phrases can become complex with layering and juxtaposition.

[Alt text for accompanying image: The album artwork is a watercolour and ink drawing of a white and black shoe merged with a violin. The shoe/violin is standing on its toe in green grass, with a blue sky in the background and abstract rain falling. There is a white border around the drawing, with the song titles in small black font along the top, then the artist and album name in larger font directly underneath, above the drawing.]

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/03/22/steve-reich-live-electric-music-1968-us/

#1001OtherAlbums#1960s#experimental
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Spotlight On

Authors and musicologists Kerry O'Brien and William Robin have written an essential evaluation of the history of minimalist music titled On Minimalism.

The two joined host Lawrence Peryer on the new episode of the Spotlight On podcast to discuss the book, why we should look beyond the big four (Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and La Monte Young), and how the aesthetic strains found in almost all modern music is a sort of victory for minimalism.

This is such a compelling and entertaining conversation … tune in! → spotlightonpodcast.com/on-mini

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#podcast #minimalism #MinimalistMusic #TerryRiley #LaMonteYoung #StevenReich #PhilipGlass #MusicHistory

The Spotlight On thumbnail art with profile photos of the authors Kerry O’Brien and William Robin in the center.
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Eidon :bass: 🎸 🎤 💻

This new piece is a little... special, to me. When the idea came to me, I said to myself "Uhm, this is too simple." But there's actually nothing bad in something simple; what really matters is that that something be true. And this one is very much so.
I hope you'll like this "little heart" of mine -- questo mio piccolo cuore.

eidon.bandcamp.com/track/picco

EidonPiccolo cuore, by Eidon from the album Why Not?
#neoclassical#MinimalistMusic
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Anita Harris Satkunananthan

Music for 18 Musicians -- Steve Reich

youtube.com/watch?v=71A_sm71_B

Temple University Percussion Ensemble (Director: Phillip O'Banion)
Featuring: Mobius Percussion

Ever have days, or weeks where only Steve Reich's music will do the trick? I do. I know I've had days when I listen to his counterpoints on repeat.

@composers
@classicalmusic
@contemporarymusic

#newmusic #contemporaryclassical #twentyfirstcenturycomposers #composers #music
#minimalistmusic #classicalminimalism #stevereich #classicalmusic

YouTubeMusic for 18 Musicians, by Steve ReichBy Vic Firth
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