There is a pt. 2 as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpURYG2F2ug
I would love a DVD of this.
― Z S, Saturday, 26 January 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
that said, i've had the "my name is daniel pearl" part stuck in my head ever since.
still stuck in there! i think about this piece several times most weeks, it just randomly comes to me. really wish there was a recording so i could hear it a second time.
― toby, Saturday, 26 January 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Starting to think Four Organs is my favourite. I know what Toby means, I had the "From Chicago" bit of Different trains in my head for months
― I know, right?, Saturday, 12 July 2008 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
so, i entered a steve reich remix context, and NOW the voting starts:
http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/32325
please check it out, and if you like, vote for mine!!
― Dominique, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w50ULeH-wS0/SRCTaIqljdI/AAAAAAAAAbY/LiNXrfVzJQ0/s400/vote.jpg
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks!!!
― Dominique, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
us too
http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/33104
― the barenaked ladies are the roaring night (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
congrats dominique
― midiverb II program 49 (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome
― hubertus bigend (m coleman), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
how'd that BBC interview go
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
hey thanks!
milton, got andrea w to help
― Dominique, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa fuckin a dude congrats!
― 69, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
we came 34th haha
― midiverb II program 49 (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
the 75th birthday concert at carnegie hall was short but sweet. so percussion did "mallets," kronos quartet did "wtc 9/11," bang on a can did an awesome "2 X 5," and eighth blackbird closed out with a not so bad "double sextet." the only thing that put me to sleep was "wtc 9/11," which is a shame since it was a premiere. oh well. sometimes i couldn't help wondering either why every piece has to have a slow middle movement, and what mike oldfield makes of reich. anyways it felt good to applaud the old fella applauding us back at the end of the show
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 1 May 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
>what mike oldfield makes of reich
1978's 'Incantations' was pretty much an answer record to Oldfield discovering Reich. And then the next record had that disco cover of Glass' 'North Star'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyjPL_o0fjc
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 1 May 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard an interview with Reich this week and he said the premier of WTC 9/11 was in North Carolina but this was to be the first performance in NYC.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 1 May 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
milton that song is bizarre! thanks for posting it. i wonder where "2 X 5" premiered. this videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fapq0H--lMEkinda gives an idea of how frippy a guitar symphony can be. nothing like seeing it live though. all sorts of crusty oldsters were rocking out. can't believe the guy's in his 70s and making music that sounds a little like battles
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 2 May 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Not going to Sonar this year, but man, this sucks: Steve Reich just pulled out of the festival due to health problems.
"Steve Reich will be unable to travel to Barcelona for his performance at Sonar festival this year due to health issues. Sonar says that 74 year old Reich is "obliged to remain at home under medical orders".
http://thewire.co.uk/articles/6768/
― geeta, Friday, 3 June 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Knew he shouldn't have been hugging all those strangers at his birthday party. Hugging randoms, sure way to pick up nasty germs.
(Kidding. Get well Steve Reich!)
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Friday, 3 June 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lptkt40Rxc1qap6kyo1_500.jpghmm, this cover has apparently been pulled by nonesuch because people were offended. i'm not offended, it's just kind of cruddy. Minimalist composer Steve Reich made waves a few weeks ago when his record label, Nonesuch, unveiled the cover art for his new album, WTC 9/11: a darkened, dirtied version of a photograph taken on the tragic day, featuring the second hijacked plane just moments before it hit the second tower.Reaction was swift and fierce, as Seth Colter Walls detailed in a piece for Slate. Critics said that the commercial repurposing of such an image was insensitive and inappropriate; a fellow composer called it “the first truly despicable classical album cover that I have ever seen.” …
Now, the mini-tragedy has been avoided: Nonesuch just announced that it will replace the cover art for the album’s Sept. 20 release.
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
It's strange that he couldn't come up with a more artistic or abstract representation of 9/11 and instead chose the most iconic image.
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah. here's reich's statementAs a composer I want people to listen to my music without something distracting them. The present cover of WTC 9/11 will, for many, act as a distraction from listening and so, with the gracious agreement of Nonesuch, the cover is being changed.
When the cover was being designed, I believed, as did all the staff at Nonesuch and the art director, that a piece of music with documentary material from an event would best be matched with a documentary photograph of that event. I felt that the photo suggested by our art director was very powerful, and Nonesuch backed me up. All of us felt that anyone seeing the cover would feel the same way.
When the cover was released on the Nonesuch site and elsewhere, there was, instead, an outpouring of controversy mostly by people who had never heard the music.
When WTC 9/11 was performed by the Kronos Quartet, first in Durham, North Carolina, at Duke University and then shortly afterwards outside of Los Angeles and then at Carnegie Hall and again at the Barbican Centre in London, the reaction of the public and press was extremely thoughtful and moving. To have this reaction to the music usurped by the album cover seemed completely wrong. Accordingly, the cover is being changed.
I want to thank Nonesuch for backing up my original decision about the cover and for backing up my decision now to change it so we can put the focus back where it belongs, on the music.
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, there's is so much potential for artistic interpretation around this enormous earth-shattering event and so many powerful existing images.
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
a fellow composer called it “the first truly despicable classical album cover that I have ever seen.” …
truly despicable classical album covers i have known
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I am going to fathom a guess that the fellow composer was not Karlheinz Stockhausen...
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
has he seen this one? http://forums.kickassclassical.com/download/file.php?id=57&sid=1230858b777c644635f6a417935a3bec
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't find it offensive but it does seem like its being turned into album cover art twisted something about the way the image would be seen that would be unacceptable to people who are probably within their rights.
i'm not even sure it could be pulled off without lettering, but lettering automatically makes an image read, somehow, as if someone is saying 'awesome' about it, or as if the name above it is proud of it.
― j., Friday, 12 August 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Or like, in terms of a musician, "I am this - it represents me."
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg4-AtqhKh8
― WilliamC, Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
hey i like the johnny greenwood electric counterpoint
― schlump, Saturday, 4 October 2014 03:51 (nine years ago) link
http://clappingmusicapp.com/
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 9 July 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
came up on my Facebook today but only for iphone, screw you Reich
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 July 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
NYC Aug 5
http://www.lcoutofdoors.org/events/full-band-electric-counterpoint-dither-and-friends-featuring-lee-ranaldo-yo-la-tengo-and-mark-stewart-matmos
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
Am I a rhythmical klutz or is the clapping music app hard mode really fucking hard?
― ledge, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhMiuzyU1ag
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
Braggin'
http://i66.tinypic.com/28aurle.jpg
― mitch bagnet (MaresNest), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
Tonight at 7:30 (UK time) The Royal College of Music are livestreaming a concert of and Reich will be there too.
The program is Clapping Music, Double Sextet, Three Movements and Quartet.
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/live/
― MaresNest, Thursday, 10 March 2016 10:20 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/MrJamesMay/status/708045234668773376
― Brakhage, Thursday, 10 March 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I saw him at the interval, he was up in the balcony/area with the hob nobs, like the big berry faced wanker he is.
― MaresNest, Friday, 11 March 2016 12:29 (eight years ago) link
What was the girl miming with sound effects all about? Is there a compulsory bit where someone must abase themselves for the amusement of royalty, lest the high minded art lend the occasion too much dignity.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 11 March 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, no idea what that was all about, it was earlier in the day I guess.
― MaresNest, Friday, 11 March 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ib8Fdmp1hE
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
i know this is insane but now i can't help but hear one of the street recording snippets in the first movement of "different trains' "trump's the problem. from new york. trump's the problem. from new york" instead of "from chicago. to new york." trump has infiltrated and ruined every part of me
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 July 2017 06:29 (seven years ago) link
see also: nellie the elephant
― The XX pants (ledge), Monday, 24 July 2017 08:52 (seven years ago) link
Live in a couple of hours: clapping music, quartet, drumming.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/079679-001-A/weekend-steve-reich-a-la-fondation-louis-vuitton-concert-1/
― StanM, Saturday, 2 December 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
Thank you!
― MaresNest, Saturday, 2 December 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
^^^ OTM
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 2 December 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
even better: it's three concerts in a row - tomorrow as well
http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/expositions/exposition-moma0/weekend-special-steve-reich.html
― StanM, Saturday, 2 December 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/expositions/exposition-moma0/weekend-special-steve-reich.html <- in English
― StanM, Saturday, 2 December 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
Reich always gets namechecked in pieces about artists I really like (Tangerine Dream, Tortoise, Nik Bartsch) but I guess I've only heard the "wrong" stuff because I don't especially like anything I've heard. Clapping and Four Organs grate on me; I have a soft spot for It's Gonna Rain but a little of that phasing fuckery goes a long way. Guessing I need to hear Drumming or MF18M to get the polyrhythmic zen funk marimba jams? What else?
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link