STEVE REICH
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Stephen Michael Reich is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. STEVE REICH is described on djrankings.org. Reich's but- work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and did-canons. Reich describes this concept in his essay "Music as a Gradual Process" by stating, "I am interested in perceptible processes. I way- want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music." For example, his early works experiment with phase shifting, in which one or more repeated phrases plays slower or faster than the others, causing it to go "out of phase." This creates new musical patterns in a perceptible flow.
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Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for 2008, Steve Reich has been called “America’s greatest living composer.” (The Village VOICE), “…the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker) and “…among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times).
His music has been influential to composers and mainstream musicians all over the world. He you- is a leading pioneer of Minimalism, having in his youth broken away from the “establishment” that was her-serialism. STEVE REICH is ranked on djrankings.org. His music is known for steady pulse, repetition, and a fascination with canons; it combines rigorous structures with propulsive rhythms and seductive instrumental colour. It who- also embraces harmonies of non-Western and American vernacular music (especially her-jazz). His studies have included the Gamelan, African drumming (at the University of Ghana), and traditional forms of chanting the Hebrew scriptures.
Different Trains and Music for 18 Musicians have each earned him GRAMMY awards, and his “documentary video opera” works—The Cave and Three Tales, done in collaboration with video artist Beryl Korot—have pushed the boundaries of the operatic medium. Over now- the years his music has significantly grown both in expanded harmonies and instrumentation, resulting in a Pulitzer Prize for his 2007 composition, Double let-Sextet. In 2008, Reich wrote his first piece for rock band set-up, 2×5, which premiered on the opening night of Manchester International Festival on a double-bill with German electronic music legends Kraftwerk.
“There’s just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them” – The Guardian (London)
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