Post by Rabbit on Jan 24, 2017 9:47:24 GMT
This is slightly weird stuff, so if you're not open to music experimentation, then best to not listen!!!
Steve Reich is a modern composer who worked in a type of music called 'minimalist'. To many, this would be a difficult listen due to the repetitive nature of minimalist music.
The idea is that composers would set up a pattern and make all kinds of 'variations' of this same pattern and overlap them. Another minimalist trick was to use what is known as phasing, where you repeat a pattern over and over while it is repeated somewhere else and shifted along one beat at a time until it meets back with the other part.
This is a piece which uses that very technique to the extreme. It is only clapping but visually, you can see the notes as one pattern moves ahead of the other. If you see it out to the end, they meet up again. The interest lies in the varied rhythmic patterns that appear just from one rhythm.
The very same technique can be appplied to instruments and is something that is very often used in film music and TV documentaries. This is the same technique being used on two marimbas so pitch is introduced.
When listening to this, you might notice only very small changes at a time. If you aren't aurally perceptive, you'll think it's the same thing over and over again!!
Some people might say that this type of music just can't be performed because of it's 'robotic' nature. Not true.....
This is a piece that incorporates instruments and minimalism with sampling. The idea that a composer, walks around a place and records what he hears. Nothing new ..... Beethoven did this and recorded what he heard in notation; especially from his 6th Symphony, but he did it as a matter of habit. Samplers allow you to record the actual sound and then play the sounds back on a keyboard at random. These sounds were then scored in my Reich with the overlapping patterns and textures that he created.
In order to show how it works so well with film, I've used an example here with just shots of New York.
The idea of sampling was tried by a neighbour of mine, years back with a tape recorder. His name is David Fanshawe and I lived just two doors away from him in the 70's when he was working on this. He went to Africa and recorded tribal music on a tape recorder. Many of those tribes no longer exist. It was very dangerous as well, but he got away with it. Then he wrote the African Sanctus for orchestra and choir, integrating the tape recordings with the music. This is before samplers were invented.
I'll leave two recordings. First,just one of the movements, then the whole piece if you like it.
The whole piece.
So is this stuff actually music? A lot of this type of composition techniques is now seen in the pop world, but covered over much more with something along the top, like a melody to follow. That makes it much easier to accept. (Tubular Bells for instance)
Steve Reich is a modern composer who worked in a type of music called 'minimalist'. To many, this would be a difficult listen due to the repetitive nature of minimalist music.
The idea is that composers would set up a pattern and make all kinds of 'variations' of this same pattern and overlap them. Another minimalist trick was to use what is known as phasing, where you repeat a pattern over and over while it is repeated somewhere else and shifted along one beat at a time until it meets back with the other part.
This is a piece which uses that very technique to the extreme. It is only clapping but visually, you can see the notes as one pattern moves ahead of the other. If you see it out to the end, they meet up again. The interest lies in the varied rhythmic patterns that appear just from one rhythm.
The very same technique can be appplied to instruments and is something that is very often used in film music and TV documentaries. This is the same technique being used on two marimbas so pitch is introduced.
When listening to this, you might notice only very small changes at a time. If you aren't aurally perceptive, you'll think it's the same thing over and over again!!
Some people might say that this type of music just can't be performed because of it's 'robotic' nature. Not true.....
This is a piece that incorporates instruments and minimalism with sampling. The idea that a composer, walks around a place and records what he hears. Nothing new ..... Beethoven did this and recorded what he heard in notation; especially from his 6th Symphony, but he did it as a matter of habit. Samplers allow you to record the actual sound and then play the sounds back on a keyboard at random. These sounds were then scored in my Reich with the overlapping patterns and textures that he created.
In order to show how it works so well with film, I've used an example here with just shots of New York.
The idea of sampling was tried by a neighbour of mine, years back with a tape recorder. His name is David Fanshawe and I lived just two doors away from him in the 70's when he was working on this. He went to Africa and recorded tribal music on a tape recorder. Many of those tribes no longer exist. It was very dangerous as well, but he got away with it. Then he wrote the African Sanctus for orchestra and choir, integrating the tape recordings with the music. This is before samplers were invented.
I'll leave two recordings. First,just one of the movements, then the whole piece if you like it.
The whole piece.
So is this stuff actually music? A lot of this type of composition techniques is now seen in the pop world, but covered over much more with something along the top, like a melody to follow. That makes it much easier to accept. (Tubular Bells for instance)