#steve reich
Léonore Baulac,Stéphane BullionandLudmila Pagliero rehearsing Sleight of Hand and Speak for Yourself by Sol León and Paul Lightfoot @Paris Opera Ballet
© Agathe Poupeney
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EASY LISTENING:
Steve Reich - It’s Gonna Rain
[1965]
Happy 40th anniversary, The Wire magazine! Thanks for all the adventures in sound and music. Here’s to many more.
“50 years after its creation, it’s clear that Clapping Music is more than a significant work in a single composer’s career,” the New Statesman’s Phil Hebblethwaite writes on the Steve Reich piece. “It’s minimalist music at its most organic; a pinnacle of the aesthetic in its initial form.” You can read the article here.
The first recording of Steve Reich’s 2019 piece Reich/Richter, performed by Ensemble intercontemporain and conducted by George Jackson, is out now on CD/digital. You can get it, hear it, and pre-order the vinyl, due August 5, here.
The composition was originally written to be performed with Gerhard Richter and Corinna Belz’s film Moving Picture (946-3), for which Richter’s book Patterns served as source material.
“Reich’s music … expands from minimalist austerity to more full-bodied passages and back again,” says the Financial Times. “Reminiscent of his earliest work, it is very beautiful.”
PUPARIA
Give me 2.5 minutes of your life for this film by Shingo Tamagawa (玉川 真吾) soundtrack Steve Reich(!).
Sound on, and the bigger the screen the better.
Happy Birthday, Steve Reich! 1936
Happy Birthday, Steve Reich! 1936
Composer Steve Reich
once again a shoutout and huge gratitude to this particular recording of this particular piece, Four Organs by Steve Reich, that’s been successfully soothing me for *counts* 46 years now, it drives some people crazy but if you’re the right combo of neurodivergences like me, this is some amazing, calming, integrating magic
I love that at the start, you can hear the bleedthrough on the original recording tape
