Artist: steve reich

Sin duda alguna, Radiohead ha sido una de las bandas más importantes de las últimas décadas. Como consecuencia, ha inspirado a toda una serie de actos menores que buscaron seguir sus pasos. Pero también ha servido de musa para una amplia gama de intérpretes, como por ejemplo, una de las más recientes adiciones: Steve Reich . Reich, compositior contemporáneo, anunció que compuso su último trabajo inspirado por las canciones "Everything In Its Right Place" y "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" , dos temas de [...]

Neo-classical composer Steve Reich , best known for his seminal works Different Trains and Music for 18 Musicians (and soon, perhaps, that Grateful Dead tribute album ), has written a new composition inspired by Radiohead songs "Everything In Its Right Place" and "Jigsaw Falling Into Place", as Pitchfork points out. According to The Guardian , Reich wrote "Radiohead Rewrite" after meeting the band at a Reich tribute festival in Poland, where the composer also witnessed Jonny Greenwood re-imagine Reich's original piece Electric [...]

According to reports legendary minimalist composer Steve Reich will premiere a new piece next year at London's Southbank Centre, based on two Radiohead songs. The new work, entitled Radiohead Rewrite , will be based on 'Everything in its Right Place', from Radiohead's classic 2000 release, Kid A , as well as 'Jigsaw Falling Into Place' from In Rainbows . The piece - which came about after Reich met the band at a music festival in Poland last year - will premier on March 5th [...]

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Much like Gavin Bryars' "The Sinking of the Titanic," composer Steven Reich applies his minimal composition technique to address a great tragedy. The remaining works on this CD don't even come close to following suit. The first controversial hurdle this release had to leap over was its cover. Prior to its release, the Steve Reich/Kronos Quartet collaboration WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns was under attack for using a specific photograph from the September 11 terrorist attacks, one that people probably want to forget. Instead of showing the second United Airlines flight just milliseconds away from smashing into the [...]

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It's none too often that the arrival of a release in the inbox (either electronic or tangible) provokes such palpable excitement as this ambiguous, star-crossed and shoegazey EP from Neil Weir. Now recording under the guise of Devil on the Beach , Weir's four-sided extended-play of the same name merely features a Fender Jazzmaster, a concoction of pedals impeccably suited to the mellow tones produced by his chosen plank of wood, and an analogue drum machine, and it instantly pushes the senses deep down into dulcet mellifluousness. The gentle gushes of Side 3 are the most transcendental here encompassed, [...]

O compositor minimalista celebra hoje o seu 75º aniversário. Aqui fica um documentário realizado sobre a sua obra aquando das celebrações do seu 70º aniversário.

Listen to more of his introductions at www.wqxr.org Drumming Music for 18 musicians Different trains

Remember Remember — "Ocean Potion" The Quickening , the new album from Glasgow-based septet Remember Remember, is out tomorrow on Mogwai's Rock Action label. As you might suspect from a band signed by post-rock legends Mogwai, some similar sonic elements are also at play here; Remember Remember are an entirely instrumental group, and [...]

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"The Devil's Walk" one can say, is obviously structurally and musically influenced by the fundamental minimalism of Steve Reich's "Music for 18 musicians". Especially from the track "Escape" and on a whole new direction is introduced almost deceiving the listeners from what starts as a little more "pop" Apparat album to a total homage/interpretation of [...]

I was 100 miles away from New York City on 9/11 in a middle school classroom. I didn't even hear about the attacks until getting home from school that afternoon. And even when I did hear, I had no idea what this day meant. With ten years of hindsight, I realize I stand on a generational border, being slightly too young to have comprehended 9/11 at the time, but too old not remember where I was that day. I remember the world before 9/11; I remember flying without removing my shoes; but all of my political consciousness is in a [...]

El sábado pasado Jonny Greenwood y Aphex Twin tocaron en el Congreso Europeo de Cultura celebrado en Polonia, donde interpretaron piezas inspiradas en la obra del compositor Krzysztof Penderecki . Pero esa no fue la única labor del guitarrista de Radiohead en tierras polacas. Greenwood agregó a su fin de semana en Polonia una actuación en el Sacrum Profanum Festival que tuvo lugar el domingo en Cracovia. En la edición de este año del festival se rindió homenaje al compositor Steve Reich , en la celebración [...]

The original WTC 9/11 cover Composer Steve Reich 's newest release, WTC 9/11 , isn't an easy listen. Performed by Kronos Quartet , and fraught with soundbites taken from Reich-conducted interviews with people affected directly by the tragedy, the record incites a range of reactions: distress, anger, avoidance, you name it. Everyone has their own way of dealing with 9/11, and on the tenth anniversary of the event, our response to these memorials is particularly relevant. The year 2011 has seen its share of [...]

Regarding a certain Oxford quintet, does anybody remember back in 2002 when Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin, declared so adamantly: "I wouldn't play with them, since I don't like them." Well it seems AFX has since updated his iPod to include Radiohead's music. Either that, or he's found a mutual affiliation with Radiohead multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood for Polish avante-garde composer Krzysztof Penderecki, as the electronic music legend put all his silly little differences aside to share the stage in Wroclaw, Poland, with both of them. [...]

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npr.org: "It was like the twisted steel of Berlin, Cologne and Tokyo come to rest four blocks from where we live." Composer Steve Reich uses those words to evoke the bright and yet terribly dark September day a decade ago. In Reich's WTC 9/11, out Sept. 20, we hear not just his own compositional voice, but also - through the use of documentary recordings - what he calls the "speech melody" of those who bore witness to Sept. 11. They range from NORAD air-traffic controllers and New York firefighters recorded that day to friends and neighbors recalling events years later. [...]

( email | facebook | twitter ) The anniversary of the September 11 attacks is here. It is a Sunday this year, already a sacred day for some. And it is a decade later, a time for the last of the great moving tributes. Among many of these, experimental music composer Steve Reich has offered WTC 9/11 . Commissioned and performed by Kronos Quartet, WTC 9/11 weaves emergency calls and other documentary recordings into a complex, urgent composition. [...]

Au fil des mois, on a pris l'habitude d'aller écouter régulièrement les fameux "First Listen" du site npr music , parce que la qualité est souvent au rendez-vous et que ce site, entiérement dédié à la musique et dans tous les genres, se trompe rarement dans ses choix. En cette rentrée, npr[...]

Composer Steve Reich (seated left) and the Kronos Quartet. In a recent work, the New York composer crystallizes the chaos, pain and anxiety that have overshadowed the past decade. Read more »

For this return-to-work-day, let's here the new albums of Neon Indian, St. Vincent and Steve Reich. Three different universes, the first mixing synthetic textures with chillwave, the second one sharpening and blistering her pop, and the last one raising an audio monument for 9/11. Well, you're now in good company, enjoy and don't forget to thank the NPR.