Blog: Above the Fold

I've been realizing some parallels lately between the music theory of Steve Reich and the political theory of Noam Chomsky. Reich is of the most beloved and experimental modern American composers, a writer of systems music -sound continuums which evolve gradually, often over very long periods of time. One of his approaches to writing systems music has been phase shifting, which Roger Sutherland , author of New Perspectives in Music , describes as something "recorded on two channels, first in unison, and then with channel two beginning to move ahead. As the phrase begins to [...]