Steve Reich - It's Gonna Rain (1965)

It's Gonna Rain is a minimalist musical composition for magnetic tape written by Steve Reich in 1965. It lasts about 17 minutes and 50 seconds. It was Reich's first major work and a landmark in minimalism and process music.
"It’s Gonna Rain … is a very heavy piece written in the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the voice is a spectacularly moving, intense voice about the end of the world." (Steve Reich)
The source material of It's Gonna Rain consists entirely of a tape recording made in 1964 at San Francisco's Union Square. In the recording, a Pentecostal preacher, Brother Walter, rails about the end of the world, while accompanying background noises, including the sound of a pigeon taking flight, are heard. The piece opens with the story of Noah, and the phrase "It's Gonna Rain" is repeated and eventually looped throughout the first half of the piece.
For the recording, Reich used two normal Wollensak tape recorders with the same recording, originally attempting to align the phrase with itself at the halfway point (180 degrees). However, due to the imprecise technology in 1965, the two recordings fell out of sync, with one tape gradually falling ahead or behind the other due to minute differences in the machines, the length of the spliced tape loops, and playback speed. Reich decided to exploit what is known as phase shifting, where all possible recursive harmonies are explored before the two loops eventually get back in sync. The following year, Reich created another composition, Come Out, in which the phrase "come out to show them" is looped to create the same effect.
The work is in two parts of roughly equal length, the first using the "It's Gonna Rain" sample as mentioned above, the second using a separate section of the speech with short phrases cut together and the resultant pattern then phased as in the first part, but with additional tape delay to create a more processed sound.
During a lecture at the Long Now Foundation, electronic musician Brian Eno cited It's Gonna Rain as his first experience with minimalism and the genre that would come to be known as ambient music.
Video created with Sonic Visualizer, vokoscreen, Audacity and OpenShot on a Debian 8 Jessie Linux system.

[@diminutiveb8109]

remember being in elementary and the music teacher played this for the class it changed my life

[@qqw743]

At a certain point, it becomes difficult to argue that it isn't going to rain.

[@unyquelykim]

😂

[@davidarmstrong1624]

Anyone know where I can find a Karaoke version?

[@ernestmaciel]

Karaoke version is only the left channel. You have to sing the right channel.

[@qqw743]

Come on, Noah. Just open the damned door. Sealed, schmealed. I'm gettin' worn out here.

[@infowarriorone]

I first heard this back in the 1980s, on a college radio station.

[@KikeGarcia66]

This changed my being, mind and Spirit

[@carloslopes1995]

Really appreciate the time you spend to upload all these pieces, it's a shame I didn't stumble upon this channel sooner. Thank you so much!

[@zapkidproductions]

The first footwork track

[@nijq]

only true masters of footwork can dance to this

[@RocKnMetaL97]

*REPETITION LEGITIMIZES*

[@eddievhfan1984]

*BASS*

[@DaddyGandhi]

REPETITION LEGITIMIZES

[@djcammack]

This gets amazing at 8:00.

[@yaguzi]

It really does.

[@KikeGarcia66]

Yes it does

[@IHeartNoise]

Disco Reign, Disco Reign

[@austinrees]

Hallelujah!

[@belly51]

Music for 18 musicians Steve Reich

[@gregoryklein5471]

Thanks for uploading. It’s a shame to have ads break the mood.

[@EdiDrums]

You Tube ad blocker will help

[@josephsu9574]

This whole piece reminds me of an impending apocalypse, given the circumstance that the global chaos brought by social media and disinformation has exacerbated further and further over the years.

[@jasoncdebussy]

One man's disinformation is another man's truth

[@tobiasmuller4613]

Ich grüße meine Musiklehrer aus der Videokonferenz

[@mythicfails4644]

Kekw

[@mythicfails4644]

Verpiss dicj aufs Internat ahahahahha

[@tobiasmuller4613]

@@mythicfails4644 izbrisati se sa neta

[@annelizabeth728]

This is one of the most arresting things I have ever heard.

[@unyquelykim]

It goes from
“It’s our land” to
“This is our land”
‘Couldn’t open the door’
‘Just open the door’ Damn!
Okay… what exactly is the purpose behind this?
Irritating noise??

[@user-ys5ib2kt6d]

라이히 - 비가 올 것이다. : 처음으로 위상변이(페이징 기법)을 사용했다. [테이프 음악]
위상변이 기법 : 두 개 이상의 똑같은 테이프 루프를 약간 다른 속도로 동시에 재생시킬 떄 루프들 사이에 생기는 시간적 차이에 의해 만들어진 효과

[@nogodbob1]

FOETUS brought me here

[@Zizou23_zidane]

It didn’t rain

[@adoroaleeza]

8:54 rn- i literally am lost-

[@jeroenvanrheenen6931]

nice sampling

[@adoroaleeza]

i dont know what he is saying at this point

[@mythicfails4644]

Moinsen Musikkurs

[@moussetache1815]

Is Gore In ?

[@communistpropagandist4608]

Its Gore. Its Gore. Its Gore.

[@crostiancampos7422]

Pero qué weá más buena, por la chucha

[@blond7899]

1:07 GUILLOTINE

[@pizzarella985]

YUH