When I was a teenager, 14 or 15, my dad gave me a record of '60s electronic music and it had this on it. I had never heard anything like it and I was stunned, sitting n the floor at the living room stereo with headphones on. I really think it's still one of the most revolutionary things I've ever heard. When I made music in my late teens and early 20s I think I was constantly chasing this sound I heard that was created 20 years before I was born.
Impressive story. My mid-teen daughter at first did not like Come Out but later married a guy who also does looping music and now we're all fans of Reich/Riley/LaMonte Young. My mom bought Switched On Bach in the late 1960's and it had a promotion 7" with other CBS music on it that introduced me to Terry Riley and Steve Reich among others. A life changing moment for me as well. I am right now listening to 5 open tabs on RUclips in my browser, 3 of them playing Gonna Rain at 0.75, 1.0, and 1.25 speed and two of them playing Come Out at 0.75 and 1.25. Very relaxing work music - seriously! Sometimes I throw in Clapping Music in a few tabs as well.
@@antoinerockamora Reich said the effect of the percussive plosives and 'sh' of show being - in his words - like maracas, were a fortuitous discovery, but the recognition of same, and then publishing the result as an 'opus' were deliberate.
I just have to say this; to anyone who has a serious passion for music and been practicing meditation for some time, you have to try meditating to this and "it's gonna rain". FULL-PERIOD.
I first heard this at age 15 in a high school music class, that was eighteen years ago now. Never forgot this piece or the story behind it. I continue to share it with friends of mine, like I am right now, to demonstrate how far back the origins of electronic music actually goes.
Here, composer Steve Reich is using the basic language of music (variety & repetition) to demonstrate the slowly shifting sonic textures that are achieved when tapes that begin in sync gradually go out of sync as they naturally play (unlike digital sound which is 'held fast' to its tempo, plastic tape stretches & tenses, so any piece played on tape, this includes cassettes, will never be exactly the same length time-wise when played again - - it will be a fraction of a second to a few seconds off, depending on the length of the piece in question). Reich then went on to apply this sort of technique in his instrumental works for orchestra, etc... repeating phrases that build & slowly shift sonically over time. From Wiki: Reich re-recorded the fragment "come out to show them" on two channels, which initially play in unison. They quickly slip out of sync to produce a phase shifting effect, characteristic of Reich's early works. Gradually, the discrepancy widens and becomes a reverberation and, later, almost a canon. The two voices then split into four, looped continuously, then eight, until the actual words are unintelligible. The listener is left with only the rhythmic and tonal patterns of the spoken words. Reich says in the liner notes of his album Early Works of using recorded speech as source material that "by not altering its pitch or timbre, one keeps the original emotional power that speech has while intensifying its melody and meaning through repetition and rhythm." The piece is a prime example of process music.
If I were to fling shit at different sized plates which resonated at different frequencies, that would be more musical than this seventh grade digital arts class disaster.
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My first year of college, I took an elective class on Electronic Music (I was NOT a music major). In addition to having access to a Moog and Synclavier, the professor also played us tons of things like this -- Reich, Cage, Glass, etc. Blew my mind.
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Remember hearing this on Madvillainy, then was listening to Moonlight on Vermont by Captain Beefheart and realized I was missing something. Very glad I know now.
Beefheart and the rest WERE probarbly high and drunk when Trout Mask Replica was made lol! Furthermore doing something unorthodox takes guts-like here Moonight Vermont-come out to show them.. Rockette Morton-Beefheart band member/Nurse With Wound track/Steve Reich inspired-so there u go!
I heard this way back in the early 1980's and this is the second time I am hearing it since then. About the same time I first heard this I was doing a lot of recording on an Akai open reel two track tape recorder. THe cool thing about this tape machine was that you could get this slapback effect similar to what you hear in this recording. I spent hours creating amazing sounds with this recorder and my guitars. When I bought a Tascam tape recorder I sold the Akai for next to nothing.
And when we reach that point, whatever happened WILL happen again, and when we reach that point, whatever happened WILL happen again, and when we reach that point,
Holy shit I just read about this piece on Pitchfork as a part of Schnip's Pick, and I just found this. I heard "open some of the bruise blood" and I instinctively started verbalizing to the train of samples in the intro of America's Most Blunted. *Coughing* - "music... Listening to music while stoned......."
People, Reich created this record in 1966 , this is more phasing techniques than music of course, this is minimalism , this is something, without those techniques, creating electronic music in present time would be impossible.He is creator of complex structures
learning the context of this track was a real jaw-dropper. cops and capitalist society have been evil for a long time and nothing's gonna change without revolution
what a fool i was to not include this in my paper on the same subject. didn't even reach my mind cuz i was so focused on the likes of Woodstock and Public Enemy. and to think i had first heard this in music history probably a week before i wrote that paper too haha
Understanding the genesis of this piece, i can’t help thinking that the sound at the end of the track sounds like the noise of a respiratory assistance pump. Here is the sound of suffering, pain and sorrow.
I heard this when it first came out, probably on Pacifica Radio's KPFA from Berkeley -- '60s? I believe it was the first time I'd heard of Steve Reich. I have had my fill of it!
I used to work at a cafe where once every month we would stay on past closing time, so that some of the Music profs from the local university could hold an extra credit class there for their students, and play various weird music. Even though I was just working there and not a student, I volunteered fir that extra shift every month, because I loved it SO much There is literally no way that I would have found this without being able to listen in on those classes. I also found "Escalator Over the Hill" by Carla Bley and Paul Haines that way, and it is now my favorite concept album of all time. A chronotransduction indeed!
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not music! Personally, I much prefer Clapping Music and Piano Phase of Steve Reich, and if you come from a more traditional music background, those will probably appeal to you more than this as well.
I think punks would hate this. They're generally anti-intellectual, have very strict conventions about what's musically acceptable and would consider this pretentious. I think that's true of punks across different decades, continents and scenes. What's more punks tend to like young, good looking, cool and fashionable musicians.
This IS music. It's a genre called process music and represents such a bigger issue. If you feel it's repetitive and find that frustrating, you're missing the point of this piece.
Gwen Alwood this is just shit, it's like looking at a black painting, idiots will say that is awesome, intelligent people will say that this is total bullshit
Actually it's exactly the same thing he did in "it's gonna rain." The point is that the same loop played out of sync results in the words becoming meaningless and they become rhythmic.
Gwen Alcock the reason why it's so repetitive is bc its symbolism for tht particular situation(police brutality) and it keeps happening. By the end of the piece you can no longer hear words it just becomes a mass of noise. This can represent how after a period of time these kinds of things become normal and you just accept it as an ordinary occurrence
Madvillain sample in “Americas most Blunted” you’ve got more patience than I do to listen to the entire track. (Fyi the effect was achieved by playing two reel to reel machines with the same loop calibrated perfectly, and the result is even with that perfect calibration, eventually things fall out of phase over time) Good
Thanks for this. I ran into the sample in a Avant Gard documentary and I knew it was on a Madvillian track but couldn’t remember which one. Now I can go to sleep
John Mark Harris I think what also is the point is that they always need a beat. You see: modern minimal techno or pay trance does all sound the same. But as long as there is a beat and some bass, they start to dance. But this does only sound monotonous and psycho to them. Cause it's a musical experiment. Legit music to me, but I can understand that only a 'few' like it. For its time back then this was a huge step forward in electronic music.
I had an 8th grade English teacher who played this piece in class one day as a conversation starter about how speech patterns can lose their recognizable link to humanity and instead sound like a mechanistic sound when looped. I remember it creeped me out in class. Hadn't thought about this in a long time. I watch Devs last night and I'm all flipping out, hahaha! Husband is like, this is a thing?? You know this??? LOL
Originally heard this on KPPC, these crazy guys that ran the Pasadena Prespitarian Church, playing everything from Miles Davis to, Captain Beefheart, when I heard this, I fell in love with the repetition of it all. The station is long gone, but, they turned me on to masterpieces like this, back in the 60s
dang thats cool, ive heard some good stuff on KSPC, Claremont college radio stations not to far away from Pasadena. They'll do deep cut jazz, weird rock, ambient sounds, and video game music quite often.
I'd like to think the tape noise going 'kssshhh kssshhh" throughout was being "quoted" (or emulated) by Mark E. Smith in Rowche Rumble when he says "It's valium (Ksshh ksshhh) valium (Ksshh ksshh)". I'm very doubtful if that's actually the case - but I'm tickled by the idea that it WAS." Steve Reich is one of those people that until now - I've heard references to many times, but never really delved into his recordings. I stumbled on this due to references of "Come Out to Show them" ("Come out to showdom" as I (mis-?) heard it (sometimes) from Camper Van Beethoven's song "Come Out" (credited to Reich) and also from Moonlight on Vermont - which makes a very interesting double-reference which sort of mimics the double (at least) phasing of this piece. Very interesting on several levels!!
"come out" is close to a descending minor 3rd, landing approximately on B. "to show them" is close to B-C#-B. So it evokes B minor. Reich is very deliberate about his choice of generating material, and there's no doubt he chose this excerpt for its tonal properties too.
Interesting that people seem to be hearing B here. I'm definitely hearing Eb - C - D as the melodic contour. Obviously it's not a perfectly in-tune note, but I certainly think B natural just sounds like the wrong note.
Just watched a 2 hour documentary about Reich, Glass, Adams, Riley. Fascinating stuff , I have been a fan of Glass since I first saw the film Koyaanisqatsi in September 1984. Over the last 30 plus years have discovered so many different composers and music. I think that this accident in music is an important moment in artistic history, along with "in C" by Riley, Philip Glass first big concert when he was about 40, Spiegel I'm Spiegel " by Arvo Part, ... And many others, art and music.....it's still evolving ;~) England
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This work by Steve Reich, Wendy Carlos's "Switched On Bach", John Cage, Morton Subotnick's "Silver Apples On The Moon, Laurie Anderson early text re. Her Studio and a whole bunch of various Original Blues composers kicked me into the absolute most hoardy of all Gear Acquisition Syndrome enjoyers. Thy don't show the Hoarder HEAVEN in those Hoarder Documentary of 21st-Century at all. Nothing enthuses me, imbues me, infuses me more than my Empress Effects ZOIA chit-chatting via MIDI with mybPoly Effects Beebo/Digit teaching each other how to play "DUELING BANJOS" together as one United. 🙊🙉🙈🥴😎
got these messages: "show me your karma", "come on show me" and "quien mato, quien? - (in english: who killed who?)" awesome piece!! and I tried like obnoks said, meditating to these, awesome! and is actually gently raining outside while I'm writing this.
besides DOOM's sampling of this on his 'America's Most Blunted' track, there's a whole electronic EP by the duo 2 Troubles from 1993 named 'Come out...', using this same sample. worth checking it out.
America's most blunted!
I was like “I’ve definitely heard this quote before”.
Can’t believe that’s where I remember it from.
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DOOM nominated for the best rolled Ls...and they wondered how he dealt with stress so well.
@@TheOnly4Point0 wild guess… you could say he stay sedated
In 1967, I heard this on KPPC FM, Pasadena's, CA's underground radio station. Summer of Love--Ha!
When I was a teenager, 14 or 15, my dad gave me a record of '60s electronic music and it had this on it. I had never heard anything like it and I was stunned, sitting n the floor at the living room stereo with headphones on. I really think it's still one of the most revolutionary things I've ever heard. When I made music in my late teens and early 20s I think I was constantly chasing this sound I heard that was created 20 years before I was born.
I suggest listening to Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never if you haven't already
I think I borrowed that (or a similar) record from my home town's public library when I was 12
Impressive story. My mid-teen daughter at first did not like Come Out but later married a guy who also does looping music and now we're all fans of Reich/Riley/LaMonte Young.
My mom bought Switched On Bach in the late 1960's and it had a promotion 7" with other CBS music on it that introduced me to Terry Riley and Steve Reich among others. A life changing moment for me as well. I am right now listening to 5 open tabs on RUclips in my browser, 3 of them playing Gonna Rain at 0.75, 1.0, and 1.25 speed and two of them playing Come Out at 0.75 and 1.25. Very relaxing work music - seriously! Sometimes I throw in Clapping Music in a few tabs as well.
Your dad is awesome
@@JamesJeude OK, that's far out ......................
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..or is it technically a bridge?
As a drummer I'm attracted to the 'SH' of show resembling an open hi hat (in my mind anyway).
Come out drum cover when?
Definitely yes! You think it was on purpose?
@@antoinerockamora no, nothing about this was on purpose save for the execution, reich had no control over the actual music, he came up with the idea.
@@antoinerockamora Reich said the effect of the percussive plosives and 'sh' of show being - in his words - like maracas, were a fortuitous discovery, but the recognition of same, and then publishing the result as an 'opus' were deliberate.
actually he doesn't come up with the idea, it was an accident! @@SZebS
"Come Out" attracts repeat listenings, which is itself an accomplishment in tape music, whether in 1966 or today!
its not even a song
100%. Been pulling this (& ‘ … Rain’) out for nearly 30 years. Total fire.
One might say a single listening has several repeated listening within its runtime
The more things change the more they stay the same
This video definitely gives me perfect hip hop sample vibes.
Prime example of white ideas….
MF DOOM sampled it
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"Come Out was a loop of four seconds of the more than 70 hours of tapes Nelson presented to Reich."
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Thinking about that in terms of physical tape is pretty crazy too! How many boxes of tape must that have been?
I just have to say this; to anyone who has a serious passion for music and been practicing meditation for some time, you have to try meditating to this and "it's gonna rain". FULL-PERIOD.
good call !
Good fucking luck. Especially when the second segment of It's Gonna Rain comes on.. Oh boy...
@@iLikeTheUDK fr shit is fucking ass
I like to open a bunch of RUclips tabs simultaneously and run these in parallel, a few seconds apart.
@@JamesJeude of just this track specifically or different things?
I first heard this at age 15 in a high school music class, that was eighteen years ago now. Never forgot this piece or the story behind it. I continue to share it with friends of mine, like I am right now, to demonstrate how far back the origins of electronic music actually goes.
You had a cool music teacher. Education is so important, wish I had a teacher who played this intersection of music and politics.
Here, composer Steve Reich is using the basic language of music (variety & repetition) to demonstrate the slowly shifting sonic textures that are achieved when tapes that begin in sync gradually go out of sync as they naturally play (unlike digital sound which is 'held fast' to its tempo, plastic tape stretches & tenses, so any piece played on tape, this includes cassettes, will never be exactly the same length time-wise when played again - - it will be a fraction of a second to a few seconds off, depending on the length of the piece in question).
Reich then went on to apply this sort of technique in his instrumental works for orchestra, etc... repeating phrases that build & slowly shift sonically over time.
From Wiki:
Reich re-recorded the fragment "come out to show them" on two channels, which initially play in unison. They quickly slip out of sync to produce a phase shifting effect, characteristic of Reich's early works. Gradually, the discrepancy widens and becomes a reverberation and, later, almost a canon. The two voices then split into four, looped continuously, then eight, until the actual words are unintelligible. The listener is left with only the rhythmic and tonal patterns of the spoken words. Reich says in the liner notes of his album Early Works of using recorded speech as source material that "by not altering its pitch or timbre, one keeps the original emotional power that speech has while intensifying its melody and meaning through repetition and rhythm." The piece is a prime example of process music.
no hes showing them the bruise blood
If I were to fling shit at different sized plates which resonated at different frequencies, that would be more musical than this seventh grade digital arts class disaster.
@@christophermedlin6598 why thank you
@@LukeShalz everyone’s entitled to their opinions, even shit takes such as this
@@LukeShalz "more musical" lol as if that were the goal here
This feels like listening to a song in the car and waitching the windshield wipers sync up with the beat in different ways, bur this takes that feeling a lot deeper
Don't drive while you're listening to this. Please.
My first year of college, I took an elective class on Electronic Music (I was NOT a music major). In addition to having access to a Moog and Synclavier, the professor also played us tons of things like this -- Reich, Cage, Glass, etc. Blew my mind.
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Why do people use their turn signals in a left turn lane with an arrow? My Dad doesn't turn on his turn signal until he enters that lane. But people wont use their turn signal while driving down a country road with someone behind them at night when turning into a private driveway. I hate the humans.
@@MiC-T Poor etiquette and a lack of being alive and caring.
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Remember hearing this on Madvillainy, then was listening to Moonlight on Vermont by Captain Beefheart and realized I was missing something. Very glad I know now.
oh thanks! I was wondering where else I had hear it
Beefheart and the rest WERE probarbly high and drunk when Trout Mask Replica was made lol!
Furthermore doing something unorthodox takes guts-like here
Moonight Vermont-come out to show them..
Rockette Morton-Beefheart band member/Nurse With Wound track/Steve Reich inspired-so there u go!
Wow... Holy sh_t(!) Orbital's Mobius is basically a remake of this technique... in '91. This is fantastic... Thank you!! 👌
been looking for this for many years. heard it on radio maybe kalx berkeley in late 70s or early 80s...
i like the part when he says "come out to show them".... invigorating.
Hilarious
What part?
What an unpredictable comment.
I was just gonna say the same thing
I like when he says COMCOMTSHHSHH
I heard this way back in the early 1980's and this is the second time I am hearing it since then. About the same time I first heard this I was doing a lot of recording on an Akai open reel two track tape recorder. THe cool thing about this tape machine was that you could get this slapback effect similar to what you hear in this recording. I spent hours creating amazing sounds with this recorder and my guitars. When I bought a Tascam tape recorder I sold the Akai for next to nothing.
I never get tired of listening to it!
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Sampling way ahead of its time- you can hear where Eno & Byrne got some of their ideas for 'Bush Of Ghosts'
Eno admitted he took his ideas from this.
To be honest this is ahead of its time
by ahead of its time you mean useless and shitty, you are correct
There is the theory of the Mobius. A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop.
+rob16248 Orbital \m/
And when we reach that point, whatever happened WILL happen again, and when we reach that point, whatever happened WILL happen again, and when we reach that point,
And yes, I DID come her from Devs Ep 7 (or staggered over, I should say, mind thoroughly blown...)
Morbius
I remember buying this in a record store in the 1960's
Holy shit I just read about this piece on Pitchfork as a part of Schnip's Pick, and I just found this. I heard "open some of the bruise blood" and I instinctively started verbalizing to the train of samples in the intro of America's Most Blunted. *Coughing* - "music... Listening to music while stoned......."
People, Reich created this record in 1966 , this is more phasing techniques than music of course, this is minimalism , this is something, without those techniques, creating electronic music in present time would be impossible.He is creator of complex structures
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Thinking of this and George Floyd today. Still very applicable.
learning the context of this track was a real jaw-dropper. cops and capitalist society have been evil for a long time and nothing's gonna change without revolution
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come on shoulder shoulder
Woah I just happened to scroll by and read this for the short period when it does sound like that.
@@nilslobie9934 same!
Haven't heard this since 1978💓
Re inspired
I cited this in a paper about protest music as an undergrad but I didn't have access to this. This is even more powerful than I imagined.
+Robert Driggers Can you show me what you wrote? I mean, your paper.
+Robert Driggers Can you show me what you wrote? I mean, your paper.
+Rob Driggers Can you show Mercedes Gómez González what you wrote? I mean, your paper.
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what a fool i was to not include this in my paper on the same subject. didn't even reach my mind cuz i was so focused on the likes of Woodstock and Public Enemy. and to think i had first heard this in music history probably a week before i wrote that paper too haha
This composition shows You don’t need verses, choruses, bridges or even instruments. The short few and half second loops tell the whole story.
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But actually, at each stage in the phasing it feels like a completely different texture.
Understanding the genesis of this piece, i can’t help thinking that the sound at the end of the track sounds like the noise of a respiratory assistance pump. Here is the sound of suffering, pain and sorrow.
Interessante questa tua interpretazione.
I heard this when it first came out, probably on Pacifica Radio's KPFA from Berkeley -- '60s? I believe it was the first time I'd heard of Steve Reich. I have had my fill of it!
Underrated especially when this is more relevant than ever in 2018. This needs to be shared more.
If the repeated phrase starts to sound weird to you, as if the words lost their meaning, make sure to read up on the phenomenon "semantic satiation".
RIP DOOM
Pro tip - Make sure the come out and the show them are in the same key!
Reich has an extrodinary ear for deep funky rhythms. Before the sp1200 and hip hop he looped something and made a piece out of it.
come out to show them
i wonder if he's sitting in a room
I am.
similar. in a different way.
this isnt rerecorded like sitting in a room. it doesnt lose stuff like that does. its phased. the effect is not dissimilar though...
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that guy was my experimental music professor. amazing class
I used to work at a cafe where once every month we would stay on past closing time, so that some of the Music profs from the local university could hold an extra credit class there for their students, and play various weird music.
Even though I was just working there and not a student, I volunteered fir that extra shift every month, because I loved it SO much
There is literally no way that I would have found this without being able to listen in on those classes. I also found "Escalator Over the Hill" by Carla Bley and Paul Haines that way, and it is now my favorite concept album of all time. A chronotransduction indeed!
hip-hop gem untouched yet
Actually madvillany did it, america's most blunted
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Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not music! Personally, I much prefer Clapping Music and Piano Phase of Steve Reich, and if you come from a more traditional music background, those will probably appeal to you more than this as well.
Ahead of it's time still in contemporary time's.
The purest form of punk.
I think punks would hate this. They're generally anti-intellectual, have very strict conventions about what's musically acceptable and would consider this pretentious. I think that's true of punks across different decades, continents and scenes. What's more punks tend to like young, good looking, cool and fashionable musicians.
@@strikeachord7228 your generalizations are terribly anti intellectual
Dev's music has been amazing 💙✌️
This IS music. It's a genre called process music and represents such a bigger issue. If you feel it's repetitive and find that frustrating, you're missing the point of this piece.
if you find it repetitive and frustrating, that IS the point
Gwen Alwood this is just shit, it's like looking at a black painting, idiots will say that is awesome, intelligent people will say that this is total bullshit
Florent Silva, this particular track is like Jackson Pollock painting. Same repetitive notions to create a layered art style.
Actually it's exactly the same thing he did in "it's gonna rain." The point is that the same loop played out of sync results in the words becoming meaningless and they become rhythmic.
Gwen Alcock the reason why it's so repetitive is bc its symbolism for tht particular situation(police brutality) and it keeps happening. By the end of the piece you can no longer hear words it just becomes a mass of noise. This can represent how after a period of time these kinds of things become normal and you just accept it as an ordinary occurrence
Always a classic
Semantic Satiation is wieeeeeerd dude.
amazing music
Now this is music
Madvillain sample in “Americas most Blunted” you’ve got more patience than I do to listen to the entire track.
(Fyi the effect was achieved by playing two reel to reel machines with the same loop calibrated perfectly, and the result is even with that perfect calibration, eventually things fall out of phase over time)
Good
Thanks for this. I ran into the sample in a Avant Gard documentary and I knew it was on a Madvillian track but couldn’t remember which one. Now I can go to sleep
I first heard this piece in the 1970s and I have listened to it all the way through more times than I can count!
God weed
haha good weed
Og I love this piece!
8:45 is best bit where the phasing takes over. Sounds like early Kraftwerk here.
TEAR A PAGE OUT THE GOOD BOOK HEAR IT HOW YOU WANT IT
this is wonderful
Great to hear again-!
Thanks for uploading-!
I was taught the definition of Music is organized sound. This qualifies!
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I was looking for this comment
“Listening to music while stoned is a whole new world.”
“Hol’ up-“
“Nonononono”
Do they see it?? “ beauty lies in the eyes of beholder....”
Oh! Con auriculares se alucina. 😲
Moonlight On Vermont
Just came from that video... Eerie
Of course people hate this. It is trance/ minimalism/ phase music without smoke and mirrors.
John Mark Harris I think what also is the point is that they always need a beat. You see: modern minimal techno or pay trance does all sound the same. But as long as there is a beat and some bass, they start to dance. But this does only sound monotonous and psycho to them. Cause it's a musical experiment. Legit music to me, but I can understand that only a 'few' like it. For its time back then this was a huge step forward in electronic music.
sheep
Who’s here from Devs?
anttoes32 hells yes
anttoes32 You know the vibes!
yardy kno
D*Note - D*Votion
I had an 8th grade English teacher who played this piece in class one day as a conversation starter about how speech patterns can lose their recognizable link to humanity and instead sound like a mechanistic sound when looped. I remember it creeped me out in class. Hadn't thought about this in a long time. I watch Devs last night and I'm all flipping out, hahaha! Husband is like, this is a thing?? You know this??? LOL
i was just going on a reich binge, i had always assumed the doom sample was from a rap song or movie
Lou Reed tried to do the same with his Metal Machine Music set; he even had the last track non-stop on the last side of the vinyl.
Genius
Recognising instantly on DEVS!
Originally heard this on KPPC, these crazy guys that ran the Pasadena Prespitarian Church, playing everything from Miles Davis to, Captain Beefheart, when I heard this, I fell in love with the repetition of it all. The station is long gone, but, they turned me on to masterpieces like this, back in the 60s
dang thats cool, ive heard some good stuff on KSPC, Claremont college radio stations not to far away from Pasadena. They'll do deep cut jazz, weird rock, ambient sounds, and video game music quite often.
i equate this with john coltrane's "favorite things" in both resonance and depth.
its not even goofy cause the atmosphere of the point he was making is so absolute
I'd like to think the tape noise going 'kssshhh kssshhh" throughout was being "quoted" (or emulated) by Mark E. Smith in Rowche Rumble when he says "It's valium (Ksshh ksshhh) valium (Ksshh ksshh)". I'm very doubtful if that's actually the case - but I'm tickled by the idea that it WAS." Steve Reich is one of those people that until now - I've heard references to many times, but never really delved into his recordings. I stumbled on this due to references of "Come Out to Show them" ("Come out to showdom" as I (mis-?) heard it (sometimes) from Camper Van Beethoven's song "Come Out" (credited to Reich) and also from Moonlight on Vermont - which makes a very interesting double-reference which sort of mimics the double (at least) phasing of this piece. Very interesting on several levels!!
bad weed
+Shrek mescaline
+Shrek Is this a reference to the Madvillain track that samples this song?
yes
I have this on the LP. Bought at a Flea market with a big box of records
this feels like meditating.
This was a religious experience
terrible AND fantastic.
Oddly comforting...
Insane how ahead of the time this was
It definitely sounds like it could be in a minor key
Mackenzie McDougall Yeah, it almost sounds to me like an i-II or i-IV progression or something.
It's in a B minor scale, or very close, And there's a kind of III-i-II-i going on
Works well with both a C bass, or an F bass under it.
"come out" is close to a descending minor 3rd, landing approximately on B. "to show them" is close to B-C#-B. So it evokes B minor. Reich is very deliberate about his choice of generating material, and there's no doubt he chose this excerpt for its tonal properties too.
Interesting that people seem to be hearing B here. I'm definitely hearing Eb - C - D as the melodic contour. Obviously it's not a perfectly in-tune note, but I certainly think B natural just sounds like the wrong note.
Just watched a 2 hour documentary about Reich, Glass, Adams, Riley.
Fascinating stuff , I have been a fan of Glass since I first saw the film Koyaanisqatsi in September 1984.
Over the last 30 plus years have discovered so many different composers and music.
I think that this accident in music is an important moment in artistic history, along with "in C" by Riley, Philip Glass first big concert when he was about 40, Spiegel I'm Spiegel " by Arvo Part, ...
And many others,
art and music.....it's still evolving
;~) England
What’s the name of the documentary?
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This work by Steve Reich, Wendy Carlos's "Switched On Bach", John Cage, Morton Subotnick's "Silver Apples On The Moon, Laurie Anderson early text re. Her Studio and a whole bunch of various Original Blues composers kicked me into the absolute most hoardy of all Gear Acquisition Syndrome enjoyers.
Thy don't show the Hoarder HEAVEN in those Hoarder Documentary of 21st-Century at all.
Nothing enthuses me, imbues me, infuses me more than my Empress Effects ZOIA chit-chatting via MIDI with mybPoly Effects Beebo/Digit teaching each other how to play "DUELING BANJOS" together as one United.
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8:45 I start to hear "Toshiba"... LOL
+Álvaro Cáceres Muñoz I start to hear all kinds of things when i listen to this!
got these messages: "show me your karma", "come on show me" and "quien mato, quien? - (in english: who killed who?)" awesome piece!! and I tried like obnoks said, meditating to these, awesome! and is actually gently raining outside while I'm writing this.
this shit fucking rips, slays so hard
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I like the spaces in between
For ages I thought he was saying "they shouldn't come out". Strange how looping changes your understanding of the sound...
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Just learned that this piece inspired Brian Eno to do what's called "generative music"
DOOM nominated for the best rolled Ls
besides DOOM's sampling of this on his 'America's Most Blunted' track, there's a whole electronic EP by the duo 2 Troubles from 1993 named 'Come out...', using this same sample.
worth checking it out.
Brilliant!
Where is the sample from?