Steve Reich - Phase to Face | The Father of Minimal Music with John Cage & Philip Glass

Steves Reich shares the podium of the contemporary music with Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and John Adams.
With roots in the styles of John Cage, Lou Harrison, and others, his music is characterized by a great rhythmic drive, simplified harmonies and hypnotic repetition blossomed.
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A student of Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio, musician Steve Reich (born 1936) quickly developed a style all his own inspired by Baroque music, Bartók, Webern and Stravinsky, as well as jazz, traditional music (especially African), and Hebrew cantillation. As a trailblazing exponent of minimalist music, Reich rejected the characteristic complexity of mid-20thcentury classical harmony and tonality in order to make large-scale works from minimal materials a single chord, a brief musical motif, a spoken exclamation - thereby reconciling sacred and popular music. In this profile, he looks back on the key stages of his 40-years lasting career, from the formation of his own group, Steve Reich, and Musicians, to the American avant-garde he helped to create, from new video performances to his quasi-religious music. Despite his success and wide recognition Steve Reich has never renounced his independent spirit and has been a tireless warrior in the struggle to bridge the gap between "high" and "low" culture.
At the Sacrum Profanum festival in Krakow, Poland, the American minimalist was surprised by Jonny Greenwood's interpretation of Electric Counterpoint, which led to the collaboration between Radiohead and Steve Reich. In his album Radio Rewrite, the composer includes "Jigsaw Falling into Place" (2007) and "Everything in Its Right Place" (2000) as well as Jonny Greenwood's version of "Electric Counterpoint".

[@gabrielepetrucci1081]

Fantastic, wow! Seriously, he is one of the most important revolutionary in history of music!
Best for this man!

[@mwmingram]

Wonderful. Thank you.

[@procesionescelestes5493]

beautiful

[@niyagentleman8143]

corpophony
^^ 9:40

[@Elolelo320]

I like this guy.

[@musicaantigua869]

Muchas gracias euro chart Channel

[@dragos6262]

11:48 nice groove

[@Forestier1]

The video’s title gave me the impression that Philip Glass and John Cage would make an appearance. They don’t but no matter!

[@darylcumming7119]

🙂

[@chadchan1316]

What is the music at the beginning?

[@montigol]

Steve Reich's "Proverb"

[@chadchan1316]

Thanks

[@yood6226]

whats the song at 43:58 ?

[@kaloyanpaunov]

The cave

[@robertoivanperezluna6467]

phase patterns es la rola

[@arcturusk649]

overwhelming cacophony

[@hugojames85]

It all beats the shit out of, say, hip-hop, but the "success" of composers like Steve Reich is entirely dependent on: 1) Magically breezing through the most exclusive colleges in the world - Cornell, Harvard and Juilliard in Reich's case - when no-one else can get anywhere near them; 2) Having critics say "You're a genius!", when they tell all other composers with virtually identical music that they're shit; and 3) Always using predominantly percussion, which, let's face it, is a helluva lot easier to work with than tuned instruments.

[@franciscoaragao5398]

Glass is not father of minimal music. Pay attention

[@SamiShah2004]

They are not calling him *The* father of minimalism. But he is *One* of the pioneers of the minimalist school.

[@Schimelln]

I don't think you can 100% pinpoint the exact genesis of a genre, every one has his influences, but I'd definitely name Eric Satie when speaking about Minimal Music.