johnny borland (paradigm@starnetinc.com)
Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:26:36 -0500
hi pedro
last night, wednesday, 7 april, i saw steve reich perform in chicago.
coldcut did not appear on the program, so, unfortunately i cannot tell you
anything about what their performance will be like.
steve reich's performance was quite enjoyable.
for those of you unfamiliar with his work, steve reich is a modern
minimalist composer. in the early to mid sixties, mr. reich began to use
tape recorders to record, loop, and minipulate sound much in the way current
electronic musicians do.
his program consisted of three pieces.
the first piece was the first two parts of a composition called 'drumming'.
this piece was influenced by reich's time studying percussion at the
institute for african studies at the university of ghana in 1970.
the piece is for four pairs of tuned bongos, three sets of marimbas, and
voice and played by up to nine musicians at a time. this piece is a study
of looped repeated patterns with the voices imitating the instruments
slightly out of phase.
the second part of this selection was mesmerizing and featured up to nine
musicians repeating patterns and melodies on the three sets of marimbas.
the second selection was 'different trains'. this piece featured a string
quartet live and source material played by the kronos quartet (up to four
string quatets making up the musical content at one time). the piece also
features recorded spoken voice samples as part of the music.
the last piece, entitled 'hindenburg', was a performance piece with music by
reich and video by his wife, beryl korot. fifteen musicians and a video
projection screen were used for this particular piece. the video images
were very interesting and quite captivating.
i encourage any and all to attend this event. i'm not sure if the nyc event
will include the same program by steve reich; however, anyone interested in
modern music should find this program highly rewarding.
johnny
cevallos@juno.com wrote:
> Does anybody have any info on this event? Are tickets still available?
>
> Pedro Cevallos
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