maruja in live


Omar Raul Ochoa Gamarra (a9411833@pucp.edu.pe)
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:35:14 -0500 (PET)



this saturday 10 april M.A.R.U.J.A ,GIRALEA AND HIPNOASCENCION
(ambient,ethereal,psicodelia) in live city LIMA-PERU hour 10:30 pm
jr Quilca casino R and R ,cover 5 soles

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, johnny borland wrote:

> 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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