Piano Phase

[ljkmpr]

I just played this alongside clapping music. I love it

[scsteeldrums]

Dunno why people have to be so uptight with their critiques - Minimalism was a response to the overly uptight ideas present throughout academia at the time. Sad to see that so many of the people criticizing this are doing so on the basis of it being "untrue" to the original piece. They have completely missed the philosophical underpinnings of Minimalism. Its even reminiscent of earlier Reich. In other words - HATERS GONNA HATE.

[skellez83]

"aLLa"

[faultelectronica]

This is great. Do you think Steve Reich stumbled across the idea of phasing by accident - ie: due to slight tape stretch, but liked the result?

[dracainbloodly]

@faultelectronica I have read it somewhere... It´s propable.

[speier]

it's gonna rain

[afterthought9]

wow your piano is out of tune...

[extralargetuna]

this is what happens when you try and imitate a great composer on youtube showing your 'idea' to the world and you end up doing the same piece of shit end on end. i was expecting a great tribute vid but instead i got this. im leaving.

[DerekCrankshaft]

Shit.

[didgeboy287]

I love that moment where you can hear it in perfect phase, where it sounds like one piano at double volume.

[mollielie]

I love the way it sounds around 1:00. this is great!

[alatham82]

The click in the right channel at every loop just kills this. It's interesting otherwise.

[afkhajiit]

my dad has this old van and the ac is messed up, so it does this consistent clicking. i like waiting for the blinker and it to sync up and move completely out of sync.

[elevadorista]

Terry Riley is in the place?

[burtv1610]

metamorphosism

augmentation

diminution

subtractive melody

layering

additive melody

phasing

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madslap = the techniques used by Steve Reich :D

[burtv1610]

we learned about him in music. Apparently he'es obsessed with phasing. And we listened to 6minutes of some man going on about making a bruise bleed to hear te phase. Interesting stuff but I wouldn't say it's Mozart.

[smockinbarrels]

He has done a lot more than just phasing. Look into music for 18 musicians and different trains.

[didgeboy287]

@smockinbarrels City Life is one of my favorite pieces of his, such a range of emotion.

[falstocat]

Good job, it's certainly not Mozart. Do you know how much 300 years of Mozart would suck?

[Hyardacil]

@falstocat Mozart would be sneered at if he came to fray today.

That is the nature of art evolution.

[MeisKeen]

wow, que sensacion tan extraña XD

[lovesGenet]

steve reich is so necessary like Takemitsu people should hav this blessing of music enough russian roughnessustvolskaya no.e need more of phase and gentle and cruel truth and .Reich's ideas show how a thing can be many. and the whole truth is never just one idea.

[michaelpiano1]

how did you do this?! it would have been funny to do this with a bar from an Chopin etude or something with allot of notes..

[bobzillagrr]

wow this is great - did you just make the tune up yourself ? if so how did you work out one that would harmonise ?

[AkilThompson7]

It sounds like my computer crashed

[prismanic]

like watching the blinker of the car in front of you, waiting to sync

[jazzflutist]

Reminds me of gamelin or African drum rhythms - but with a Chinese water torture aspect to it.

[Marmalade000000]

Steve Reich was a genius - the fact that he could create the illusion that there are more than 2 instruments (in this case the piano) playing polyrhythms... this is an excellent example

[jlhc]

Steve Reich is still alive.

[shininglife88]

well it started interesting..... then it got tedious

[Mpony70]

Phasing is a great musical concept, but you also have to pick the right notes and play them the right way. I believe this was not accomplished with this piece.

[SmallRubberFeet]

And the "right notes" are so obvious, aren't they Mpony?

[emperorIng360]

Well, that, and actual phasing needs to happen, which did not in this video.

The idea is that the notes start to overlap with one another. This just keeps on playing the same mono-melody.

So as an experiment, it doesn't deliver.

[eoghdes18]

As an experiment, it achieves its purpose: a controlled, scientific study of phasing. Musicality is not required for an experiment. That can come when the composer is more comfortable with the technique itself.

[emperorIng360]

But phasing didn't occur.

The two recordings never phased, they only played on the same time frame throughout the whole video.

[eoghdes18]

Did you actually listen to the video the whole way through!? They totally phased! In and out several times, what's more! I imagine what happened was that one was looping around with a slight delay, while the other was looping straight, causing the phase. It's still a phase!

[emperorIng360]

This is rather embarrassing...

But this is what happens when your left speaker is broken!

[mjduncan80]

@emperorIng360

Thanks for the comment. This happened to me, and after adjusting the wires it sounded much different.

[vitovito1234]

I insist, this is pure garbage!!!!! SORRY!!!!!

IN ORDER TO RESTORE MY MENTAL STABILITU I LISTEN MOZART'S REQUIEM 4 TIMES!!!! NOW I KNOW WHY MOZART IS GREAT!!!!

[fernandojeon]

it's beautiful

[agmoor2]

I'm glad that your middle school band class gave you such great insights into the world of music

[themusicman428]

The only stupidity is writing off music which you don't understand. Just because you're ignorant of how it is created doesn't mean you should call it stupid. Phasing and twelve-tone are very structured and incredibly difficult to do correctly. I wish Schoenberg, Webern or Berg could see this comment and put you in your place. At least this music has audible tones, unlike some Henry Cowell or John Cage.

[marxengels16]

I've seen you trolling another Reich video, with the same ignorance, stupidity and poor grammar you show here. Just what do you have against us???

[phraze8]

its easy 1st piano keeps tempo 2nd is playin a lil bit faster thats all

[tobaccogiant23]

excellent, well done

[GreenEyeBluey]

Rubbish!

[gregoriolala]

this is something you would hear on an acid trip

[wagesoffear]

this isnt piano phase....

[MattTheHatt52]

what is then?

[TromboneConductor767]

It's not Piano Phase by Steve Reich but it's an example of phase minimalist music.

[fusionfreq]

trombineconductor767

hi

do you know if this type of music can be played to a metronome? could steve riech play those pieces he played to a metronome? i seem to be able to tap my foot to them. but they do drift in time it seems. :/

[TromboneConductor767]

Well, the whole idea is that it's going out of phase and that creates an interesting experience. The listener can pick out new rhythms and melodies because of the phasing. Now I'm not sure how people do it when they play such pieces live but I know how Steve Reich originally did it.

[fusionfreq]

thanks :) i was thinking maybe one person was to stay in time and the other drift around him i suppose thats one way. i shall have to read more on it. peace:)

[Saxman11290]

If you type "steve reich" into wikipedia there is a pretty solid biography about him which explains a lot about his music and how he started experimenting with these "phasing" techniques. Take a listen to "come out" from 1966 i think, it's the basis of this style.

[gbtimmon]

are yoo dumb?

[indiasrainbow]

one hand can play to a metronome when done right.

[CleverDjembe]

You can put both PARTS that drift around each other to a metronome.

Example: Put one in 100 and the other in 104. They will drift slowly around ech other over and over again.

[StarScr34m]

Very interesting. Phasing is pretty sweet. You should have more repetitions going on before speeding up. People need to appreciate the changes that happen. I don't feel this allows the listener to let it sink in.

[MidnightPolak]

A lot of people don't realize how difficult this is actually to play...you need to have an amazing timkeeping ability...great job on this!

[moonlitmurloc]

it seems to just be two video loops, with one slightly shorter than the other.

[elementsofinfinity]

the easiest way to do this would be to play it with noise-cancelling headphomes playing specially adapted metrenome beats. or just looping the video, which it looks like this guy did.... a well.

[martifingers]

Does this not require enormous concentration? Even to play a "small experiment"?

[piano25]

Very very very nice

I love the way they get offset and triplets begin to appear, then it solves back, then flams, then sound sound sound. i just love sound :)

[seandrumzmusic]

very nicely done.

[tomatokatsup]

Reich would've done it slower. Just saying.

Although the harmonies you made are maybe more noticeable this way? Good job then =p

[AirSerge]

Professionalism?

[AirSerge]

Just say me what is it?.. 0_o

[DatGUEnvy]

shit how come I this isnt famous this is amaaazing keep the spirits high man U are starting something unique. Enlightning music

[MattTheHatt52]

this is great

[pete5668]

ok i am off to take more pain pills

[taschutt]

Brilliant. Very very nice execution.

[anxiousnightingale]

exciting !

[bobgreen623]

this kind of stuff makes my head feel funny and disorientated but in a really really good way!

[silentbob789]

would have been better with 2 pianists ;)

but this is probably one of the only videos on youtube that i can find that actually captures the idea...

ignore these ignorant twats and get them all listening to 4 minutes and 33 seconds ;)

[HasanSabbah]

Similar to 'Discipline' of King Crimson

[rich7t7]

OH YA....this is gonna get ya laid! HA HA

[gravityhatfilms]

It got me laid.

[astabravana]

i really like the particular overlap around 1:26.

[mas418]

it's an interesting take on the idea. it's really an amazing technique, to get so much out of so little.

[semskees]

I like the sound of the piano. Very nice. :D

[njjisgod]

Nice, I like.

[micron32]

Охуительно!

[SambaDisaWinner]

dude this is great work!!!!

[carloprado1]

might i suggest a well tuned piano hehe kidding man. it was okay though im not really a fan of minimalism

[Escontico]

did you double up the phase x 2 and triple the vortex so the audible force was triple the quadruple force? crazy! its me nicolas its me!!!

[betamax88]

reveal yourself!!

[emotionaljoystick]

Very nice. You are close on note choice too. Omitting the 3rd is right, however repeating the octave is something Reich would not have done...

Good experiment though.

[athedon]

agreed

[lisiaczek]

I <3 minimalism, it sounds so good.

[darknotezero]

interesting chocie of notes. did you also vary the speed of the rate of phase, or was it constant? it felt like it stuck in a few places longer than others.

nice tribute.

[betamax88]

yeah it wasn't a flowing performance. it's a video edit actually, where on one side I loop a phrase and on the other I do the same, but it just slightly faster.

[darknotezero]

oh yeah, i figured it was a video edit, but is the faster loop *constantly* fatser, or do you have some stop points?

[betamax88]

it's constantly phasing, it doesn't stop and equalize like Reich's 'Piano Phase' (as I take it you probably know, it's properly performed, not a tape trick like 'Come Out'). I should really get in touch with one of my friends who plays piano and do a proper performance of a piece ala Piano Phase.

[phuckthefcc]

is that piano out of tune?

[betamax88]

yes.

[mwstakyle]

in my opinion its what makes it sound so good, lots of extra harmonics, damn dude, i wish i could write somethign like this, well done

[njjisgod]

or as my father would say, it's "cronky".

Out of tune but not annoyingly so.

[dorfischer]

i think that anyone that has voted less then 4 stars and less just need to know some Steve Reich. this is such an interesting experiment! it is the same pattern in phase, but the melodies change from one thing to a totally diffrent thing! maybe i should start compose minimalism....

[Captinsuarve]

Has anyone herd of the game electroplankton on DS, its basicly minimalism but in game form, Very addictive.

[VicLowenthal]

cool

[kehyot]

sounds great!

[pianophaseaurich]

just great.

[listamin]

interesting. i did much things with this technique, its very interesting. also try to phase a simple theme you can play with one hand and the other hand plays another one with the same rhythm or the same an octave higher. simply interesting :)