Piano/Video Phase (excerpt)

[WielkiZielonyMelon]

Yesterday I attended a concert. Bang on a Can All-stars performed Steve Reich pieces.

They started with clapping music with Steve Reich himself. I never thought that two people clapping hands could make such incredible music.

They finished with 2x5.

But Video Phase was probably the best part of the evening. There was a projection of this musician and behind it was a real musician phasing in and out... I lost myself so many times this evening. One of the best concerts I have ever attended!

[Edwardcore00]

STEVE REICH: LO MEJOR DEL SIGLO XX.

[corey1adam]

I opened 4 windows and I could still hear the phase effect. There was still a pattern. So fascinating. I could listen to this in my car or while working. Love it.

[NeptsLaze]

this is very trippy, i wonder if these are alpha waves . . .

[antfactor]

beautiful! I love this!

[Jdcie]

This is really sweet, but the word "phase" is really thrown around. If there was truly phase fluctuation in this piece, you'd hear comb filtering as various frequencies add and subtract.

[BilboHalfling]

@Jdcie Steve Reich originally made this piece by playing two identical tapes on different machines, and one played slightly slower. So the effects you are talking about would have been there. But regardless, the word phase here is totally valid. Phase in this case would be about two things that are in phase with each other, slowly coming out of phase (or sync, etc). This meaning was around long before the advent of audio engineers, who applied the original meaning to recorded sound.

[burger414]

very interesting and impressive!

[trunks2861]

this is amazing

[Saxobro1224]

look up the notes. its sooooo much cooler when u understand it.

[0099005500660077]

what a wonderful composition! but it tires my ear drums after a while!

[elementsofinfinity]

same notes as marimba phase, another one by him except its 22 minutes long. i like marimba phase better. the notes are F#, g#, c#, d#, e, g#, f#, d#, c#, g#, e, d#, repeat on 2 marimbas facing each other, htere are two more phases which i'l leave you to figure out...

[allansnow]

oh oh eierkopfalarm

[moolox]

fascinating piece of music, a brilliant performance!!

[MADRRRRR]

i got him 4 times ! cause i got 2 'tabs' of this page open .. :P

[JGS1186]

Nice. I love how the movement of his arms demonstrates the phase difference.

[CaseyCangelosi]

This is great because now we don't have explain phasing, we can just show em' this.

[cuteathlete]

saw this performed like this in concert... stunning... the coolest concept, especially since when it starts you don't realize that the actual musician is seated behind the video projection and will play against himself live. When the lights come up on him, the whole audience smiled and was in awe.

[sunaosama]

he is god(w

[hisclarkness]

very nice! this piece takes soooo much concentration to go all the way through

[felaiuki]

very very nice!

[lowlowprices]

very clever