Steve Reich - Double Sextet 1 Asya Sorshneva, iCQ Project, Ksenia Bashmet, Dmitry Schyolkin

[GaryALucas]

I love how they don't need a conductor.

[datisookzo]

@GaryALucas nobody needs a conductor ;)

[MsDarius56]

horrible!

[MsDarius56]

borzalmas!

[gingersky1]

this is genius.

[aculturemind]

This is pretty good. Funny how it took so damn long for him and Glass, et al, to figure out musical approaches to their ideas. In fact, though in shorter forms, they'd been pre-empted by the success of film composers using such concepts.

And so it goes.....

[paperidolon]

@mistrymister i would also love to get that mp3! i actually think this group is much more lyrical than eighth blackbird's recording--which is almost unfathomably good, because that recording is wonderful.

[chillandthrill87]

this is soooooooo awesome, Steve Reich never disappoints =D

[Jingchronic]

they don´t use the headphones for a click track.

like in many compositions before, steve reich lets the ensemble play "against" a prerecorded tape, that was made prior to the concert. hence the name DOUBLE Sextett.

[ajre82]

dat Asya!

[littlepipandcowbell]

does anyone know if the pianist and percussionist are playing along to metronomes/click tracks as well as the tape of themselves?

[amistrymister]

@littlepipandcowbell no they aren't playing along to any metronome; the time signature changes are WAY too dramatic. its simple to follow since a lot of it is displaced, particularly in the first section. its basically 6/8, 2/4, 5/8, 7/8 with random alterations here and there.

[saladshootavvv]

@littlepipandcowbell looks like it. If they didn't need a click track they wouldn't be wearing headphones since you can hear the taped sextet through the speakers.

[amistrymister]

6/8 2/4 5/8 7/8 and random 5/8 and 7/8 bars here and there. So glad I hired the score to this. It's absolutely fascinating. Can't wait for the CD, september 14th :D

[amistrymister]

I've made a 22 minute mp3 file based on these recordings which I've put on my iPod - if anyone wants it, give me a shout.

[d4n13lsd]

@amistrymister

good ideas and generous disposition together are irresistible...

i would love to have another audio version of this piece, and this one sounds perfect...

[amistrymister]

@d4n13lsd what do you mean ANOTHER audio version of the piece? Do you already have one?

[d4n13lsd]

@amistrymister

@amistrymister

yeah. sometime last year i found in the net an audio from eight blackbird playing it (well, not sure... you never know)

it sounds pretty good.

[lspetry53]

@amistrymister I would love to get that mp3 file

[dukedome]

THANKSSSSSSSSSSSS FOR THE UPLOAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think steve so genial! its not boring!its not tiring! Its sound, the beauty of sound!

[d4n13lsd]

agree...

first... 18 musicians is somehow centered in melodic developments and in the PULSE.

This music also has a strong pulse but it doesn't work as a foundation in the sense that it´s not in the background for the melody, it's in your face and it´s alive. twisting at every bar. Here the pulse is, in a sense i think, working very close to the melody.

second...

by the way, love 18 AND double sextet. :-)

[amistrymister]

My first fav piece is Music for 18, and then definetely double sextet. THe strong pulse in this piece has varying metre - 5/4 and then 6/4 - quite clever.

[d4n13lsd]

mmm... i didnt noticed that was just 5/4 and 6/4... too amazed to count :-)

but its incredible thats so simple. The accents are so rich and varying (within the same part and between the sextets) that sounds like a lot more. Little magic.

By the way, octet - wich is 'just' 5/4 - was mine.

[amistrymister]

It was "yours"? Don't get it.

Yes. They are indeed incredible. You know what - Reich, in the composers notes, says that there are contrapuntal webs of sounds, but I dont hear many except in the piano and vibes. I must buy this score. This piece of music will go down in history as music from the 2000s.

[d4n13lsd]

oops!

again: octet IS my first favorite. :-)

i would love to take a look at the score... i don´t know exactly what means 'contrapuntal web of sounds' but i hear moments in the piece, when the counterpoint gets very intense, for instance, the final moments. Everytime i hear i wonder: how can all this events make a coherent whole?! it forces my humble ear (and brain) to the limits of a synthesis that is waaay beyond my regular range. :-)

[amistrymister]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE UPLOAD!

[stembol]

круть!даёшь Music for 18 Musicians!

[lacihobo]

@stembol It's similar, but it's for 6 or 12 musicians. Reich won the Pulitzer Prize with this piece!

[amistrymister]

its not similar.