i was listening to classical fm and sitting in the car waiting for the song to be over so i could figure out who did it haha it was well worth the wait
@tuktuktok Wow, you must be really desperate for likes; good comment, but writing it a second time after several months because it's no longer a top comment? Come on...
@robinwillcowie Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! No really, you already answered our own silly anecdote. If its a "good comment" why not write it again. I'm sorry my dear stalker but you got one fact wrong, it's not the top comment because it was removed since some people misread it and it caused some debate. I'm sure you have a lot to say know so go on.
Truly amazing work. A good friend of mine posted this as good music to study/work to, and it truly is. My only "aw man" moment would be that I kinda feel bad for the marimba players, since repetitive notes/chords always threw me off. Amazing music nonetheless, I would love to play this song :)
@Rcartes Less crass than the music, that is for certain, and I did most certainly listen to more than a few minutes of it. Shostakovitch is experimental, this is tripe.
@luthier81 "Today they [i.e., the Jesuits] are stronger in the United States than they ever were in any of the countries of Europe which expelled them as a menace to the government." (1912)
@luthier81 "Eight years before the attempted [Spanish] Armada invasion [of 1588], Jesuits were seditiously active plotting the overthrow of the English government. By using different disguises, aliases, and secret codes, to illegally slip in and out of England, Jesuit Robert Parson, in 1580, had led and then later organized a mission to bring other Jesuits into England to engage in a work of subversion.
@mscorney monotonous repetition is the basis for the song! the next level of it is the development of various aspects of the arrangement. silly people!!
@SaveTheArchitect you clearly don't have a deep connection with music and lack understanding to realize that this piece of music is not a song. just listen to the sound it makes.
@pjgonzales1 Of course its not a stereotypical song.. the sonic texture of the piece makes that kind of obvious. Please, Dont be one of those people on youtube who makes general sweeping statements about other users without any actual information on them.
@SaveTheArchitect no, i mean, it's not a song. there are no words, thus, no song to be sung, making this simply a piece of music. It's called minimal music for a reason. It's not as if when he composed, he could have threw in some syncopation in the rhythm or added melody. That would have nullified the purpose and resulting sound of the music. I'm trying to make you sound more learned when speaking to a musician about things like these. A song is "Old McDonald" or "Blackbird". Not Music for 18.
@mscorney "The Jesuits...are simply the Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff of Rome for emperor...that's their ideal. ...It is simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination -- something like a universal serfdom with them [i.e., the Jesuits] as masters -- that's all they stand for. They don't even believe in God perhaps."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881; famous Russian novelist)
@mscorney "[Wherever] a totalitarian movement erupts, whether Communist or Nazi [Fascist], a Jesuit can be found in the role of 'adviser' or leader; in Cuba [it was] [Jesuit-trained] Castro's 'Father' Armando Llorente..."
Emanuel M. Josephson (American physician and historian)
@mscorney "The Jesuits...are simply the Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff of Rome for emperor...that's their ideal. ...It is simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination -- something like a universal serfdom with them [i.e., the Jesuits] as masters -- that's all they stand for. They don't even believe in God perhaps."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881; famous Russian novelist)
i saw this live, i sat and went though everything that was in my head, starting from my earliest memory, i did this out of boredom but looking back it was not so bad
Finally, Steve Reich is of Jewish background. I think what makes Reich more appealing to me than other minimalists is there is a spiritual aspect which comes through. am I drunk? yues
Although I haven't seriously analysed Reich's scores, my feeling is the predominant harmony is a minor seventh chord with an added 9th and 13th, although I don't think he necessarily thinks in those terms when he comes up with his harmonies. I think he was a student of Nono or some atonalist in Italy, so he has familiarity with serialsim and their ideas of permutations, rotations of notes etc...
Personally, I find Steve Reich the most interesting of the minimalist composers, although there is some great Phillip Glass. I am still amazed how the pianists in the Octet keep going for so long with all those leaps.
which he... began with early tape pieces (Come on it's raining?). In my view, Steve Reich's music is the equivalent of, say, early Palestrina or even earlier, church of music of Lassus, Machaut, which then reaches it's peak in the music of Bach and Mozart and tails off towards Wagner etcc.... My favorite Reich pieces are probably the Octet, and then Tehillim. Music fo 18 Musicians represents a step away from the early tape and phasing pieces and a move towards a little more creative freedom
p.s. to The 189grace: write a short introduction before about the way people listen to music nowadays via youtube for instance. And ferther: Don't mention names and dates. Just write the reactions in good readable sentences with space between now and then. For my part, you call it 611.
@The198grace Life transforming piece? When I first heard it as a student I was blown away. It was like those times when you encounter a piece of music, or an experience, that you have never heard/had before. In essence, I suppose Steve Reich has drawn on the Javanese, Balinese Gamelan, and mixed this with Western instruments, Western ideas of form (ie. beginning, middle, end - narrative structure) whilst also developing his ideas on phasing (and picking out resultant melodies) which he....
Usually with music you know what makes it a masterpiece. But there's something in this piece which I can't analyse or understand...I just can't determine what it is. Although if I found out, it would probably ruin it for me. So I'm just going to keep listening.
i think we live in a magnificent artistically rich generation if a dubstep artist by the name of @VenomDubstepOfficial is telling other people to open up there minds and calling reich a genius :P it shows how if you have a mature attitude toward music, you can enjoy bach to stravinsky to cage to reich to nero and skrillex :P (and for the record its minimalist) xP
@jratcliffe91 Thanks for your kind words. I'm into all kinds of genres btw, ranging from Chill out, to classical, to dnb, to dubstep, to acoustic the list goes on.
Also, I'm not a fan of Nero and Skrillex, read what I said here: youtube.com/all_comments?v=VQLD6pBXgb8, I'm a proud supporter of the 'true' dubstep sound, I'm really passionate about genres, and what defines them, so I can't stand when people say a song isn't a certain genre, when it obviously is.
@VenomDubstepOfficial I'm sorry, but that's totally arbitrary. A genre is just a line in the sand drawn for the convenience of our habit for pigeon holing and platonicising the indescribably beautiful. If I was to play you a song from the future, of a genre not discovered, you would not give it the genre someone of that time period would. Genres are not fixed, in no way real, they are just labels, tags and names.
@ICanHazCatBurger I listened to basically everything there is however for my mp3 play I save up only some edm genres and few chillout because I think they are the perfect balance of the 4 elements. This I love to listen to on my computer during chillout, in some rare times when I'm with friends or something however in my opinion I haven't heard anything that beats the structure of the genres I listen to. Genres are rules and are fixed my friend, certain rules allow better compositions.
@ICanHazCatBurger This is the farthest symphonic pieces get however I think now is the age of genres with synthezation, Minimal Techno and house emerged directly from minimalism symphonic. Many pieces were dedicated to Steve Reich. If I were to live 30 years before in time, I would have these pieces however now I feel like new genres are just superior in rules and keep the same feeling, this of course is a already great, a classic and will be remembered as such though now there is even greater.
@Masterfootballer23 However I think the best thing that Steve Reich has done is pioneer this, it doesn't matter that his tracks are a bit repetitive or flawed in other ways, he pioneered this and that makes him great. No Pioneer ever made the greatest product out of the scene he was pioneering in.
@ICanHazCatBurger That's fine for you to believe that, but to me, genres are very important, and I see them as strong dividers between different sounding/styles of music. It's a good thing we're all allowed our own opinions, thanks for sharing yours, I respect that :)
@VenomDubstepOfficial Certainly, music by artists like Reich is astounding, and that's something we can all agree on, and I totally respect your appreciation of certain more distinct genres, it would be very petty for me not to tbh! :P in any case I'm glad we share an appreciation for the grand variety of music being created in this wonderful century :)
@ICanHazCatBurger Amen to that! Y'know I wish us YT users were less argumentative, and just agreed more often, I guess YT lacks the sense of community sometimes...
How music can stir up a million and one emotions inside of you is amazing, especially when the music is so simplistic, yet so complicated. What a beautiful paradox. Steve Reich you genius.
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this is absolute garbage, for all of those who think that this is incredible, please listen to some REAL classical music, maybe its just that this is a different type of classical music but in all honesty i dont care if it is, listen to some liszt or rachmaninoff, maybe it'll open your eyes
@HPIracing111 Holy shit I have never read such an numbfuck ignorant comment from someone who tries to sound intelligent. Kudos to you sir. This isn't classical music by the way, that it has an orchestra playing something other than a gutiar, bass and drumset doesnt make it automatically classical, congratulations on sounding even more stupid.
@jacs91 i read an article today concerning the controversy over his 9/11 album cover and they said that he was a classical composer, and what in the hell are you talking about guitars bass and drumset? i didnt base the fact that it was classical due to the fact that it was an orchestra i based it off the fact that the article informed me that he was a classical composer. and i honestly really dont give a shit what you may think of this music because either way i honestly cant consider it a piece
It's out of sync after about 5 minutes (there's a digital hit and then you notice it). If you look at the vibraphone player in centre stage you can tell when the sync goes out. That said, *any* live recording of this piece is great and I like that it's a static wide shot. It allows the audience to break down the individual parts on their own.
@mattcahill Yes the audio is out of sync with the video. That doesn't mean the performance was out of sync, just the quality of the video. It is an amazing piece.
the music of Steve Reich is so deep and immense. It communcates other places and other situations and its like "Hey! open your eyes and ears! There is somehting else going on! Look!!!" For me he is one of the most important composer of all times. People call his music minimalistic. But as tuktuktok perfectly stated, it is maximalistic! It's like looking at a drop of water and be able to see the whole ocean!
@endeavourthelimits I thought the reverse when I first heard John Adams - I fell in love with his music immediately. Then I read that Adams was greatly influenced by Reich and I think they may have even collaborated, so there you go :)
When people complain about repetition in music, I always wonder: are they against all repetition in music? Because that basically rules out all music, except the freest of free jazz. So if it's just an arbitrary amount of repetition you're against, then that really sounds like an attention span problem on your part.
@TallFastLoud I know what you mean, my parents call my music repetitive, but they listen to some 80's songs which repeat, with riffs and choruses. What do people honestly think makes a song catchy? In my mind it's obvious that repetition is the key, repetition drills in a melody or vocals into our heads, there shouldn't be any complaining there.
Steve's music is mesmerising, you can get lost in the repetition, and let your thoughts blur into a grey, just letting the repetition drill in. Amazing
@kourosh89 I think you should try opening your mind a little more, maybe you'll realise the depth of this music and see all the individual elements of the music. Steve is considered a musical genius, for breaking the barriers of generic music, by experimenting without restrictions. He stands out as a pioneer in the world of music. It would be an honour for a hotel's elevator to play this music.
diese Musik trägt im Wesentlichen zur Sensibilität des Bewusstseins im Umgang mit der Wissenschaft von Musik und zwischenmenschlicher Kommunikation (Bereich Pschologie) bei. Die Musik an sich ist ein Meilenstein natürlicher serieller Musik, die keinerlei Elektronik braucht, da das Ensemble einstudiert in den Techniken zum Gebrauch der Instrumente.
@1ofdiamonds yes, i do agree as i look over it, and i put it away. I have been in a special mood, and if you find more please contact me again or build a special group for that.
@amistrymister what would it take to be a bigger reich fan than you, mister? Ive got the entire lyric sheet of Tehillim tatooed on my back. Just joking.
@1ofdiamonds that might just mean that youre a really religious person who wants the psalms on their back. i have over 200 steve reich recordings, both live and studio. i've met him, told him im his biggest fan, and he was all like "i believe you" since i had the scores to music for 18, double sextet, city life, four sections, three movements, different trains, elec counterpoint, etc etc and even his book. there.
@amistrymister But man, ANY friend of Steve Reich is a friend of mine, & I really appreciate your videos on here, especially the live recordings. All in good fun :)
@amistrymister hahaha! & hows the restraining order working out? ;) Fucks sake, mister, if it means that much to you, take the title! I was obsessive about Reich for a while (got 'Writings on Music' right too & was at Euro premieres of You Are and Daniel Variations etc) especially after that You Are concert & hearing Different Trains and Tehillim for the first time - & good live performance is just incredible, almost transformative. But tbh there are only about 5 pieces I go back to
@amistrymister as I think there are truthfully only a handful of pieces by him that are *really* inspired - just my opinion, mister over 200 recordings , & that a fair amount of the rest is quite runofthemill & (dare I say it) dull! Theyd be Tehillim (my absolute favourite), Octet/Eight Lines (would love to have the full scores to both of those- why didnt you get these?!), Different Trains, Music for 18, and a few more of the earlier ones e.g. am quite fond of Music for Mallets, Voices & Organ
@tuktuktok As in Carl Marx? The man responsible for the deaths of 100 million people? You, sir, are an evil, run-of-the-muck, scum-face, with a dirty cum-dumpster, bimbo, slutbag of a mother.
@xxpeniskingxx Your comment is by far the most idiotic I have ever read and that is much said. You learn to read properly should read before starting your childish tirade. I am still can't understand how someone can be so subhumanly stupid to mix "maximalist" to "marximalist". Please explain me how you can possible be that stupid.
@tuktuktok Shit, I'm so baffled by your incompetence that I wrote my own comment like shit. Not that it was even nearing your failure but your lobomy lifestyle seems contagious. Seriously how the fuck can you mix "maximalist" to "marximalism". I pray you aren't older than ten.
@sapincher Can't you read? Here let me copypaste it for you "Some people call this minimalist music. I call this maximalist." Where the hell do you see marximalism in that??
@TheHitlerGuy Youtube comments are notorious for often times being written by lobotomized douchebags. Even among those extraordinary low standards, your comment is one of the most moronic. Your death will be a day of relief for everybody around you.
@tuktuktok hahah I see you're putting a lot of work into your Youtube comments. Is this your main hobby? I'm trying to get a picture of you, but your channel which is full of retardation makes it very... confusing.
Waves of waves washing over you
CharlieStrangeQuark 14 hours ago
I like minimalistic, plinky plonky music as much as the next guy, but I don't get the fuss here.
Zigzagoony 6 days ago
That blonde percussionist was very very impressive!
hahastandupcomedy 1 week ago
This is a really beautiful performance.
SerahMusic 1 week ago
Was surprised how much I liked this.
RiflemanIzzie 1 week ago
Would have loved his auto graph in London. Shame he is a cunt. :(
jamesaellis 2 weeks ago
i was listening to classical fm and sitting in the car waiting for the song to be over so i could figure out who did it haha it was well worth the wait
lesbiansaregoodandch 2 weeks ago
parece que estou perante uma pintura - Malevich - espacialidade, estrutura, textura cor. Lindo
teresa
TheTeresa9999 3 weeks ago
Toda e estrutura desta peça é fascinante... põe-nos a levitar... em transe
Tenho-a em CD e não me canso de ouvi-la
TheTeresa9999 3 weeks ago
I found the video part is not synchronized perfectly with the audio part. Anyway, thank you for posting.
jiabee 3 weeks ago
(ﾟдﾟ)great!
morgenrot1974 1 month ago in playlist MusicXComposers さんのその他の動画
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Read about Steve Reich performing a Radiohead-inspired composition in London 2013 here...
allsoundsmusic.blogspot.com/2012/01/steve-reich-scheduled-to-perform.html
The1TCM1 1 month ago
Some people call this Minimalist music. I call it Maximalist.
tuktuktok 1 month ago 2
@tuktuktok Wow, you must be really desperate for likes; good comment, but writing it a second time after several months because it's no longer a top comment? Come on...
robinwillcowie 1 month ago
@robinwillcowie Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! No really, you already answered our own silly anecdote. If its a "good comment" why not write it again. I'm sorry my dear stalker but you got one fact wrong, it's not the top comment because it was removed since some people misread it and it caused some debate. I'm sure you have a lot to say know so go on.
tuktuktok 1 month ago
@tuktuktok I very much hope this is a Baths reference, good sir.
MrCamermon11 4 weeks ago
awesome song
RecoilXX98 1 month ago
Truly amazing work. A good friend of mine posted this as good music to study/work to, and it truly is. My only "aw man" moment would be that I kinda feel bad for the marimba players, since repetitive notes/chords always threw me off. Amazing music nonetheless, I would love to play this song :)
IamThorrrr 1 month ago
I find this to be some of the most beautiful and powerful music I've ever heard. Sublime. Genius.
PromoPathways21 1 month ago
the simplicity of this piece is what makes it so elegant. a great experience im sure but a bit to deep for me
aebs12 1 month ago
goosebumps.
UnderwaterDrumming 1 month ago
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UnderwaterDrumming 1 month ago
A true artist at work!
What a guy : )
SulliArt 1 month ago
I have NEVER heard anything that has affected me as much as this. It's an experience that I could never describe.
YiCaiShan 1 month ago 4
beautiful, captivating, total rapture.
Beaupolais 2 months ago
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@Beaupolais Or horrific, ugly, boring, repetitive, talentless, monotonous, incredibly annoying, hideous, and just plain shit.
FinaleGoofups 2 months ago
@FinaleGoofups Perhaps if you listened to more than the first couple of minutes you might realise how crass your comment is. Or maybe not.....
Rcartes 1 month ago
@Rcartes Less crass than the music, that is for certain, and I did most certainly listen to more than a few minutes of it. Shostakovitch is experimental, this is tripe.
FinaleGoofups 1 month ago
to bad the video encoder lag that much 2 sec in the middle a bit more at the end!
n45w73 2 months ago
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next jewish megaoverrated crap
batalion666 2 months ago
@batalion666 I don't see how this is "megaoverrated".
StefanCIdlamn 1 month ago
Lol this video is off synch by at least 5 seconds
Kathmajp 2 months ago
I heard this for the first time over 2 years ago. It changed the way I looked at music. It still gives me chills.
sevens113 2 months ago 3
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vanillagoat 2 months ago
I was browsing The Hubble Ultra Deep Field images and had this on another tab at the same time... Teardrops came naturally.
luthier81 3 months ago 28
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@luthier81 "Today they [i.e., the Jesuits] are stronger in the United States than they ever were in any of the countries of Europe which expelled them as a menace to the government." (1912)
Jeremiah J. Crowley
countdumas 1 month ago
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@luthier81 "Eight years before the attempted [Spanish] Armada invasion [of 1588], Jesuits were seditiously active plotting the overthrow of the English government. By using different disguises, aliases, and secret codes, to illegally slip in and out of England, Jesuit Robert Parson, in 1580, had led and then later organized a mission to bring other Jesuits into England to engage in a work of subversion.
countdumas 1 month ago
I havent been this relaxed and at peace in a long time. So meditative.
LilDrummerBoy74 3 months ago
minimalism = power
diegohcatalao 3 months ago 6
one of my favorite pieces of music for coming up on 40 years I listed to it at least twice a year - there is a great multi camera video also - thanks
metro222 3 months ago
Been a fan of Steve Reich for a long time. Very unique, right up there with Phillip Glass
Barot8 3 months ago
i mean..it didn't blow my mind but I liked it a lot
legallucy 3 months ago
To those with negative comments about repetition... you really are missing the point and beauty. Shame for you really.
mscorney 3 months ago 35
@mscorney monotonous repetition is the basis for the song! the next level of it is the development of various aspects of the arrangement. silly people!!
SaveTheArchitect 1 month ago
@SaveTheArchitect you clearly don't have a deep connection with music and lack understanding to realize that this piece of music is not a song. just listen to the sound it makes.
pjgonzales1 1 month ago
@pjgonzales1 Of course its not a stereotypical song.. the sonic texture of the piece makes that kind of obvious. Please, Dont be one of those people on youtube who makes general sweeping statements about other users without any actual information on them.
SaveTheArchitect 1 month ago
@SaveTheArchitect no, i mean, it's not a song. there are no words, thus, no song to be sung, making this simply a piece of music. It's called minimal music for a reason. It's not as if when he composed, he could have threw in some syncopation in the rhythm or added melody. That would have nullified the purpose and resulting sound of the music. I'm trying to make you sound more learned when speaking to a musician about things like these. A song is "Old McDonald" or "Blackbird". Not Music for 18.
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@mscorney "The Jesuits...are simply the Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff of Rome for emperor...that's their ideal. ...It is simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination -- something like a universal serfdom with them [i.e., the Jesuits] as masters -- that's all they stand for. They don't even believe in God perhaps."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881; famous Russian novelist)
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@mscorney "[Wherever] a totalitarian movement erupts, whether Communist or Nazi [Fascist], a Jesuit can be found in the role of 'adviser' or leader; in Cuba [it was] [Jesuit-trained] Castro's 'Father' Armando Llorente..."
Emanuel M. Josephson (American physician and historian)
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@mscorney "The Jesuits...are simply the Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff of Rome for emperor...that's their ideal. ...It is simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination -- something like a universal serfdom with them [i.e., the Jesuits] as masters -- that's all they stand for. They don't even believe in God perhaps."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881; famous Russian novelist)
countdumas 1 month ago
@mscorney thumbs up!
seeafish 1 week ago in playlist Chillout
You think listening to it is repetitive, imagine playing Marimba #1!!
smellynerfherder 3 months ago 3
This would be a pain in the arse to count.
Coolcat607 3 months ago 3
i saw this live, i sat and went though everything that was in my head, starting from my earliest memory, i did this out of boredom but looking back it was not so bad
boflynn78 3 months ago
Where be the sequence?
Vivaldisse 4 months ago
Big up for Steve Reich and of course the musicians, no musicians no music...
And respect for the sound engineer!!!!
jellesound 4 months ago
this is very beautiful it is, the harmonies are very emotional
Nevaq16 4 months ago
yeh i just wrote random stuff about it. i probally will get it wrong. phahaa :)
The198grace 4 months ago
Finally, Steve Reich is of Jewish background. I think what makes Reich more appealing to me than other minimalists is there is a spiritual aspect which comes through. am I drunk? yues
dan27music 4 months ago 2
@dan27music
Philip Glass is another Jewish minimalist. Just FYI.
colourfulwithaU 4 months ago
@colourfulwithaU
Michael Nyman (and Morton Feldman) too...
kespar75017 4 months ago
@kespar75017
I didn't know Nyman was Jewish! And thanks.
colourfulwithaU 4 months ago
Although I haven't seriously analysed Reich's scores, my feeling is the predominant harmony is a minor seventh chord with an added 9th and 13th, although I don't think he necessarily thinks in those terms when he comes up with his harmonies. I think he was a student of Nono or some atonalist in Italy, so he has familiarity with serialsim and their ideas of permutations, rotations of notes etc...
dan27music 4 months ago
@dan27music berio
dowen679 2 months ago
Personally, I find Steve Reich the most interesting of the minimalist composers, although there is some great Phillip Glass. I am still amazed how the pianists in the Octet keep going for so long with all those leaps.
dan27music 4 months ago
which he... began with early tape pieces (Come on it's raining?). In my view, Steve Reich's music is the equivalent of, say, early Palestrina or even earlier, church of music of Lassus, Machaut, which then reaches it's peak in the music of Bach and Mozart and tails off towards Wagner etcc.... My favorite Reich pieces are probably the Octet, and then Tehillim. Music fo 18 Musicians represents a step away from the early tape and phasing pieces and a move towards a little more creative freedom
dan27music 4 months ago
p.s. to The 189grace: write a short introduction before about the way people listen to music nowadays via youtube for instance. And ferther: Don't mention names and dates. Just write the reactions in good readable sentences with space between now and then. For my part, you call it 611.
joachim640 4 months ago
For The198grace: you could copy all 611 reactions on this page (not me included ofcourse) Any way, good luck.
joachim640 4 months ago
i have to write about this for homework! help me!
The198grace 4 months ago
@The198grace What do you need to know?
mdkarasmusic 4 months ago
@The198grace Life transforming piece? When I first heard it as a student I was blown away. It was like those times when you encounter a piece of music, or an experience, that you have never heard/had before. In essence, I suppose Steve Reich has drawn on the Javanese, Balinese Gamelan, and mixed this with Western instruments, Western ideas of form (ie. beginning, middle, end - narrative structure) whilst also developing his ideas on phasing (and picking out resultant melodies) which he....
dan27music 4 months ago
beautiful
pancakemandan 4 months ago
I'm going to hear this tonight, can't wait!
David0794 4 months ago
less is more peeps
uv999p 4 months ago
Usually with music you know what makes it a masterpiece. But there's something in this piece which I can't analyse or understand...I just can't determine what it is. Although if I found out, it would probably ruin it for me. So I'm just going to keep listening.
catrinvincent 4 months ago
Friend: Okay, you can open your ears.
Me: [opens ears] Hey...you tricked me. This doesn't sound like gangsta rap...
furiousfingers27 5 months ago
Bijzonder!
morekew 5 months ago
This is quite nice actually.
steamednotfried 5 months ago
i think we live in a magnificent artistically rich generation if a dubstep artist by the name of @VenomDubstepOfficial is telling other people to open up there minds and calling reich a genius :P it shows how if you have a mature attitude toward music, you can enjoy bach to stravinsky to cage to reich to nero and skrillex :P (and for the record its minimalist) xP
jratcliffe91 5 months ago
@jratcliffe91 Thanks for your kind words. I'm into all kinds of genres btw, ranging from Chill out, to classical, to dnb, to dubstep, to acoustic the list goes on.
Also, I'm not a fan of Nero and Skrillex, read what I said here: youtube.com/all_comments?v=VQLD6pBXgb8, I'm a proud supporter of the 'true' dubstep sound, I'm really passionate about genres, and what defines them, so I can't stand when people say a song isn't a certain genre, when it obviously is.
VenomDubstepOfficial 4 months ago
@VenomDubstepOfficial I'm sorry, but that's totally arbitrary. A genre is just a line in the sand drawn for the convenience of our habit for pigeon holing and platonicising the indescribably beautiful. If I was to play you a song from the future, of a genre not discovered, you would not give it the genre someone of that time period would. Genres are not fixed, in no way real, they are just labels, tags and names.
ICanHazCatBurger 4 months ago
@ICanHazCatBurger I listened to basically everything there is however for my mp3 play I save up only some edm genres and few chillout because I think they are the perfect balance of the 4 elements. This I love to listen to on my computer during chillout, in some rare times when I'm with friends or something however in my opinion I haven't heard anything that beats the structure of the genres I listen to. Genres are rules and are fixed my friend, certain rules allow better compositions.
Masterfootballer23 3 months ago
@ICanHazCatBurger This is the farthest symphonic pieces get however I think now is the age of genres with synthezation, Minimal Techno and house emerged directly from minimalism symphonic. Many pieces were dedicated to Steve Reich. If I were to live 30 years before in time, I would have these pieces however now I feel like new genres are just superior in rules and keep the same feeling, this of course is a already great, a classic and will be remembered as such though now there is even greater.
Masterfootballer23 3 months ago
@Masterfootballer23 However I think the best thing that Steve Reich has done is pioneer this, it doesn't matter that his tracks are a bit repetitive or flawed in other ways, he pioneered this and that makes him great. No Pioneer ever made the greatest product out of the scene he was pioneering in.
Masterfootballer23 3 months ago
@ICanHazCatBurger That's fine for you to believe that, but to me, genres are very important, and I see them as strong dividers between different sounding/styles of music. It's a good thing we're all allowed our own opinions, thanks for sharing yours, I respect that :)
VenomDubstepOfficial 3 months ago
@VenomDubstepOfficial Certainly, music by artists like Reich is astounding, and that's something we can all agree on, and I totally respect your appreciation of certain more distinct genres, it would be very petty for me not to tbh! :P in any case I'm glad we share an appreciation for the grand variety of music being created in this wonderful century :)
ICanHazCatBurger 3 months ago
@ICanHazCatBurger Amen to that! Y'know I wish us YT users were less argumentative, and just agreed more often, I guess YT lacks the sense of community sometimes...
VenomDubstepOfficial 2 months ago
Why can't they play this kind of music on the radio these days? Honestly.
phrasmotica 5 months ago
@phrasmotica I would crash my car listening to this.
MikeDaniele 5 months ago
@MikeDaniele how fantastically disturbing yet completely understandable
BrianoJee 5 months ago
@phrasmotica probably because they can't play songs on the radio that last longer than an hour
drummerdude7318 5 months ago
Genius
NOIZYtank 5 months ago
How music can stir up a million and one emotions inside of you is amazing, especially when the music is so simplistic, yet so complicated. What a beautiful paradox. Steve Reich you genius.
Joshuawardisme 5 months ago 2
MINIMALIST? Do you know how hard it is to keep tempo with this stuff?
JordanClunn 5 months ago
Lots of empty seats at that concert... Beautiful phasing though.
kerumble 5 months ago 2
@kerumble No phasing here, actually.
mdkarasmusic 4 months ago
so beautiful
chthonic19 5 months ago
the sound is waaayy off
CrimsonEmpire 5 months ago
put on headphones....don't play it too loud... and just let it wash over you...sublime
barryandsusan1844 6 months ago
The new 10 mins windows 8 starting theme xD
MCWaxMax 6 months ago 27
@MCWaxMax That would be awesome.
mustardofdoom 3 months ago
mind = blown
matthams 6 months ago 15
beautiful,
one question though...
how do they know when to stop?
marialiyubman 6 months ago 2
@marialiyubman exactly why this is such a difficult piece to perform
rhinowing 5 months ago
@marialiyubman The vibraphone cues the ensemble to change sections. They end the piece by trailing off one by one, usually.
mdkarasmusic 4 months ago
like four tet played by real instruments
assinina 6 months ago 2
Wait, am I dreaming?
badazzpresidents23 6 months ago
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this is absolute garbage, for all of those who think that this is incredible, please listen to some REAL classical music, maybe its just that this is a different type of classical music but in all honesty i dont care if it is, listen to some liszt or rachmaninoff, maybe it'll open your eyes
HPIracing111 6 months ago
@HPIracing111 Holy shit I have never read such an numbfuck ignorant comment from someone who tries to sound intelligent. Kudos to you sir. This isn't classical music by the way, that it has an orchestra playing something other than a gutiar, bass and drumset doesnt make it automatically classical, congratulations on sounding even more stupid.
jacs91 6 months ago
@jacs91 i read an article today concerning the controversy over his 9/11 album cover and they said that he was a classical composer, and what in the hell are you talking about guitars bass and drumset? i didnt base the fact that it was classical due to the fact that it was an orchestra i based it off the fact that the article informed me that he was a classical composer. and i honestly really dont give a shit what you may think of this music because either way i honestly cant consider it a piece
HPIracing111 6 months ago
@HPIracing111 ok...relax and don't ruin it for others
kennygulley23 6 months ago
@kennygulley23 i am relaxed, i just dont see what others see in this music :/
HPIracing111 6 months ago
@HPIracing111 It'll open my eyes, but this opens my ears.
dudemnky101 6 months ago
@dudemnky101 touche
HPIracing111 6 months ago
Ahhh.... I want to buy this on iTunes but it so espensive!
19ZeldaLover95 6 months ago
It;s Ludwig von Deadmau5!
FlyingIdiotsDotCom 6 months ago
It doesn't sound like it changes much. But if you put the pointer at 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 and 4:00, you hear the differences. Good stuff.
almo2001 6 months ago
this right here is the beauty and magic and marvel of youtube. :)
anthonisaac 6 months ago
DOES anyone know which SECTION of this "18 MUSIC FOR MUSICIANS" is used in COSMOS A PERSONAL VOYAGE???? Ive been searching for two days!!!
TheJimzhe842 7 months ago
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More like Noise for 18 Noisemakers
CuriosityRoads 7 months ago
It's out of sync after about 5 minutes (there's a digital hit and then you notice it). If you look at the vibraphone player in centre stage you can tell when the sync goes out. That said, *any* live recording of this piece is great and I like that it's a static wide shot. It allows the audience to break down the individual parts on their own.
mattcahill 7 months ago
@mattcahill Yes the audio is out of sync with the video. That doesn't mean the performance was out of sync, just the quality of the video. It is an amazing piece.
Dragonflyboy80 7 months ago
the music of Steve Reich is so deep and immense. It communcates other places and other situations and its like "Hey! open your eyes and ears! There is somehting else going on! Look!!!" For me he is one of the most important composer of all times. People call his music minimalistic. But as tuktuktok perfectly stated, it is maximalistic! It's like looking at a drop of water and be able to see the whole ocean!
TCNHC 7 months ago 2
Music to be played at the grave of the last man.
palegrey 7 months ago
@ibanred you suck just listen to it and stop writing shite
crashdoyle 7 months ago
ibanred you suck just listen to it and stop writing shite
crashdoyle 7 months ago
It reminds me of John Adams more than anything else.
endeavourthelimits 7 months ago
@endeavourthelimits I thought the reverse when I first heard John Adams - I fell in love with his music immediately. Then I read that Adams was greatly influenced by Reich and I think they may have even collaborated, so there you go :)
KevorkienMD 7 months ago
I've been doing my morning jog to this piece every day for a week now. An hour of bliss.
coasterman16 7 months ago
This is film-music in a bad sense. Cut any piece out of it and you will like it in any movie. Its conformist. Not minimalist.
Nichtidentische 7 months ago
@Nichtidentische It depends where you put it in the movie.
AquariaSpirit 7 months ago
@Nichtidentische, you are simply ignorant. You can say you don't like it, but you can't presume to be able to give a technical opinion.
thallocub 7 months ago
This really is wonderful so hypnotic it transports you to another world.
dxf323 8 months ago
When people complain about repetition in music, I always wonder: are they against all repetition in music? Because that basically rules out all music, except the freest of free jazz. So if it's just an arbitrary amount of repetition you're against, then that really sounds like an attention span problem on your part.
TallFastLoud 8 months ago 3
@TallFastLoud I know what you mean, my parents call my music repetitive, but they listen to some 80's songs which repeat, with riffs and choruses. What do people honestly think makes a song catchy? In my mind it's obvious that repetition is the key, repetition drills in a melody or vocals into our heads, there shouldn't be any complaining there.
Steve's music is mesmerising, you can get lost in the repetition, and let your thoughts blur into a grey, just letting the repetition drill in. Amazing
VenomDubstepOfficial 8 months ago
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Wow this is great music...for an elevator.
kourosh89 8 months ago
@kourosh89 I think you should try opening your mind a little more, maybe you'll realise the depth of this music and see all the individual elements of the music. Steve is considered a musical genius, for breaking the barriers of generic music, by experimenting without restrictions. He stands out as a pioneer in the world of music. It would be an honour for a hotel's elevator to play this music.
VenomDubstepOfficial 8 months ago 2
Why isn't every seat full? I guess this music isn't for everyone, but dammit, it SHOULD be! This piece is absolute genius
BobSoperJr 8 months ago
diese Musik trägt im Wesentlichen zur Sensibilität des Bewusstseins im Umgang mit der Wissenschaft von Musik und zwischenmenschlicher Kommunikation (Bereich Pschologie) bei. Die Musik an sich ist ein Meilenstein natürlicher serieller Musik, die keinerlei Elektronik braucht, da das Ensemble einstudiert in den Techniken zum Gebrauch der Instrumente.
gez.
Marcus Prebridge
MarcusPrebridge 8 months ago
@MarcusPrebridge mann war das langweilig was du da gesagt hast
1ofdiamonds 8 months ago
@1ofdiamonds yes, i do agree as i look over it, and i put it away. I have been in a special mood, and if you find more please contact me again or build a special group for that.
MarcusPrebridge 8 months ago
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MarcusPrebridge 8 months ago
i want to find someone who is a bigger reich fan than me. anyone?
amistrymister 8 months ago 2
@amistrymister what would it take to be a bigger reich fan than you, mister? Ive got the entire lyric sheet of Tehillim tatooed on my back. Just joking.
1ofdiamonds 8 months ago
@1ofdiamonds that might just mean that youre a really religious person who wants the psalms on their back. i have over 200 steve reich recordings, both live and studio. i've met him, told him im his biggest fan, and he was all like "i believe you" since i had the scores to music for 18, double sextet, city life, four sections, three movements, different trains, elec counterpoint, etc etc and even his book. there.
amistrymister 8 months ago
@amistrymister But man, ANY friend of Steve Reich is a friend of mine, & I really appreciate your videos on here, especially the live recordings. All in good fun :)
1ofdiamonds 8 months ago
@1ofdiamonds good.
amistrymister 8 months ago
@amistrymister hahaha! & hows the restraining order working out? ;) Fucks sake, mister, if it means that much to you, take the title! I was obsessive about Reich for a while (got 'Writings on Music' right too & was at Euro premieres of You Are and Daniel Variations etc) especially after that You Are concert & hearing Different Trains and Tehillim for the first time - & good live performance is just incredible, almost transformative. But tbh there are only about 5 pieces I go back to
1ofdiamonds 8 months ago
@amistrymister as I think there are truthfully only a handful of pieces by him that are *really* inspired - just my opinion, mister over 200 recordings , & that a fair amount of the rest is quite runofthemill & (dare I say it) dull! Theyd be Tehillim (my absolute favourite), Octet/Eight Lines (would love to have the full scores to both of those- why didnt you get these?!), Different Trains, Music for 18, and a few more of the earlier ones e.g. am quite fond of Music for Mallets, Voices & Organ
1ofdiamonds 8 months ago
5stars!
joaofofes 8 months ago
I think he is the most relavent composer for about 200 years. He started something.
intherein 8 months ago
wow!
envoûtant!!
bandedefous99 9 months ago
L'ensemble ictus à l'opéra garnier c'était pas aussi bien !
surtout les voix qui manquaient d'énergie...
Nazgulinet021 9 months ago
Sounds like Justin Bieber at 800% reduced speed.
TheReaverOfDarkness 9 months ago
@TheReaverOfDarkness Justin could never even come close to this.
Brazilboy101 9 months ago
@Brazilboy101 you haven't heard him at 800% reduced speed
TheReaverOfDarkness 9 months ago
pure art
MFlovesAF 9 months ago 2
Some people call this minimalist music. I call this maximalist.
tuktuktok 9 months ago 50
@tuktuktok As in Carl Marx? The man responsible for the deaths of 100 million people? You, sir, are an evil, run-of-the-muck, scum-face, with a dirty cum-dumpster, bimbo, slutbag of a mother.
xxpeniskingxx 9 months ago
@xxpeniskingxx Your comment is by far the most idiotic I have ever read and that is much said. You learn to read properly should read before starting your childish tirade. I am still can't understand how someone can be so subhumanly stupid to mix "maximalist" to "marximalist". Please explain me how you can possible be that stupid.
tuktuktok 9 months ago
@tuktuktok Shit, I'm so baffled by your incompetence that I wrote my own comment like shit. Not that it was even nearing your failure but your lobomy lifestyle seems contagious. Seriously how the fuck can you mix "maximalist" to "marximalism". I pray you aren't older than ten.
tuktuktok 9 months ago
@tuktuktok dude you totally said marximalist what are you talking about
sapincher 9 months ago
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@sapincher Can't you read? Here let me copypaste it for you "Some people call this minimalist music. I call this maximalist." Where the hell do you see marximalism in that??
tuktuktok 9 months ago
@xxpeniskingxx - I wish you could witness how hard I'm facepalming right now.
toxicptl 3 weeks ago
@tuktuktok Sometimes minimalism can be a little overwhelming
popsaver 6 months ago
@tuktuktok maximalism was a counter-minimalist art movement?
DamiaanVDW 5 months ago
@tuktuktok Some people call you idiot. I call you retard. Who the fuck would call this "minimalist"? It's 18 fucking instruments you goon.
TheHitlerGuy 5 months ago
@TheHitlerGuy Youtube comments are notorious for often times being written by lobotomized douchebags. Even among those extraordinary low standards, your comment is one of the most moronic. Your death will be a day of relief for everybody around you.
tuktuktok 5 months ago
@tuktuktok hahah I see you're putting a lot of work into your Youtube comments. Is this your main hobby? I'm trying to get a picture of you, but your channel which is full of retardation makes it very... confusing.
TheHitlerGuy 5 months ago