Steve Reich - South Bank Show - Part 5

His musical ideas are absolutely inspirational to people like myself, even non-musicians.
I don't know how you people who have the previlege to write about him at schools, can't find anything interesting about his ideas. Just spoiled.
Whereas if you think about it in different spectrums these thoughts can still be used in different styles Techno, hip hop, dub etc.

Maybe you don't like music in the first place...

kill yourself

i have to write 800 words on this crap music

Twat!

he's given you about 3,000 just there, pick up a pen and shut up

i have to write 1000 word essay on this horrible sound.

I like the Four Tet remix.

Seeing Kronos do "Different Trains" in at the Steve Reich @ 70 concert was chilling. Hearing the triggered voices floating like ghosts high above the musicians' heads gives a very different impression than the one-dimensional mix on the CD.

The lighting design was very effective, too - different brightness levels for each movement, with fades between them.

I'd agree with that assessment. The "Megamix" was pretty good and respectful of its source material; the "Piano Phase" remix was okay; the rest were pretty uninteresting or even embarrassing to me.

well yeah, but Reich is not beyond the uninteresting and embarrassing either, then again that's art, it doesn't always work. The Reich cult of personality serves only to undermine critical discourse.