Steve Reich`s City Life - Part 5 "Heavy Smoke"

I'm a big fan of Reich and co. Thanks so much for posting this.

Amazing! Found it by chance but I had to watch all 5 parts and I'm definitely going to go and find more Steve Reich music now.

watched all 5, great performance. thanks for posting

eerie

WoW! This is RICH!

Today is September 11th and this movement is quite relevant to this day. "Heavy smoke".

i actually think this original sounds better, way more complex and interesting at the 01:58 mark

That's awesome. The changes were for the better. But there's only so much you can do with this piece. It's plagued with performance problems unless you have a real-time sound director (like Reich himself in this clip) because the sound samples aren't equalized dynamically NOR are they all accurate rhythmically. The player sometimes needs to play a millisecond early or a millisecond late so the samples "line up". Better luck next time, Steve-O!! ;)

I will disagree. I think think this is absolutely his best written score. The orchestration works so well, and look how wonderful it sounds with live sound direction!
I think this has some incredible usage of phrasing and musical direction (dare I say, neo-classical tendencies?)! Especially in this movement.

Also, no one plays Reich like Modern. They really have created a different sound with his music.

I have no beef with the piece.. but I have performed it twice and I just mean that technically, the audio samples that are played by the electronic keyboards are not setup perfectly, creating a need to "adjust" in very annoying ways, so the piece sounds correct. The music itself is fine.. it's just a pain in the butt to perform it.