Steve Reich • Music for 18 Musicians rehearsal

I love this piece ... mainly beacuse everytime I hear it I hear something different ... I can listen to this piece for days ...

I learned to understand repetition patterns and slowly evolving harmonics with Sonic Youth and I find alot of similarities between Steve Reich and Sonic Youth.Good electronic music like Aphex Twin has a lot to do with Steve Reich music. Wouldnt be surprised if they got inspiration from Reich. For those bashing "repetition": I canot hear repetition in Steve Reich music, it always seems like water flowing or wind in trees evolving due to the lack of dominant percursions. It sounds very natural.

beautifully said!in fact,a lot of elctronica artists have admitted to have been inspired and influenced by reich's music...

Yuotube :Stefano Ottomano

the only positive i see to music like this (crumb, adams, etc.) is that it is opening up new doors for band who make real songs like radiohead. this music as a piece is repetitive and the small changes he makes are just silly. The only thing it shows off is peoples ability to perform, and reich's ability to sit there and write the same music OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. there arent even any significant harmonic changes, i get how its interesting to here it once, but PERFECT? ur trying too hard

This music, Steve Reich, is completely different acording to the context. Its much more powerfull played live in front of you. On headphones, looking at a buzzing city, its great as well.
Its not good for youtube... :)

I heard his piece at the classic fm concert - over an hour long, by the end of it I didn't kow where I was anymore, but I guess that was yhe point!

Just fantastic, this is such a beautiful piece of music.

what I find annoying however, is that certain renditions sound different, and I have only heard one incredible one, which is on the naxos website (if you have an account there, I would recommend it!) and that is just fantastic.

other recreations of this piece sound more flimsy and are less deep, or at least i find it so,

When i say it detracts from the piece, that still doesnt change the fact I love it though

Simply perfect.

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