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Steve Reich
Born: 3rd October 1936, New York, U.S.A
Nationality: American
Stephen Michael Reich is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich describes this concept in his essay "Music as a Gradual Process" by stating, "I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music." For example, his early works experiment with phase shifting, in which one or more repeated phrases plays slower or faster than the others, causing it to go "out of phase." This creates new musical patterns in a perceptible flow.
His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns, as on the early compositions It's Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966), and the use of simple, audible processes, as on Pendulum Music (1968) and Four Organs (1970).
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Further Reading: Reich
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Steve Reich, Big and Small
25th Jul 2025
An EP of two new works by Steve Reich, a new live recording of Reich and Hisaishi, and a huge, delicious box-set of Reich on Nonesuch.
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Play It Again, Steve - Minimalism and more from Steve Reich
11th Mar 2025
Our guest-contributor Rob Cowan explores a new collection on Nonesuch (released this coming Friday), representing six decades of Reich’s compositions and celebrating his forty-year relationship with the label.
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- 2x5 (4)
- 3 Movements (2)
- Cello Counterpoint (8)
- City Life (9)
- Clapping Music (20)
- Come Out (5)
- Dance Patterns (4)
- Daniel Variations (4)
- Different Trains (13)
- Double Sextet (8)
- Drumming (13)
- Drumming: Part I (2)
- Drumming: Part III (1971) for four percussionists, piccolo and ‘whistler' (1)
- Drumming: Part IV (1)
- Duet (11)
- Eight Lines (10)
- Electric Counterpoint (30)
- Electric Counterpoint: 3rd movement (1)
- Electric Guitar Phase (4)
- Escortic Joynt (remix: Trio Escort) (1)
- Four Organs (9)
- Gra - for solo clarinet (1)
- It's Gonna Rain (2)
- Jacob's Ladder (1)
- Mallet Quartet (5)
- Marimba Phase (4)
- Music for 18 Musicians (19)
- Music for 2 or More Pianos (1)
- Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (3)
- Music for Large Ensemble (7)
- Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (10)
- Music for Pieces of Wood (16)
- My Name Is (1)
- Nagoya Guitars (3)
- Nagoya Marimba (4)
- Nagoya Marimbas (15)
- New York Counterpoint (34)
- Octet (3)
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- Piano Counterpoint (3)
- Piano Phase (14)
- Proverb (7)
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- Quartet (5)
- Radio Rewrite (4)
- Rain (2)
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- Runner (4)
- Sextet (14)
- Six Marimbas (7)
- Six Pianos (7)
- Tehillim (8)
- The Cave (3)
- The Desert Music (9)
- The four sections (6)
- Three Movements for Orchestra (2)
- Three Tales (1)
- Tokyo/Vermont Counterpoint (2)
- Traveler's Prayer (3)
- Triple Quartet (10)
- Variations For Vibes Pianos And Strings (4)
- Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards (7)
- Vermont Counterpoint (15)
- Violin Phase (6)
- WTC 9/11 (6)
- You Are (Variations) (5)
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