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Steve Reich

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 and Come Out, and the use of simple, audible processes, as on Pendulum Music and Four Organs. Works like Drumming and Music for 18 Musicians, both considered landmarks of minimalism and important influences on experimental music, rock, and contemporary electronic music, would help entrench minimalism as a movement. From Wikipedia (

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Music for Pieses of Wood

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Different Trains: America—Before the war

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Electric Counterpoint: III. Fast

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Music for a Large Ensemble

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Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses

Steve Reich and Musicians

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LIFE

2024

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A Minimal Space

2024

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Steve Reich: The String Quartets

2023

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American Classical Music

2017

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Minimalism: Winter Nights

2024

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Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton

2019

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LIFE (Extended)

2024

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Minimalism for Autumn

2023

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"Patterns in Motion - The Great Minimalists: Vol. II"

2025

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Avant garde

2017

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Electric Counterpoint (Performed By Wiek Hijmans)

EP • 2013

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2x5 (Remixed)

Single • 2011

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Steve Reich: Tehillim

EP • 1982

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Electric Counterpoint

Single

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Ludovico Einaudi – Una Mattina (Live A Fip 2015)

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Steve Reich - Proverb

14 min 9 sec • Krishanth Suriyapragasam

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Steve Reich- Music for 18 Musicians Section 3 A

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Havana - Percussion corporelle

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Music for Pieces of Wood

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Ludovico Einaudi – I Giorni (Live at iTunes Festival 2013)

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Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint 1 Fast (Sheet Music) 🎶🎵

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Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint I, II, III" performed by Jonny Greenwood at BKS

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Pendulum Music - Steve Reich (1966)

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Steve Reich- Music for 18 Musicians Section 2

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Works for Orchestra

Playlist • Steve Reich • 1.1K views

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Live Concerts

Playlist • Steve Reich • 786 views

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Vocal & Choral Works

Playlist • Steve Reich • 563 views

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