#clapping music

[jannachouchou]

Mapping project development work based on Clapping Music by Steve Reich

My tutor hated this but 🤷🏽‍♀️ 

Music: 1000 by Ben Khan

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music” combined with a loop from John Boorman’s “Point Blank”.

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[nonesuchrecords]

It was 35 years ago today: Nonesuch released two Steve Reich albums: Drumming and Early Works. 

Reich’s 1971 symphonic-length percussion piece, Drumming, is presented on the Nonesuch album in a full-length recording by Steve Reich and Musicians. The Village Voice hailed Drumming as “the most important work of the whole minimalist music movement.”

Early Works features four groundbreaking pieces from the mid-'60s / early '70s—Come Out, Piano Phase, Clapping Music, and It’s Gonna Rain—that utilize tape loops and Reich’s pioneering phasing technique. The pieces both inspired the minimalist movement and influenced generations of sound-sampling pop and electronic artists. “Absolutely spellbinding,” said the Washington Post.

[nonesuchrecords]

"50 years after its creation, it's clear that Clapping Music is more than a significant work in a single composer’s career," the New Statesman's Phil Hebblethwaite writes on the Steve Reich piece. "It’s minimalist music at its most organic; a pinnacle of the aesthetic in its initial form." You can read the article here.

[nonesuchrecords]

Live from Here with Chris Thile marked Steve Reich's upcoming birthday with a performance of Reich’s Clapping Music by musical director Mike Elizondo and drummer Eric Doob on Saturday. "As influential a composer as our country has ever produced," Thile says. "Thank you for everything you continue to do, Steve. You are an inspiration to all of us."

[wheatbeats]

The Friends Theme but it’s Clapping Music by Steve Reich

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