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Steve Reich - Piano Phase (1967) [audio + score]

The second piano enters playing the same as first piano, then speeds up very slightly until it is note ahead, then two notes, and so on. Then it does something similar with part of the initial theme.

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normal brain: listening to piano phase at work because it’s just the right combination of regular + irregular for my frazzled brain to deal with

next level brain: listening to a slightly sped up version of piano phase with two marimbas

next next level brain: listening to a normal piano version of piano phase at the same time as a programmatically generated piano phase website I’m working on plays a slightly slower synth version in another tab

#rambl #piano phase #i just got it! i have arbitrary sequence of notes piano phaseable!

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.