January 19, 200917 yr Reich's variations for orchestra is also pretty damn good. And different trains, obviously.
January 19, 200917 yr can't repeat it often enough:Desert Music did you get that? Desert Music once more? Desert Music again? Desert Music and once for good luck: Desert Music Agreed.
January 19, 200917 yr Nick Mason/Carla Bley - I'm A Mineralist "Erik Satie gets my rocks off, Cage is a dreamPhillip Glass is a Mineralist to the extremeI like tickling ivories and fingering stonesWhen my mercury goes up I play with my bone":laugh:
January 19, 200917 yr Not a big minimalism fan but there is one composer who I enjoy and is strongly influenced by the minimalist school (and Satie)- Brian Eno. The best work of his reflecting these trends is his album from 1986 called Thursday Afternoons.
January 19, 200917 yr Hey all! I have only the first variation of Different Trains ('before the war'). Could anybody send my the two other movements? :$
January 21, 200917 yr I've been listening to electric counterpoint like crazy lately. I love pat metheny's version (which i figure is the most popular)--it swings so hard!! :D
April 8, 200916 yr I like minimalism, especially some Michael Nyman stuff. Serialism on the other hand, is, in my opinion, very VERY hard to listen to.
April 8, 200916 yr Serialism on the other hand, is, in my opinion, very VERY hard to listen to. Try this :) http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/schoenberg-jazz-15819.html
April 8, 200916 yr Serialism on the other hand, is, in my opinion, very VERY hard to listen to. Or this! Bill Evans - Twelve Tone Tune
April 8, 200916 yr Or this! you do realize it's not "serialism" right? he might have used 12 tones horizontally (and he did come back on a few, so technically, a no no in serialism), but the harmony isn't based on it at all. So it's not really a valid answer to someone who is saying that they find serialism "hard to listen to".
April 8, 200916 yr you do realize it's not "serialism" right?he might have used 12 tones horizontally (and he did come back on a few, so technically, a no no in serialism), but the harmony isn't based on it at all. So it's not really a valid answer to someone who is saying that they find serialism "hard to listen to". :blush: Yah, I know....I just wanted to play too! :whistling:
May 5, 200916 yr can't repeat it often enough:Desert Music did you get that? Desert Music once more? Desert Music again? Desert Music and once for good luck: Desert Music Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Great choice. Reich is my favorite minimalist, closely followed by Arvo Part. Not really keen on Phillip Glass, though.
May 8, 200916 yr For me, La Monte Young has always been one of the "minimalists" who interested me most - together with some earlier pieces by Steve Reich (and of course Alvin Lucier, whom I find comparable to La Monte Young in quite a few aspects). The thing is that La Monte Young (and Alvin Lucier) always were more than "just" minimalists and made the interesting connections to the Fluxus movement, electronic music and other areas, without just sticking to one "label". Philip Glass and John Adams on the other hand always manage to make me angry (not even to mention P
May 8, 200916 yr FPhilip Glass and John Adams on the other hand always manage to make me angry (not even to mention P
May 8, 200916 yr This makes me angry. I think this example illustrates pretty well how Philip Glass manages to write so much music every year :P
May 9, 200916 yr Explain Ennio Morricone. 550 ish film scores in 40 years?? yeesh. Anyway. John Adams we can agree is a post-minimalist (and my favourite by quite a way) Philip glass we can agree is just... dumb. but creates the occasional pleasantly boring tunes. Steve Reich is a genius of subtlety, came up with a concept or two nobody uses and milked it as any minimalist should. Rather than just milking a C major arpeggio for 20 years like Philip glass. Theyre the big 3 IMO. I don't consider Philip as big, but he's famous enough *sigh*
May 9, 200916 yr Well, I think the pretty-much-official "big four" who "invented" Minimalism (although that's debatable) were Riley, Young, Reich, and Glass. My personal favorites are Riley and Reich, although Adams does some pretty cool stuff, too. Don't know much about Part.
May 9, 200916 yr i didn't like a lot of minimalism at first, such as philip glass's "rubric" but after i listened and learned to understand it, i love minimalism, of almost any type. Except for the really (in my opinion) obnoxious ones such as... It's gonna rain.. which, in my opinion, isn't really music... because, i mean, it isn't, it's just... a tape recording, looped with another recording of the same thing just at a different rate.
May 9, 200916 yr i didn't like a lot of minimalism at first, such as philip glass's "rubric" but after i listened and learned to understand it, i love minimalism, of almost any type. Except for the really (in my opinion) obnoxious ones such as... It's gonna rain.. which, in my opinion, isn't really music... because, i mean, it isn't, it's just... a tape recording, looped with another recording of the same thing just at a different rate. Let's not get into this. Please. Wasn't 4'33" enough? :sadtears:
May 9, 200916 yr well minimalism is based around concept, and 'its gonna rain' is a concept, which he developed over the years into 'drumming' and 'violin phase' and so on. I dunno why they bothered putting it on CD, i admit.
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