Distant Destinations

Inspired by Steve Reich and his Nagoya Marimbas I wanted to write piece of music in the same style for two marimba and four performers.When a number is show above a repeated bar, that is the number of times in total that the measure plays before moving to the next measure.

Distant Destinations

Wow, that was an amazing piece! I really love Riech's work myself and you emulated it perfectly. My only suggestion would be, if possible, to create a more flowing rhythmic pulse by the time you reach the middle section. The piece has such a wonderful build to it but there is always this feeling of starting and stopping because of the melody. That's just me though. I really love Music for 18 Musicians and it could be that's what I'm wanting to hear but in all honesty this is a really well done and interesting piece.

Very enjoyable - I just think I would have preferred greater complexity of counterpoint - both of pitch and rhythmn - the opening suggests greater motivic transformations of pitch and rhythmn over a greater space of time. Or this could be the first of several pieces to form a set.

ARGH it ate my comment.

OK, so I liked it overall. It didn't have the same straightness that Reich tends to, but that's more of a compliment.

The motion at 2:30, where it drops out, I felt could have been more structured, like the decrescendo at the end of the piece at 4:20. The continuation of the piece to 4:55 is interesting, like you cut off what the piece wanted... I like that feel.

Neat stuff, for sure.

I greatly enjoyed this. I really liked the dynamic and tonal contrast throughout and the steady decrescendo towards the end until the piece cuts off with that B - E interval. It's a smooth and finite ending and I thought that was neat. I love the minimalist style in general and this was no exception. Very, very nice.

To be honest, minimalism is not my favorite style of composition. However, I couldn't say that your piece was unpleasant - I would have to agree with the previous posters that said there was a kind of ''flowing'' element missing - It was easy for me to identify where the patterns change, comparatively to more slow-moving structures. I would have tried to make the changes ever so subtler, for the sound to be a bit less clear-cut.

Thank you everyone for your responses, I will hopefully have some time this week to make some edits and possibly have a newer version up soon. (that is, if my other projects dont get in the way)

Wow -- this is pretty fun! I like how the changes in this minimalistic style aren't "Philip Glass" subtle -- I, personally, like being able to distinctly hear the differences in each phrase. I think it's great how you really exploited your small amount of material here to the fullest, and turned it into something really interesting and fun. I also thought the unpredictable amount of repeats for each different bar of music was a good idea -- keeps the listener on the toes :D

Thanks for sharing, this was really nice to listen to :happy: