ALBUMBach to the FutureSafri Duo, Thomas Dausgaard & Danish National Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMMusic for 18 MusiciansSteve Reich Ensemble
ALBUMReich: Music for 18 MusiciansSteve Reich, Edmund Niemann, Evan Ziporyn, Garry Kvistad, Jeanne LeBlanc & Leslie Scott
ALBUMLes Joueurs de Flûte: CounterpointsLes Joueurs de Flûte
ALBUMComputer Art Festival 1986 - 1996Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, Michele Biasutti, Diego Dall'Osto, Steve Reich, Bernard Fort, Interensemble Padova & Bernardino Beggio
ALBUMAnother look at the counterpointAmadinda Percussion Group & Group 180
ALBUMPiano CircusPiano Circus
ALBUMPullover - für Kinder ab 7 JahrenTomas Bächli & Gertrud Schneider
ALBUMReich: The Four Sections, Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and OrganSteve Reich, London Symphony Orchestra & Michael Tilson Thomas
ALBUMReich: Six Pianos - Riley: in CPiano Circus
ALBUMSteve Reich: Different Trains & Electric CounterpointPat Metheny & Kronos Quartet
ALBUMDrummingSteve Reich
ALBUMEarly WorksSteve Reich
ALBUMReich: DrummingBob Becker, Jay Clayton, Mort Silver & Pamela Wood Ambush
ALBUMSteve Reich: Sextet - Six MarimbasSteve Reich and Musicians
ALBUMThe Desert MusicMichael Tilson Thomas
ALBUMReich: Variations for Winds, Strings & Keyboards / Adams: Shaker LoopsEdo de Waart & San Francisco Symphony
ALBUMSteve Reich: Octet - Music for a Large Ensemble - Violin PhaseSteve Reich Ensemble & Shem Guibbory
ALBUMReich: Music for 18 MusiciansSteve Reich Ensemble
ALBUMReich: Drumming, Music for Mallet Instruments, 6 PianosJay Clayton, Joan La Barbara & Steve Reich
ALBUMReich: Four Organs - Phase PatternsSteve Reich
ALBUMNew Sounds in Electronic MusicSteve Reich, Richard Maxfield & Pauline Oliveros
This minimalist icon transformed modern composition with his lush and hypnotic style.
About Steve Reich
Artist Biography
Steve Reich is one of the masters of minimalism. His visionary approach to composition put him at the forefront of the avant-garde in the ’60s and ’70s, but eventually his influence became so pervasive that it extended to multiple genres. Born in New York City in 1936, Reich learned piano and drums and became interested in both baroque music and jazz. In the early ’60s, he studied at Mills College, where he learned from radical Italian composer Luciano Berio, among others, and entered the world of experimental composition. He then became involved in the legendary San Francisco Tape Music Center, an avant-garde collective including pioneering composers like Pauline Oliveros and Terry Riley, and he worked on the latter’s groundbreaking minimalist piece In C. By the mid-’60s he was breaking some ground of his own with minimalist tape-loop pieces It’s Gonna Rain and Come Out, with short, repeating spoken-word excerpts layered to striking effect. Reich’s ’70s pieces such as Clapping Music, Drumming and his masterwork Music for 18 Musicians drew on his percussive background and interest in African and Balinese music, incorporating short musical phrases that interlock as they drift in and out of phase with each other. Besides inspiring a whole new school of minimalism, these works began to influence electronic dance music, New Wave and more in the ’80s. Reich’s 1988 widely hailed Holocaust-themed “Different Trains” elevated his profile even further. Reich would continue refining his sound well into the 21st century, in a world forever altered by his own innovations.
Hometown
New York, NY, United States
Genre
Classical
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