Re: Steve Reich

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

Great stuff...I've actually been meaning to write a review of sorts 
about his "Music for 18 Musicians" and see if it should be included on 
the LD site. I heard it for the first time just a few months ago, and it 
just blew me away.  If there were a required listening list for loopers, 
I'd vote for this to be on it, as a wonderful illustration of how to 
develop repetitive material over time. I love it SO much.

To my mind, it's what "live looping" could be alternatively defined as - 
musicians looping a phrase. still...one does wonder if one person could 
perform it, with the proper looping equipment and ability to vocalize 
and to at least mimic the sounds of marimba, piano, sax, etc. I  know a 
while ago some people did it with some Satie pieces...

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
> Just listening for first time to Stever Reich's "Its Gonna Rain Pt 1 &
> 2" after this getting chosen  as 100 something in the
> pitchforkmedia.com 'greatest songs of the 60's!
>
> Sounds like the Loop Windowing techniques on the EDP, but using tape 
> in 1965....