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On 18 aug 2006, at 20.11, Neil Goldstein wrote: > 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.... I agree. I directly fell in love with Reich's music first time I heard it. It's an instant blessing being able to create similar sounding parts by real-time performed live looping. One difference though is that if you use EDP loop windowing or play Mobius scripts you may not always be able to tell exactly what is going on in detail, only that you like what you are hearing and thus keep composing with it. Some three days ago I was thinking about this when playing around with Mobius in 5/4, 6/8 and 7/8 timing measures. Then I checked out Reich's Music For Large Ensemble and some other recordings I keep with me on my iPod and I realized that he changes the the time measure quite a lot in his pieces. That's still rather difficult to do in real-time live looping when you are both the composer, the director and the instrumentalist in the same (poor) person ;-) Maybe it's technically possible - at least with Mobius - but musically, I mean how the hell to you reconfigure your brain to suddenly change between two odd timings? The fact that Reich's music does that is making it great IMHO, it makes you loose the orientation for a while before those seemingly fragmented sounds do fall into a new rhythmic order, as your listening does adapt to the new landscape. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) http://www.myspace.com/looproom