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Steve Reichgeboren am 3. Oktober 1936 in New York, erhielt im frühen Kindesalter Klavierunterricht und als 14jähriger Anfangsunterricht im Trommeln bei Roland Kohloff, dem späteren 1.Paukisten des New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Er studierte 1953-57 Philosophie an der Cornell University, besonders die Werke Ludwig Wittgensteins. Dort belegte er auch Musikkurse William Austins. In New York nahm er 1957-58 privat Kompositionsunterricht bei Hall Overton. Er studierte 1958-61 an der Juilliard School of Music in New York bei William Bergsma und Vincent Persichetti und 1962-63 am Mills College in Oakland bei Darius Milhaud und Luciano Berio Komposition. Wesentliche Erfahrungen machte er am San Francisco Tape Center (1963-65). Hier führte er das für seine frühen Arbeiten mit Bandschleifen beispielhafte Werk "It`s Gonna Rain" (1965) auf und arbeitete mit dem Filmemacher Robert Nelson zusammen. In New York gründete er 1966 ein Tape Studio und bildete mit Arthur Murphy und Jon Gibson sein eigenes Ensemble. Mit ihm brachte er in den darauffolgenden Jahren die für seinen Personalstil wegweisenden Kompositionen wie "Come Out" (1966) und "Piano Phase" (1967) zur Aufführung. -Music as a Gradual Process- "I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening through the sounding music... The distinctive thing about musical processes is that they determine all the note-to-note details and the over all form simultaneously. One can't improvise in a musical process - the concepts are mutually exclusive.
Performing and listening to a gradual musical process resembles:
Drumming Part I (1971)for small tuned drums, begins with a single sound in a 12-beat cycle; there are rests on all other beats. Gradually, one at a time, other sounds replace the rests, until the basic rhythmic pattern of Drumming is constructed. This is the only rhythmic pattern of the entire piece (all four parts which last between 55 and 75 minutes). When this pattern has been established by two drummers in unison, one of them gradually increases his tempo, while the other does not, so that in a few seconds he is one beat ahead of his partner; that is, they are one beat out of phase. They now maintain this new relationship, so that the combination of their parts produces new patterns, which in turn become the basis for the third and fourth players' parts. This process of shifting phases, holding to the newly-formed relationship and making use of the resulting patterns, is then repeated with two and then three drummers, each one beat away from the other. Drumming (1971)
Music for Pieces of Wood (1973)
Clapping Music (1972)
Piano Phase (1967)The first live "phase" composition, this work is scored for two identical pianos or marimbas. Listening to the colour and effect of every moment, the performers gradually shift phase as each new pattern in the two-voice relationship becomes clear and is absorbed by themselves and the audience. mehr Informationen über Steve Reich: www.stevereich.com |
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