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Terry Riley "In C"

submitted by shagen454

1 decade 2 years 6 months 1 week ago

I love all of the minimalists but at the top for me is La Monte Young's "A Well Tuned Piano" and then Terry Riley's "In C" which he wrote in 1964. Riley also did an awesome electronic piece called "A Rainbow in Curved Air" that is pretty awesome a couple of years later. After these works I'd say Steve Reich came along tightened everything up and knocked shit out of the park.

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2123lTDcZZ8

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dystopianfuturetoday

This is an interesting piece. All of the musicians get the same single sheet of music to read. Every measure is to be played a variable amount of time and the entrances are to be staggered. As I remember there is a limit on how many cells (measures) are in play at one time. Depending on ensemble size, this piece can last upwards of an hour. I read an interview with Riley about this piece; he said he was under the influence of mind expanding drugs when he wrote this.

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Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, May 6th, 2012 9:37am PDT - promote requested by original submitter shagen454.

Moving this video to shagen454's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

PlayhousePals

It's like an aural kaleidoscope

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