Monday, May 13 2013
The Moving Pixels Podcast Explores Minimalism in Video Games
This week, it's minimalism. It's video games. What more can we say?
Friday, December 2 2011
Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet: WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns
Much like Gavin Bryars' "The Sinking of the Titanic," composer Steven Reich applies his minimal composition technique to address a great tragedy. The remaining works on this CD don't even come close to following suit.
Thursday, November 17 2011
Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason: Solaris
Cold in long flows, like streams of very contemplative melted snow running across a fairly level plain and never meeting.
Thursday, September 1 2011
Arnold Dreyblatt: Resonant Relations
Minimalism doesn't have to be so dull. Minimalism doesn't have to be so dull. Minimalism...
Thursday, March 31 2011
‘Steve Reich: Phase to Face’ Suffers from Restraint
Do you hear that? It's the sound of the surface barely being scratched over Steve Reich's career.
Tuesday, December 14 2010
Charlemagne Palestine: Strumming Music
I hope you like the two or three notes on these three CDs. If not, you're in for almost two hours of hell.
Monday, November 1 2010
Steve Reich: Double Sextet/2x5
In 2009, composer Steve Reich received the Pulitzer Prize for his composition "Double Sextet". Nonesuch's pairing of "Double Sextet" with a similar composition, "2x5", produces a mixed bag.
Monday, April 5 2010
Phill Niblock: Touch Strings
Niblock's music is both precise in its structure and an invitation to the open-ended process of becoming. Demanding concentration, it serves as a lesson in listening.
Wednesday, August 5 2009
Manga and Minimalism: The Shared Visions of Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Raymond Carver
One is an acknowledged master of the modern short story, and the other is an influential figure in the world of alternative Japanese comics.
Sunday, August 2 2009
From Gekiga to Good Raymond
They lived on opposite sides of the planet, at roughly the same time, and never met. In their lifetimes (one is now dead) each became an acknowledged and influential master in his chosen form of storytelling, and even though their media, social contexts and biographies were worlds apart, the early work of each artist bears striking similarities: they shared a melancholy, darkly humorous, and peculiarly bleak vision of character, story, and life.
