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, 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.
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, June 9 2008
Sound Unbound by Paul D. Miller (editor), Steve Reich (Introduction)
One contribution to the collection is a discussion of Keith’s sonic portrait, "Sexmachines", a triptych based on multiple recordings of the sounds made by a vibrator, a dildo, and an anal plug.
Wednesday, May 7 2008
Steve Reich: Daniel Variations
The acclaimed minimalist composer’s concept piece inspired by slain journalist Daniel Pearl is just as baffling in execution as it is in theory.
Wednesday, August 8 2007
The Sounds of Now: Steve Reich and the Transmogrification of the Banal
As human beings, interpretive animals that attempt to navigate the world by coming to some sort of "understanding" of it, we are addicted to purpose.
