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Process Music, in essence, is when a work abides by strict rules as to how it should be performed i. This often includes extensive notes in the scores from the composer outlining how the work should be staged and performed.

Phase Music, however, differs slightly and is more about the addition and shifting of phases, which, in short, can give you an echo effect within the music. Phase Music was made popular by Reich and his tape music.

He began slowly and speeding up the main motifs of compositions, which created a pattern which could then be overlapped, replicated, and then shadowed through the medium of other instruments, tapes, or live recordings.

Reich has become a staple household name in contemporary music and has influenced a wealth of composers including Michael Hedges, Brian Eno and John Adams. Adams had this to say about Reich and his music:.

They were the lifeblood of the musical experience, natural laws. It was his triumph to find a way to embrace these fundamental principles and still create a music that felt genuine and new. When Reich was in the midst of working on his Phase Music development, he composed the aptly named work Piano Phase.

Composed in , the piece was originally composed for two pianos or piano and a tape. The main difference between these works is that the earlier compositions that used this technique often relied on a tape, meaning that they were not necessarily performed live.

Piano Phase was composed with the intention to be performed live. It took Reich quite some time to show and prove that a musician can use the phasing technique live if they apply enough serious concentration into the discipline.

As Reich did not have two pianos at his disposal, he recorded the foundation part on tape, and then played the motif on a live piano to play mostly in sync with the tape, with some parts not aligning so he could form the basis of the composition. Before concluding with the double piano composition, Reich also wrote a similar work entitled Four Pianos, which was also premiered in However, the original two-piano version proved to be much more effective.

Lasting between minutes, Piano Phase begins with two identical lines of music, which play synchronously to start, but soon they slowly become out of phase with one another. They become out of sync by the slight speed increase of one piano.

Although this work has a repetitive nature, the piece can be analysed in three major sections. Letting the loops go slightly out of phase, he became mesmerized by the complex sub-rhythms set up by the interference, the voice morphing into a pulsing Minimalist music. It's Gonna Rain lifts those three words out of the sermon, turning them into a rhythm -a flickering repeat that shears into depersonalized cyber tones.

In a longer sequence, about people beseeching Noah to let them into the ark, the tape subdivides into eight loops of garbled counterpoint.

In he pushed the voice of Daniel Hamm, arrested in the Harlem riots of , even further towards a morass of hypnotic vibrations around the phrase "Come out to show them". Newer Post Older Post Home. Part 4: Fast. Eight Lines revision of "Octet" , for chamber orchestra.

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Second Movement. Third Movement. Track Listing - Disc 4. Come Out, for tape. First Movement Fast. Second Movement Moderate. Third Movement, Part 1 Slow. Third Movement, Part 2 Moderate. Third Movement, Part 3 Slow. Fourth Movement Moderate. Fifth Movement Fast. Track Listing - Disc 5. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Release Date September 26, Pulses Steve Reich. Section 1 Steve Reich. Section 2 Steve Reich.

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