Steve Reich

But yeah, growing up as a young teenager, rock was a huge influence.

But also the music of Bob McFerrin and Steve Reich.

It's not

like that.

like

lying on the floor at home, you know, like music for 18 musicians.

Steve Reich is turning 90, right? This year, you know, like, you know, he has like a bunch of celebrations going on now.

And what is so amazing about so much of this music, and I think that's like reflected really well in this season, is how individuality is so not only respected but uh but like it's looked after you know like finding your voice your own voice your music in every genre and sometimes from people that come from all kinds of different backgrounds that got to music through so many different paths and how that is absolutely vital to the creation of music in here you know like it's it's it's quite a beautiful thing.

I didn't get to bring it up with him, but it seems like we were talking to him about the album as if a part.

And I think that he was it seems like he was kind of listening to like maybe a lot of Steve Reich and things that informed like the post rock stuff.

Were you kind of maybe listening to like George Crumb?

Knife Clay, one of the records that you showed a copy of it when we first got here.

Thank you, Jamie.

We really appreciate it.

All right, Steven, Nick, see you cats around the pool hall.

All right.

Was that as part of the Arthur Russell series? I'm trying to remember now.

But we were certainly looking into the sort of minimalists like Steve Reich and Philip Glass and others, Lamont Young and Terry Riley, the pianist.

I managed to remember all four of them and the amount that they were drawing on these various kind of, you know, Eastern techniques, you know, gamelan music, African drumming, you know, so they were, indeed, it was very eclectic and they were bringing lots of, and partly it was about musical techniques and then partly it was some kind of aspects of kind of religious spirituality sometimes folded in.

It seems like that's what Pharaoh Sanchez is doing rather than, tapping into something that's kind of can be clearly defined as a kind of even a religious practice it's much it's much more open-ended isn't it

Yeah.

Steven Reich's music for 18 musicians is probably my favorite minimalist piece ever.

And when we listened to that, you did something where we listened to, you know, a segment and then you had me jump forward a few minutes and we listened to a little bit more.

So I'm going to do that again with this piece.

Mm.

Specifically people like Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Penderecki, uh, Olivier Messiaen-

Messiaen for sure

... to name a few who have had-

What was that other one? False Relationships and the Extended Ending, which when I heard it, I just felt such a calmness in myself around how music could be, that I didn't have to write music like Elliot Carter, which was what I had been exposed to earlier in New York, the going thing.

It was either kind of the complexity stuff or it was the downtown Steve Reich, Philip Glass.

That was all happening at once and I didn't feel like either one was my world.

But when I heard those recordings of Feldman, it really made me sit up.

Now he's ready.

Breaking ball, Steve Reich.

And you can rest assured when he's pitching and threading a needle, he's tough.

Outfield around towards left.