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Minimalism (music) - MSN Encarta Minimalism (music), an influential style of musical composition during the last half of the 20th century. The major practitioners of minimal music are American composers Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley. Young wrote music with few pitches and with notes sustained for extended periods; his Trio in C (1958) is often cited as one of the first minimalist works. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701610421/Minimalism_(music).html   (631 words)

Minimalism - A Working Terminology Minimal music (for the time being we shall continue to use the term as fearlessly as possible) has been variously described as "trance music" (5), "systems music" (6), "process music", "solid state music" (7), "repetitive music" and "structuralist music" (8). Both "systems music" and "process music" are generally quite useful as descriptions; we propose to differentiate between the two, preferring the "process" term as being more applicable to the early works of the genre, where the compositions are structurally nothing more than single processes. This features prominently in the music of Reich written in the 1970s ("Six Pianos", "Music for 18 Musicians", "Octet") and is usually achieved by dropping the lower voices of the texture to have them return with new material underneath the upper voices of the old texture, as shown in Example 12. www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/archives/minimalism.html   (3047 words)

JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning - Torben Sangild - Noise - Three Musical Gestures Minimal noise is, however, outside traditional generic boundaries, and is related equally to avant-garde composed music, rock music and electronic music. The minimal gesture is a gesture of detachment. In the expressionist gesture the gestural subject explodes in Dionysian ecstasy; in the introvert gesture the gestural subject implodes in a blurring of its boundaries; in the minimal gesture the gestural subject is detached and minimized. www.musicandmeaning.net /issues/showArticle.php?artID=2.4   (4134 words)

Musical minimalism Musical minimalism: In classical music of the last 35 years, the term minimalism is sometimes applied to music which displays some or all of the following features: repetition (often of short musical phrases, with subtle variation over long periods of time); emphasis on consonant harmony; a steady pulse. Riley is one of the granddaddies of Minimalism. The music is spooky and hypnotic and is an early masterpiece in the genre. www.jahsonic.com /MinimalMusic.html   (1758 words)

AE160D Unit 11: Introduction to Minimal Music Leaping ahead to the evolution of modern minimalist music, beginning in the 1960's, we see the tendency towards serial music and minimal structures in the work of Robert Ashley, Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, John Adams and Terry Riley. While this also occurred in the music of the 19th century composers, Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich and Phillip Glass have had the opportunity to employ modern technology in their efforts to conjure up mesmerizing rhythms. Present day minimal compositions can be recognized by their use of atmospheric sounds, such as voices and clapping, which are exploited in combination with orchestral instruments. arted.osu.edu /160/11_MinimalMusic.php   (430 words)

NewMusicBox Minimalist music, at least originally, tended to restrict itself to a tiny repertoire of pitches and rhythmic values, like the F Dorian scale and steady 8th-notes of Philip Glass's Music in Fifths. Moreover, minimalism borrowed its name from the eponymous art movement, and there are clear parallels between the quasi-geometric linearity and predictability of Philip Glass's and Steve Reich's notes with the clean geometric lines and simple optical illusions of a Frank Stella or Sol Lewitt. The postminimalist composer Paul Epstein once suggested to me that music of strict processes is minimalist, while music in which the composer has altered the result of a process, following his or her own intuition, is postminimalist. www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=31tp01   (2082 words)

March 2004 The music is varied, colourful and often dramatic, bridging the gap between composed contemporary music and improvisation effortlessly, but doesn't showcase Hug's innovations as successfully as her solo album last year on Emanem, Neuland. Efzeg's music reminds us that the present moment - for this music as well as for us listening to it - sits squarely and eternally between the past and the future, between nostalgia and anticipation, between the memory of desire long gone and the desire of memory to come. The music is fine, but considering the poor sound and the disc's brevity (just shy of 42 minutes - and that's counting the two and a half minutes of German stage patter that interrupt proceedings at one point) it's more of a decent tour souvenir than a compelling record in its own right. www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/monthly2004/03mar_text.html   (8152 words)

NewMusicBox I was writing music of unremitting dissonance, crashing sevenths and ninths all over the place, simultaneous layers of activity, tone rows and chance processes all washing around in one big incomprehensible soup. Even where minimalism has gained grudging acceptance by classical musicians, the idea that there are musical styles that have grown from minimalism is considered heresy. Minimalism does not consist merely of the outputs of four famous composers - originally in the 1960s there were dozens of composers involved in a feverish, irascible exercise of group creativity. www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=31tp00   (1309 words)

Liminal Performance Group: Archive In 2003, Minimal at Liminal was the first in a variety of genre-crossing performances by Liminal that surveyed the ensemble’s roots in avant-garde music, art and theater. American Minimal Music, or “repetitive music,” frequently refers to the compositions of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, who all began their careers in the early 1960s. Minimal music focuses on the audible transformation of small musical phrases through repetition and the execution of processes determined by the composer. www.liminalgroup.org /archive/minimal   (285 words)

NewMusicBox (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-4.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Also, Glass's and Reich's music uses the normal equal-tempered tuning of conventional instruments, but a lot of early minimalism was microtonal and very harmonically innovative. For two decades he was a lost legend, his music unknown and almost forgotten, until the Barooni and New Tone CD labels began releasing some of his early (and more recent) performances in the mid-1990s (see discography). Barbara Benary is a minimalist greatly influenced by Indonesian gamelan music; an interest in geometric patterns and permutational processes is evident in her gamelan pieces such as Sleeping Braid (1979). www.newmusicbox.org.cob-web.org:8888 /page.nmbx?id=31tp02   (1509 words)

PhilipGlass.com: Recordings: Minimal Piano Works, Volume II Minimal Piano Works Volume II is the next CD in the series in which I'm trying to collect the minimal piano works which have been written. In minimal music I got a sense of looking at a beautiful sculpture from 3 different angles, the sculpture is still the same, but the interpretation is different. In the minimal music, or the minimalistic related works, repetition (notes, figures, systems) is the base of composition. www.philipglass.com /html/recordings/minimal-piano-works-vol2.html   (1475 words)

PhilipGlass.com: Recordings: Minimal Tendencies There is something about so-called 'minimal' music which makes it curiously well-suited to the medium of the saxophone quartet, which probably explains why there are a large number of pieces written for this combination by composers who might be described as having a foot (or, in some cases, a toe) in the 'minimal' music pond. Whether the medium of the saxophone quartet carries the same musical 'weight' as that of the string quartet is a moot point; we leave it for the listener to judge. All the musical allusions are to pieces half remembered, without access to the original source, and constitute a rather nebulous or at least imprecise form of scholarship. www.philipglass.com /html/recordings/minimal-tendencies.html   (1778 words)

Minimal techno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Minimal techno, a minimalist sub-genre of Techno music, is characterized by a stripped-down, glitchy sound, simple 4/4 beats (usually around 120-135 BPM), repetition of short loops, and subtle changes. Musical development is achieved mostly by adding or removing instruments (sounds) on eight-bar phrase boundaries and adjusting sound effects. By the the second half of 2006, the term 'minimal' had in many ways become contradictory, as it serves as a denominator for the tech house sounds of the moment, many of which should rather be coined as 'maximal' in terms of their sonic content, in contrast to the original stripped down, i.e. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minimal_techno   (459 words)

NewMusicBox Minimal music has long preceded western music in the form of chants, particularly in eastern religions. Om Mane Padre Om is perhaps the first piece of minimal music. Obviously, minimal music will continue to go on as it has in the religious context. www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=31hf03   (183 words)

Delta Saxophone Quartet - Minimal Tendencies In speaking of this tradition of 'minimal' music people often refer to the four 'founding fathers' as being Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass and La Monte Young. STEVE REICH has remained at the forefront of this musical tradition, and as his musical tradition, and as his musical style has evolved so have the forces for which he has written, from early small-scale works for a few close colleagues to full symphony orchestra pieces and, lately, an interest in multi-media collaborations. His 1974 book on 'Experimental Music' has its last chapter on the as then still fledgling 'minimal' music movement, and he also provided the preface for Wim Mertens's book on 'American Minimal Music' (1980). www.glasspages.org /mintend.html   (1776 words)

steve reich | composer The process of using the I Ching or imperfections in a sheet of paper to determine musical parameters can't be heard when listening to music composed that way. Another theme emerged in Different Trains (1988), though only as a result of a musical formal idea which he had rejected for The Desert Music and which was to prove immensely fruitful: that of using recorded speech, as he had two decades before, but now as a source of melody. Proverb (1995), intended for the Proms and the Utrecht Early Music Festival, profits from the experience he had working on The Cave with Paul Hillier and with singers who had formed their style in medieval polyphony: based on one melodic thought, it is music of drones and rhythmically insistent counterpoint, close to Perotinus. www.lichtensteiger.de /steve_reich.html   (1410 words)

Electronic - Minimal - Hypnotic - Jazz - Music - Guided Deep Relaxation and Meditation - J D Emmanuel - Daniel Emmanuel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) My music style is to first create a foundation using cyclic, poly rhythmic music, then build several layers of improvised leads and rhythms. My music is very similar to a mediatation in that the mantrum is the cyclic, poly rhythmic music foundation that I use to set the theme of the composition. My music is wonderful as background when working, reading or studying to help focus for better retention without getting too tired, as well as used for relaxation or during a massage to release tension better for deeper body work. jdemmanuel.com   (462 words)

Minimal - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music Each had a rigorous system of composition, adapting their conception of music to a style containing fewer musical elements and often involving solitary work rather than collaboration. Minimalism engages the listener with eloquent musical elements including simplistic harmonies, repetitive loops, endless drones, and subtle pulses varying in duration, volume, and speed. The influence of minimalism can be felt in the works of experimental composer John Cageand New Age instrumentalist Steve Roach as well as in styles such as ambient, modern classical, and abstract music. music.download.com /2001-8370_32-0.html   (224 words)

sursumcorda.com - download store sursumcorda compilation #2 - aural perceptions - is a FREE minimal techno net release curated by marcos romero. he took part in the beginnings of the electronic music scene in south america. he produced under the aliases madcos, or madcos d psycho with many artists and bands, and has made music for short films. www.sursumcorda.com /download/download_roster.htm   (359 words)

Mirror : Music - Montreal minimal act Crackhaus Either way, one listen to the deep minimal turtle-neck-breaking jack of Crackhaus’s first single “40oz Funk” (off the Montreal Smoked Meat CD compilation) and it’s clear that they expertly ride the line between the experimental spirit of digital sound processing and the undeniable appeal of dancefloor euphoria. Add to that their engaging and energetic live performances, and you’ve got a great blend of heady tech and future funk. Some artists are so focused on the ‘liveness’ of their set that that the music suffers as a result. www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2002/092602/music7.html   (360 words)

Wim Mertens - American Minimal Music Minimal music thus emerges as the latest stage in a development leading from Schoenberg, Webem, Stockhausen and Cage. is both analytical and polemical, distant and personal, limited to the music itself and yet positioning that music in a wider aesthetic/ideological context than is customary. Wim Mertens, born in Belgium in 1953, studied Social and Political Science and Musicology at the Universities of Leuven and Gent. www.glasspages.org /mertenbk.html   (267 words)

Beat Factor | News: Resist Music Destroys Minimal Resist's new groundbreaking compilation Destroy Minimal compiled and mixed by J16 is a collection of these new and exciting sounds that have somehow been termed minimal, yet are full and musical as well as being stripped down and bare. The main idea of the compilation is not to show who mixed the album but to who what music the DJ have mixed. The initiative of Resist Music is to feature some of the hottest tracks around and put them together in two different mixes. www.beatfactor.net /news/798/resist-music-destroys-minimal.html   (287 words)

minimal.cx » music This is very satisfying to see: artists signed to (major) labels publicly gathering to point out that the aims and desires of the Artists are not the same as those of Labels themselves. When no music is playing it is possible to make out sounds from the real world as the isolation isn’t as great as pure foam earplugs (earplugs don’t have a hole in the centre) but as soon as any music starts the relative volumes mean that everything apart from the music simply vanishes. The other is a much more immediate one: it’s not possible to eat a digestive biscuit whilst listening to music as it sounds as though half a ton of gravel is being dumped right next to my head. minimal.cx /category/music   (825 words)

All Available Artists in Minimal - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music Learn how to fill your home with the sweet sound of digital music with a minimum of fuss. Explore the best techniques for organizing your music library, accessing your collection wirelessly, integrating online radio, audio recording, and much more. From the artist: "I don`t have a standard style, my`s sets are combination of electronic, minimal, progressiv flavour, electroclash, deep house, and electronic new age (e.n.a.)." music.download.com /3605-8370_32-0.html   (259 words)

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Create Music Loops With Minimal Music Plug || The Mac Observer Polyfractus releases Minimal Music Plug as a freeware. MMP is an original multi loop player: This free VST plug-in allows to synchronize 4 sample loops (up to 5 seconds) and to control the drift between the loops. Inspired by Steve Reich's music work who used to trigger a few musical patterns together and to make it gradually move out of synchronization with each other, it creates effects from phasing to polyrythmics. www.macobserver.com /article/2002/11/27.2.shtml   (546 words)

Minimal Compact MP3 Downloads - Minimal Compact Music Downloads - Minimal Compact Music Videos When punk and new wave blew up in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, the fallout was felt on a global level even though acts from the U.S. and the U.K. snagged most of the attention. Minimal Compact from Tel Aviv, Israel were one of the little-known post-punk acts outside of the usual suspects. Formed in 1981 by vocalist Samy Birnbach, bassist Malka Spigel, and guitarist Berry Sakharof, Minimal... www.mp3.com /Minimal-Compact/artists/15520/summary.html   (130 words)

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