quoted 6 lines I just thought I'd mention something that I heard in my electronic> I just thought I'd mention something that I heard in my electronic
>music class last week.. It was a track by Steve Reich called "Come Out"..
>It's from the 60s and consists of little more that several copies of a single
>loop slowly falling out of sync->flange->complex delay.. If anybody knows
>about the techniques applied in this record or of any similar work, pleas
>post..
As someone posted earlier, this is on the Reich 'Early Works' CD on Elektra
Nonesuch (9 79169-2), along with the earlier "It's Gonna Rain," and a piece
called "Piano Phase" that applies the same idea (repeating figures moving
in and out of phase) to live performance rather than tape loops, with good
results.
The obvious corollary to this in IDM are the short tracks that open and
close Orbital's brown album (FFRR 162 351 026-2), the first being
self-referential to their sampling of a Star Trek character on the first
track of their previous album, the last being a bit more interesting in
that they take two similar (not identical) loops and do the phase trick
with them, adding a few effects as well. In general, Orbital's use of the
technique doesn't have nearly the effect of Reich's pieces, which are
stunning in their hypnotic qualities.
Slightly less obvious, though more interesting, is Bandulu's subtle use of
the technique in "High Rise Heaven," on 'Antimatters' (their most recent
album, Infonet INF 6 CD), in which a short synth loop is given the
treatment, but it's dropped into an existing context, rather than being the
entire track in and of itself. Again, this track doesn't have the crazy
overtones flying all over the place that Reich's works do, but it's still a
jarring reward for close listening.
C.
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