quoted 7 lines From: "i.d.m." <i.d.m.@netzero.net>
>From: "i.d.m." <i.d.m.@netzero.net>
>To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: [idm] up, bustle, and out + cage/reich? + orb/juno reactor?
>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:44:46 -0800
>
>dj vadim ussr reconstruction is nice, too. remix by oval!?!?! too weird
>to believe - oval reinterpretting a vadim song.
are you kidding?? woah..
quoted 2 lines also, anyone have a good recommendation for something to get by john cage
>also, anyone have a good recommendation for something to get by john cage
>or steve reich?
Here's three recommendations for Steve Reich:
_Early Works_, as the title implies, is a great introduction to his work.
There's two stand-outs (to me, anyway. "Come Out" was made from a sampled
quote of someone who had been beaten in the watts prison riots: "I had to,
like, open the bruise up and let the bruise blood come out to show them." He
then chopped "come out to show them" and ran it on a number of cassette
players so the loops went in and out of phase with each other (the majority
of his early stuff is phase music made with tape loops). The second is "It's
Gonna Rain," which is splices of, you guessed it, a preacher saying "It's
gonna rain," with the second part of the song running a number of different
phrases running over each other.
_Drumming_ is incredible. It's notated, mainly repetitive, rhythms which
build and change much like a dj set. the cool thing about it is that when a
new rhythm is introduced, it is almost always a little out of phase with the
original, creating a really jarring polyrhythm and recontextualizing the
initial one, sounding like a dj taking a little too long to get two records
to lock in a groove. If you get the Deutsche Grammaphon release, it includes
(I forgot the title) Music for 8 pianos?? I think that's it. Anyway, it's
fucking sick.
Finally, _Different Trains/Counterpoint_ is something he did with Kronos
Quartet and Pat Metheny. He recorded Holocaust victims remembering the
trains, and other Americans talking about their experiences traveling. He
took snippets like "From Chicago to New York," notated the natural cadence
of their phrase, and then had Kronos Quartet play a chugging rhythm and play
along with the samples. They changed tempos and keys according to the
samples. Fucking brilliant, I think. Counterpoint is just real pretty and
minimal guitar.
quoted 2 lines i'm reading a book of my girlfriend's about john cage from a college class,
>i'm reading a book of my girlfriend's about john cage from a college class,
>i think.
A good Cage Book is _Silence_, a collection of his essays and lectures. It's
kind of difficult reading cause, well, you'll see when/if you get it.... As
far as his music goes, um, someone could probably answer it a lot better
than I could. Williams Mix is cool...
Happy listening!
z
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