Piano Phase (solo) - First solo performance ever
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN uses it as the reference performance when discussing Reich's phasing pieces and their recreation in code.
What it is
A solo performance of Steve Reich's Piano Phase, with one pianist playing both parts, recorded in 2004 with Reich in attendance. It is a 15-minute minimalist phasing piece.
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What Hacker News said
Cites radiorental · 2015-11 · on “Interactive Visualisation of “Piano Phase” by Steve Reich”
Is this it? [this video] edit: nevermind, decided (for once) to read the youtube comments. This is Kulas Hall at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory in Berea, OH
Cites bane · 2016-09 · on “Learning Web Audio by Recreating the Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno”
This is an incredibly beautiful tutorial. Art, deconstruction, minimalism and some of the greatest musical artists of the 20th century! What an amazing way to explore the mechanics and mechanisms behind these artists. I had heard of other minimalist artists before, but until a couple years ago somehow had missed Reich. I'm now an addict, especially to his later pieces when he really started growing his work into larger and larger themes. "Music for 18 Musicians" has become one of my favorite pieces of music of all time. I say this as somebody who finds a great deal of modern art fairly deplorable -- the first time I heard some of Reich's pieces I stayed up the entire night finding everything