Steve reich biography
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Steve reich biography
Steve Reich
American composer (born 1936)
"Stephen Reich" redirects here. For the soldier and baseball player, see Stephen C. Reich.
Stephen Michael Reich (RYSHE;[1][2] better-known as Steve Reich, born October 3, 1936) is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.[3][4][5] Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons.
Reich describes this concept in his essay, "Music as a Gradual Process", by stating, "I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music." For example, his early works experiment with phase shifting, in which one or more repeated phrases plays slower or faster than the others, causing it to go "out of phase." This creates new musical patterns in a perceptible flow.[6]
His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns, as on