From escolastico Sent Thu, Apr 8th 1999, 19:35
this saturday 10 april M.A.R.U.J.A ,GIRALEA AND HIPNOASCENCION (ambient,ethereal,psicodelia) in live city LIMA-PERU hour 10:30 pm jr Quilca casino R and R ,cover 5 soles On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, johnny borland wrote: > hi pedro > > last night, wednesday, 7 april, i saw steve reich perform in chicago. > > coldcut did not appear on the program, so, unfortunately i cannot tell you > anything about what their performance will be like. > > steve reich's performance was quite enjoyable. > > for those of you unfamiliar with his work, steve reich is a modern > minimalist composer. in the early to mid sixties, mr. reich began to use > tape recorders to record, loop, and minipulate sound much in the way current > electronic musicians do. > > his program consisted of three pieces. > > the first piece was the first two parts of a composition called 'drumming'. > this piece was influenced by reich's time studying percussion at the > institute for african studies at the university of ghana in 1970. > > the piece is for four pairs of tuned bongos, three sets of marimbas, and > voice and played by up to nine musicians at a time. this piece is a study > of looped repeated patterns with the voices imitating the instruments > slightly out of phase. > > the second part of this selection was mesmerizing and featured up to nine > musicians repeating patterns and melodies on the three sets of marimbas. > > the second selection was 'different trains'. this piece featured a string > quartet live and source material played by the kronos quartet (up to four > string quatets making up the musical content at one time). the piece also > features recorded spoken voice samples as part of the music. > > the last piece, entitled 'hindenburg', was a performance piece with music by > reich and video by his wife, beryl korot. fifteen musicians and a video > projection screen were used for this particular piece. the video images > were very interesting and quite captivating. > > i encourage any and all to attend this event. i'm not sure if the nyc event > will include the same program by steve reich; however, anyone interested in > modern music should find this program highly rewarding. > > johnny > > > xxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx wrote: > > > Does anybody have any info on this event? Are tickets still available? > > > > Pedro Cevallos > > -- > > "Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth." > > " > > http://www.cat.net/~cevallos/ > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html > > or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] >