Steve Reich
Known for SoundBorn 1936-10-03New York City, New York, USA
Steve Reich was born on October 3, 1936 in New York City, New York, USA as Stephen Michael Reich.
Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
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Reich's style of composition influenced many composers and groups. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (for example, his early compositions It's Gonna Rain and Come Out), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, Pendulum Music and Four Organs). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably Different Trains.
Writing in The Guardian, music critic Andrew Clements suggested that Reich is one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history".[6] The American composer and critic Kyle Gann has said that Reich "may ... be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer".
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Known for
In the Ocean
2001
BAM150
2012 · as Self
Steve Reich: A New Musical Language
1987 · as Self
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
as Steve Reich
Michael Nyman in Progress
2010 · as Self
New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971
1971 · as Self
Steve Reich - City Life
1995
Reich at the Roxy
2006 · as Himself
Plastic Haircut
1963
Steve Reich: Phase to Face
2011 · as Self