Re: [313] musical question ... minimal classical

2000-11-24 Thread Nick Walsh
--- Null DuJour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone please point me in the direction of some kind of minimal experimnetal classical music? It would be greatly appreciated. thx. Keep an eye open for Titonton's forthcoming LP Selections for Intercourse. It's out in March next Year on his

Re: [313] musical question ... minimal classical

2000-11-22 Thread Jonny McIntosh
As well as those already mentioned I'd suggest Varese, he basically wanted new instruments, so was very interested in electronics, and at times his earlier stuff is a precursor to Sun Ra's 60s output (I hate that kind of classical composer X did it before jazz fella Y argument too - that's not

RE: [313] musical question ... minimal classical

2000-11-22 Thread D . J . Butler
/DanButler -Original Message- From: Jonny McIntosh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 November 2000 11:44 To: 313 Subject: Re: [313] musical question ... minimal classical As well as those already mentioned I'd suggest Varese, he basically wanted new instruments, so was very

Re: [313] musical question ... minimal classical

2000-11-22 Thread [tan]
From: debonair [EMAIL PROTECTED] the obvious are works by philip glass, steve reich, gavin bryars, arvo part. bryars is a fool. jesus blood never failed me is perhaps the lamest tune ever done! others: La Mont Young - his high tension wire pieces sound like pullover by speedy j John Cage -

Re: [313] musical question ... minimal classical

2000-11-22 Thread Jonny McIntosh
Also, what about the lp he was going to be producing of drummers (were they African?)... whatever has happened to that? I thought it was Sundiata Ohm (sp?) who did some stuff on Prescription. At the time he said it p***ed all over the NuYorican Soul LP. I'm still waiting to see... And please

Re: [313] musical question ... minimal classical

2000-11-22 Thread Scott Vallance
Reich is the man though... his phase pieces, music for 18 muscians, tellihem (sp?!?!) *swoon* i've heard a lot of remixes of come out ... ken ishii played one last year on NYE... Reich's drumming is fantastic. Its impossible to listen to it and not see the similarities to some techno - some

Re: [313] musical question ... minimal classical

2000-11-22 Thread Gerald
Nik Stoltzman wrote: A 'safe' place to start is with the compositions of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. My recommendations are: Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint - Music For 18 Musicians Philip Glass - Solo Piano - Koyaanisqatsi (he seems to do a lot of film

Re: [313] musical question ... minimal classical

2000-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on 11/22/2000 8:42 PM, [tan] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bryars is a fool. jesus blood never failed me is perhaps the lamest tune ever done! Possibly you're allergic to Tom Waits? I challenge anyone to listen closely to Sinking of the Titanic in a cold, dark room and tell me Bryars is a

Re: [313] musical question ... minimal classical

2000-11-22 Thread J. Landau
Reich is the man though... his phase pieces, music for 18 muscians, tellihem (sp?!?!) *swoon* i've heard a lot of remixes of come out ... ken ishii How about Alvin Lucier? It's process music, not classical, but it's related to all the other artists that have been mentioned. Try I Am

Re: [313] musical question ... minimal classical

2000-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apologies for drawing this out... on 11/22/2000 6:01 PM, Sam Karmel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should check out Reich's electric counterpoint Its 12 tracks of steve vie playing guitar. Reich mixes them in a truly beautiful and creative way. Not Steve Vie. Not even Steve Vai (ugh).

Re: [313] musical question ... minimal classical

2000-11-21 Thread darw_n
didn't Frank Zippa do something in the minimal classical area?? Anyways, I don't know if its minimal per se, but I gained A LOT of influence from Debussy's etudes recordings for piano... There's one song towards the end that does this odd timing thing, very techno... darw_n create,

Re: [313] musical question ... minimal classical

2000-11-21 Thread Jorge Velez
Could anyone please point me in the direction of some kind of minimal experimnetal classical music? It would be greatly appreciated. thx. there's so many ways to go with this: Schoenberg, Reich, Glass, uh... Gavin Bryars BUT start off with Erik Satie. You can get