Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians (1978)

Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians (1978)

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians [ 2008 JAPAN ] (This is the version I heard)

  In this work, its use different musical instruments and few players to compose a simple music. I read the information in the internet, I found this musical performance have CD and live. This work is challenge the concept of music of modern people. We called it be Minimalist. Most of the beautiful and pleasant music in our concept is being part of different musical instruments, complex rhythm, note, just like the music created by Mozart. But in this case, it change the concept. it just simple note and rhythm, it based around a cycle of eleven chords. A small piece of music is based around each chord, and the piece returns to the original cycle at the end. They repeat and repeat but make a special feeling of audience. In the saying of the artist, he said he would like to explore the extension of performers resulted in a growth of psycho-acoustic effects further. In the start, it may a bit fretful and going to lose patience. But when I continuous to listen, especially it add the people sound, it change to peaceful and quiet of my brain. This music focus on the beat interval, rather than the melody itself. And this work is medium specific, although it is not interactive with people, but it give a good feeling to audience. I am also surprised that it is the music of a book which called "池袋ウエストゲートパーク "that the main character love to heard. I think it is a special music especially its name "Music for 18 Musicians ". I think it being 18 parts of sound to compose, also it is meaning to give this song to other musicians to challenge a new age of truly art of music.