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..Javanese music and other repitition
Andre (west coast) said ...Javanese gamelan ensemble last spring here at
school.
>(Apparently the new gamelan which was obtained for the Javanese ensemble
>at the beginning of last year is the finest one in North America!)
>
>There are some definite connections between that sort of music and
>looping, I'd say, particularly since most of the Javanese music I played
>consisted of what could be described in Western terms as one or two
>(occasionally more) eight or sixteen-bar cycles repeated for a looooong
>time.
Andre (East c.) - this made me think of a favorite composer of mine - Steve
Reich - he's often just lumped in with Philip Glass as a 'minimalist', but
i
think his work is also very textural and 'morphing' like gamelan can be..
he
also incorporates a lot of stuff influenced by Afrikan drum patterns, which
can be VERY loop-y
the new Steve Reich album is great - it actually combines a lot of the
media
he's worked with - voices, strings, tuned percussion, keyboard-triggered
samples, layered time shifts. check it out
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