June 26, Steve Reich. Category:Steve Reich. Categories : compositions Compositions by Steve Reich Process music pieces. Cannot annotate a non-flat selection. Make sure your selection starts and ends within the same node.
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At the beginning of It's Gonna Rain, the preacher, Brother Walter, tells the story of Noah and how he was mocked for his folly in preaching and building the ark.
After a brief pause, the work continues with several repetitions of the title phrase. This snippet then fragments into single words or parts of words. As a word or syllable is repeated again and again, its meaning yields completely to its abstract musical sound. The sound moves back and forth across the stereophonic spectrum, the left and right channels sliding smoothly in and out of unison.
Soon, the listener's ear begins to fashion musical gestures out of the jumbled sounds as speech melts into pure aural texture. Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 13, London: Guinness World Records. Retrieved December 2, Australian Chart Book — Illustrated ed. Ives, N. Irish Singles Chart. Top 40 Singles.
Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, in New York City) is an American composer. He is a pioneer of minimalism, although his music has increasingly deviated from a purely minimalist style. Reich's innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (examples are his early compositions, "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out"), and the use of processes to create and explore .
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