But as many as there were who did not enter into a covenant, and who did still continue to have those secret murders in their hearts, yea, as many who were found breathing out threatenings against their brethren were condemned and punished according to the law. And thus they did put an end to all those wicked, and secret, and abominable combinations, in the which there was so much wickedness, and so many murders committed. - 3 NEPHI 5:5-6, The Book of Mormon
Adam Kump - and nobody expected Secretariat to run the Belmont in an etherial 2:24, either.... ‘and also the reins...’ th-cam.com/video/CMIfR6LfGZ0/w-d-xo.html
On a happier mote, perhaps ... don’t think the dusting of Steve Reich and electronica didn’t trickle into disco, notably the recording of this track, laid down in Salt Lake City with a Mormon genius behind it I mean, I can hear the connection .. so why can’t everyone? 💙 Donna Summer, “I Feel Love” th-cam.com/video/Nm-ISatLDG0/w-d-xo.html Disco Reign Disco Reign Disco Reign.....
When I was a DJ we used to fire this up around midnight, on the FM dial... And we would sit and watch the phone lines light up 1 2 3 4... It's a brilliant piece of music and how important it is to pretty much all sampling culture since then... But it's still riles people up even to this day LOL... I don't think we ever played all 17 minutes all the way through on air... We used to do Sister Ray all the time too LOL...
It’s Gonna Rain … a very heavy piece written in the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the voice is a spectacularly moving, intense voice about the end of the world. - Steve Reich
It's amazing what people do to break the confines of what is music. A phrase morphed into a rhythm. The words detached and imploded the further loop went. We need sound experiments like this to progress forward in the art of making music.
@@otmq my parents didnt pay for it, I went to public school and My highschool was the closest thing to a preforming arts school you could be without officially being one so they offered piano classes and I took them for 4 years.
In the mid-70's (during my studies in Analog Synthesis at USC), not having sophisticated digital systems, I was told that Reich composed this entire thing with tape manipulation. That is, the cutting-up and re-splicing of thousands of pieces of magnetic recording tape.
It's actually just the same piece of tape looped on two separate tape machines. Because of minute differences in the speed of the machines and the uneven length of the splice, the two loops drift apart little by little. Reich did do collages with hundreds of pieces of tape, but not the this one.
I was introduced to this piece when I was a junior in college, majoring in violin performance. Amazing professor Zack Browning (U of I, Champaign) played this piece for our class at the highest volume possible. We met in a basement classroom, and the windows were blacked out, the lights turned out, and we basked in this piece in pitch blackness for its entire 17 minutes. UTTERLY AMAZING. I could hear the sing-song "It's raining, it's pouring," "it's coming, it's coming," "it came, it came" and other rain-related words. There was no room in my mind to think of anything else. I've never had another experience like this in my life. Thanks, Zack!
When I went to the dentist as a kid, I got nitrous when I had a cavity. The gas made the muzak playing in the office sound really freaky, like a nightmarish mantra - unsettling but strangely catchy. It'd hard to describe. Anyway, part 2 here sounds exactly like how I remember that. Forget about psychedelia, Reich was the real drug music.
Absolutely!! Always reminded me of long, virtuosic guitar leads of the type Jimmy Paige used to do in concert. There is somehow a definite kinship between what most would say are two wholly unrelated forms of musical expression. This is truly an awesome work.
The first half part is EDM remix style before any form of EDM was out. Wow, creative for 1965...even the modulation choices were spot on like a Trance DJ in the late 90s & early 2000s. Very dance-able.
I love this piece so much. The emphaticness of the voice, as well as the subject matter, makes it feel really apocalyptic, especially that second movement. That little stutter on "GLORY TO GAW-GAWD!" is brilliant.
What's striking about Part II is that the offset looping technique enhances the meaning of what lyrics there are: as the sound falls further out of sync, one can imagine the panic of those outside the Ark's sealed door as the rain falls, the waters rise, and they are all drowned in cacophony.
It's gonna bleed darkness from alien wounds. The darkness will grow with invisible speed, covering the world in unimaginable terror for a moment so brief nobody will really be sure if it even happened. Then, the darkness will recede into itself at the same impossible speed until it coagulates into a ball the size of a walnut with the consistency of styrofoam. Then the ball will remain dormant until the moment when a raindrop hits Earth for the very last time.
This is the audio version of a modern art museum where you either get what the artist was trying to do with the piece, or you think it's a worthless piece of shit. There's no middle ground here. I re-visit this once or twice a year. That's enough for me.
It's an interesting combination to listen to it and read the comments trying to make some sense out of it at the same time, because just the act of reading the comments is time consuming and it's almost like... live commentary on what is going on with the piece, which helps to withstand it and make sense of it to a large extent. I wish I could say that there is no order to this sound, because it's so unpleasant to listen to, but truth is there is order to it, and hearing the same simple phrase modified in so many ways is kind of mind-blowing.
listening to It's Gonna Rain pt. 2 is one of the most HIDEOUS and INSANE music listening experiences I've ever encountered. This thing is disturbing as F^*k. It's hard to get through it. I'm not saying it's not one hell-of-a music composition. Through ceaseless prayer-like repetition, it gradually draws out of the initially presented sample of dialogue (through electronic studio manipulation) a looping together of sounds that eventually begin to sound like cries of human torture, which then fan out to be juxtaposed with echoing whirlpools of meditative mantra-like chanting. Picture dissolving your being in ambient 3-D colorful waves of energy matter imagery on acid. This is vintage anaolg vinyl electronica.
i can't put it better myself man, it certainly is hideous and insane, but it is all so absolutely beautiful amazing and powerful and intense and it just creates this amazing feeling while you listen to it. it really does what art is supposed to do, and create a feeling inside of the self. rhythms and tonal patterns and harmonies and melodies all seem to evolve from the canvas of just one thing repeated over and over upon itself.it most certainly is hideous, it most certainly is insidious, it most certainly is infernal but good GOD is it not absolutely exhilarating and fascinating to listen to. a+ for your interpretation of it tho man. also cocks.
Thank you so very much Mea Mors. This has been a favorite and thing of hioghest value for me. Have not been able to listen to it since it's loss (along with about 35,000 other albums) at the hands of thieves. My life has been made better by reacquiring this gem.
when I find the single, monogamous, S/B-man, L/B-woman, who agrees that Reich's "Its Gonna Rain" is brilliant but still likes dance music, I'll know I have met my soul mate.
Yes, i'm bored ...inspired by an acid-trip no doubt... Somethings that can be heard in "It's Gonna Rain": Italy, It's Orleans, It's alright, It's Ali, It's Norene, Miss Norene, It's so lame, disco-land, This 'ol life, etc. :)
Fifty and more years ago, Reich achieved this with enough R2R to loop around Mars and the patience of Job to make his dream real! He didn't even have an app!
I wrote a tumblr post about the significance of this song, as well as its ever-increasing relevance to modern music. I also speak a little bit about why I think this is the saddest/darkest song ever written. I'm having one of those days where I'm playing this on repeat summerlungsmusic.tumblr.com/post/89929703901/steve-reich-its-gonna-rain
My personal first exposure to anything like this were the tracks "Time Becomes" and "Input Out" on the album Orbital (Brown)... I remember clearly thinking both tracks were utter nonsense at first, but as my taste in music evolved, I came to dig what those tracks were doing... Fast forward around 15 years afterwards, and I was introduced to "It's Gonna Rain", and I absolutely loved it... and it made me appreciate more experimental electronic music even more... This then led me down the Subotnick/GRM/Stockhausen etc. rabbit hole that I still find myself attracted to from time to time.
For anyone who says that this is is not music are technically wrong. What Reich has captured, consciously or not, mainly in part 1, a major 3rd interval in the mans voice. It's music in it's natural form. In part 2, if you ring out the note E, as much as the intonation of the mans voice changes and isn't right on the note, you will hear the note E for a split second. You can hear it at the beginning of the loop.
I'm sure this is a technically awesome piece but this is exactly what it sounds like in my head when I'm experiencing sensory overload and I start losing the ability to properly process language
@@shubham6288 as somebody with autism, that might be what theyre talking about. people with autism are extremely susceptible to sensory overload, and the world becomes extremely difficult to understand when that happens, especially when its severe. its a really scary experience, and they were absolutely right in saying that this is a pretty good example of what its like, although less intense.
I'm listening to this because I read Eno was inspired by this piece prior to recording (No Pussyfooting). I'm floored some of my own audio art is inspired by this, without having ever heard it. Cosmic indeed!
According to Wikipedia, he made the piece by playing different tapes of the same recording on different machines which, due to the imprecision of analogue tape technology, meant that one tape played just a tiny bit faster than the other. Thus the recordings slowly fall out of sync but eventually come back together at the end of the first half of the piece. Interesting how Reich would use that same basic idea in Clapping Music years later.
Angus Deese You could also try "Electric Counterpoint", to get a sense of Reich's ideas about interlocking rhythms and gradual rhythmic transposition. The interest to be found here is the way the affect becomes completely different just by moving the location of the beginning and end of the repetition. The treatment really brings out the artifacts in the recording, such as the strange pitched echo on the word "gonna", and the "gaggy", drum-like sound of the "It's", when the sounds are the sole focal materal, and represent at times the beginning, middle, or end of the cycle.
This piece like his other, "come out" have dealt with certain phasing techniques which were later used in his acoustic compositions like piano phase and violin phase, all of these pieces so light in his album from 1964, this was a time of research in many respects for the art of music and his techniques were later to inspire the art if sampling grouos like nin and the rest were well known for... The moog synth was emerging at that time snd the whole world of music was bombard by tge need to figure out and use new languages and new tools unknown or confronted before. Much of this was part of tge change in modern calture, the kiss if death from ww2 and other maladies... The essence of this art to be at the same time an art of music, a mirror for thet time and culture through the point if view if humanism and the desire to cope new tools and new musical languages - this being so much speed up from the end of Mahler's - have put this period of art music to be one of the most fascinating era in music history and this composer was certainly one of the leaders to sculpture it. :-)
My weather app told me to expect rain in 0 minutes, and I had to come listen to this. Mr. Reich was _way_ ahead of his time.
It's a phase, mom
nice.
Fantastic.
That made me laugh. A lot.
IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM
hahahahahahahaha perfect. thank you
this song reminds me of trying to open a combination lock by systemically trying every single combination
This is a better description of process music than you probably intended
But as many as there were who did not enter into a covenant, and who did still continue to have those secret murders in their hearts, yea, as many who were found breathing out threatenings against their brethren were condemned and punished according to the law.
And thus they did put an end to all those wicked, and secret, and abominable combinations, in the which there was so much wickedness, and so many murders committed.
- 3 NEPHI 5:5-6, The Book of Mormon
@@davidmehnert6206 I was not expecting to see anyone reference the Book of Mormon in this type of forum of experimental music, nice.
Adam Kump - and nobody expected Secretariat to run the Belmont in an etherial 2:24, either.... ‘and also the reins...’
th-cam.com/video/CMIfR6LfGZ0/w-d-xo.html
On a happier mote, perhaps ... don’t think the dusting of Steve Reich and electronica didn’t trickle into disco, notably the recording of this track, laid down in Salt Lake City with a Mormon genius behind it
I mean, I can hear the connection .. so why can’t everyone? 💙
Donna Summer, “I Feel Love”
th-cam.com/video/Nm-ISatLDG0/w-d-xo.html
Disco Reign
Disco Reign
Disco Reign.....
When I was a DJ we used to fire this up around midnight, on the FM dial... And we would sit and watch the phone lines light up 1 2 3 4... It's a brilliant piece of music and how important it is to pretty much all sampling culture since then... But it's still riles people up even to this day LOL... I don't think we ever played all 17 minutes all the way through on air... We used to do Sister Ray all the time too LOL...
I would love to hear a live choir imitate this as much as possible....that would be dope
Great idea. Damn.
;)
A karaoke version for a duet too
yes that would be so very poggers and cool i love mr reich but maybe he shouldn't call himself that (hitler)
I woudl love if they make d the choir wsings it in the city in places! WHERE NO ONE SUSPECTES. (edit: True.)
"OK Google, what's the weather going to be like today?"
It’s Gonna Rain … a very heavy piece written in the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the voice is a spectacularly moving, intense voice about the end of the world.
- Steve Reich
It's amazing what people do to break the confines of what is music. A phrase morphed into a rhythm. The words detached and imploded the further loop went. We need sound experiments like this to progress forward in the art of making music.
I agree
on it
This guy pasted loops of magnetic tape to inspire so much sampled music.
My Lord my Lord
shut up nerd
My piano teacher years ago used to make us listen to this whole song every week. Im Convinced she was trolling us before trolling was a thing.
I would have figured out the pitches and played it back for her! Peace.
That’s mental abuse.
She was also stealing your parents money and time.
@@otmq my parents didnt pay for it, I went to public school and My highschool was the closest thing to a preforming arts school you could be without officially being one so they offered piano classes and I took them for 4 years.
Jesus Christ bro I only had to listen to the whole thing once in 6th grade, any lasting mental effects? Pretty sure it exacerbated my ADHD tenfold
I can't believe I just listened to that whole thing. All I can say is, I ain't going' nowhere without my umbrella...
😂
In the mid-70's (during my studies in Analog Synthesis at USC), not having sophisticated digital systems, I was told that Reich composed this entire thing with tape manipulation. That is, the cutting-up and re-splicing of thousands of pieces of magnetic recording tape.
It's actually just the same piece of tape looped on two separate tape machines. Because of minute differences in the speed of the machines and the uneven length of the splice, the two loops drift apart little by little. Reich did do collages with hundreds of pieces of tape, but not the this one.
He wasn't the only one doing that at the time. There was also the amazing Delia Derbyshire.
I loved the part where he said "It's gon rain, It's gon rain, It's gon rain, It's gon rain"
I was introduced to this piece when I was a junior in college, majoring in violin performance. Amazing professor Zack Browning (U of I, Champaign) played this piece for our class at the highest volume possible. We met in a basement classroom, and the windows were blacked out, the lights turned out, and we basked in this piece in pitch blackness for its entire 17 minutes. UTTERLY AMAZING. I could hear the sing-song "It's raining, it's pouring," "it's coming, it's coming," "it came, it came" and other rain-related words. There was no room in my mind to think of anything else. I've never had another experience like this in my life. Thanks, Zack!
Wasn't the repetativness at the start annoying?
It's the same sound again and again (sorta xD)
Dr. Browning was one of my favorite professors!! Wonderful wonderful man
any time someone tells me they think it's going to rain, my head starts playing this song
same
"Song"
"Looks like rain!" *Face goes blank for 17 minutes*
Lol now I will forever 😂
Disco paint?
sounds like my printer
this is literally how my printer sounds like
Hahaha, these comments give me great joy
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Check out symphony for dot matrix #1 it's really good
He sampled a printer, then processed in Ableton Live... 🤣🤣🤣
DISCO
DISCO
DISCO
DISCO
LEAN
LEAN
LEAN
It does sound he's repeating "Disco rain" at one point!
When I went to the dentist as a kid, I got nitrous when I had a cavity. The gas made the muzak playing in the office sound really freaky, like a nightmarish mantra - unsettling but strangely catchy. It'd hard to describe. Anyway, part 2 here sounds exactly like how I remember that. Forget about psychedelia, Reich was the real drug music.
Hardest Juke/Footwork track yet
that would be a sick mash up!
Steve Reich either makes the most beautiful melodies or the most insane stuff in the music industry, that's why I love his compositions.
The 2nd movement is so metal.
Absolutely!! Always reminded me of long, virtuosic guitar leads of the type Jimmy Paige used to do in concert. There is somehow a definite kinship between what most would say are two wholly unrelated forms of musical expression. This is truly an awesome work.
Drinking game: Alwys drink a shot when he says "It's gonna rain"
*dies of alcohol poisoning after the 113th shot
M'i Dnurk
Dead
M’i knurd
You got my attention since "drinking".
The first half part is EDM remix style before any form of EDM was out. Wow, creative for 1965...even the modulation choices were spot on like a Trance DJ in the late 90s & early 2000s. Very dance-able.
I love this piece so much. The emphaticness of the voice, as well as the subject matter, makes it feel really apocalyptic, especially that second movement. That little stutter on "GLORY TO GAW-GAWD!" is brilliant.
he sounds terrified
What's striking about Part II is that the offset looping technique enhances the meaning of what lyrics there are: as the sound falls further out of sync, one can imagine the panic of those outside the Ark's sealed door as the rain falls, the waters rise, and they are all drowned in cacophony.
I don't know why, but I enjoyed this more than I should have
.....the mind "off Leash"....thanks Steve Reich, taught us all how to "Listen" ....differently.
Sorry, I didn't quite catch that. What's it gonna do?
+Evdog Music Would you just open the door?
It's gonna bleed darkness from alien wounds. The darkness will grow with invisible speed, covering the world in unimaginable terror for a moment so brief nobody will really be sure if it even happened. Then, the darkness will recede into itself at the same impossible speed until it coagulates into a ball the size of a walnut with the consistency of styrofoam. Then the ball will remain dormant until the moment when a raindrop hits Earth for the very last time.
but SHO 'NUFF!
It's gonna rain
I thought he said snakes on a plane.
I love the simplicity of the idea. I always have. This music separates your best friends from the rest of the world.
This is now officially my favorite song of all time.
Listen to Sematary
6:40
Rain is gone
Okay, actually you can hear that almost the whole time while it's looping.
I've loved this piece since 1973 when I first heard it.
"The skin came off their hands"
That would have made an awesome 5-minute phase loop right there.
This is the audio version of a modern art museum where you either get what the artist was trying to do with the piece, or you think it's a worthless piece of shit. There's no middle ground here.
I re-visit this once or twice a year. That's enough for me.
If you get used to this it's just brilliant.
1965
my mom was not even born
this is so sick
"SIX DOLLARS SIX DOLLARS SIX DOLLARS SIX DOLLARS SIX DOLLARS"
PISCOLA PISCOLA PISCOLA
Cysco Cysco Cysco
Tyler Chapin HIS DOG HIS DOG HIS DOG
Eh darling Eh darling Eh darling
"It's gonna It's gonna It's gonna" :^)
All weather forecasts should be presented like this, because this is how weather actually is
THANK YOU! I heard this 25 years ago and haven't heard it since. It's eve better than I remembered!
I was skeptical at first, but this is fascinating ! The stereo effect in the second track is mesmerizing
It's an interesting combination to listen to it and read the comments trying to make some sense out of it at the same time, because just the act of reading the comments is time consuming and it's almost like... live commentary on what is going on with the piece, which helps to withstand it and make sense of it to a large extent. I wish I could say that there is no order to this sound, because it's so unpleasant to listen to, but truth is there is order to it, and hearing the same simple phrase modified in so many ways is kind of mind-blowing.
^this
Yep, nailed it, live commentary written in the past about a track written in the previous century
listening to It's Gonna Rain pt. 2 is one of the most HIDEOUS and INSANE music listening experiences I've ever encountered. This thing is disturbing as F^*k. It's hard to get through it. I'm not saying it's not one hell-of-a music composition. Through ceaseless prayer-like repetition, it gradually draws out of the initially presented sample of dialogue (through electronic studio manipulation) a looping together of sounds that eventually begin to sound like cries of human torture, which then fan out to be juxtaposed with echoing whirlpools of meditative mantra-like chanting.
Picture dissolving your being in ambient 3-D colorful waves of energy matter imagery on acid. This is vintage anaolg vinyl electronica.
i can't put it better myself man, it certainly is hideous and insane, but it is all so absolutely beautiful amazing and powerful and intense and it just creates this amazing feeling while you listen to it. it really does what art is supposed to do, and create a feeling inside of the self. rhythms and tonal patterns and harmonies and melodies all seem to evolve from the canvas of just one thing repeated over and over upon itself.it most certainly is hideous, it most certainly is insidious, it most certainly is infernal but good GOD is it not absolutely exhilarating and fascinating to listen to. a+ for your interpretation of it tho man. also cocks.
I was looking for some quality comment than I found. Thank you
This was way better than I expected. Súper well mixed
Thank you so very much Mea Mors. This has been a favorite and thing of hioghest value for me. Have not been able to listen to it since it's loss (along with about 35,000 other albums) at the hands of thieves. My life has been made better by reacquiring this gem.
And now, here's Ollie Williams with the Black-U-Weather Forecast. Ollie?
+CapriceBozza80 IT'S RAININ SIDEWAYS!
HA! You caught that one too. Cosmic.
1:30
When u want to get Elaine's attention
IM DYING
Hooray hooray hooray hooray, a ray, a ray, a ray
(The first few minutes)
Nobody:
When Source games freeze:
node graph rebuilding...
Lyrics: "it's gonna rain, history, Histo.. RAY! This got a weight, Ray Ray Ray, grey, grey, grey, Hitler Hitler"
Underrated comment
knock it off Naim
One of the most important pieces in the history of music
this is awesome audio art!
listen with your eyes closed
I danced, laughed and cried. Part 2 blew my brain.
Wow. It's gonna rain!
when I find the single, monogamous, S/B-man, L/B-woman, who agrees that Reich's "Its Gonna Rain" is brilliant but still likes dance music, I'll know I have met my soul mate.
start the two videos together: th-cam.com/video/rC0iX_JvYaE/w-d-xo.html
Yes, i'm bored ...inspired by an acid-trip no doubt...
Somethings that can be heard in "It's Gonna Rain":
Italy, It's Orleans, It's alright, It's Ali, It's Norene, Miss Norene, It's so lame, disco-land, This 'ol life, etc. :)
Stephen P. Shaw "ketamine"
interesting how it sounds exactly the same when you focus on each of your mentioned examples... this 'ol life being def my favourite :)
starblade
It don’t mean, its all me
Fifty and more years ago, Reich achieved this with enough R2R to loop around Mars and the patience of Job to make his dream real! He didn't even have an app!
So. Much. Tape.
Wow, Steve Reich invented TH-cam poop all the way back.
heh
quality comment
I now need a phasing version of YOU'RE THE MAN NOW, DOG.
don't call it poop :(
@@Sk8rboy420 It's ok, it's YTP so it's the good kind of poop. :)
I love how after enough time you really do hear the music haha
Thank you very much for making this piece available. My record was "lost" years ago
I wrote a tumblr post about the significance of this song, as well as its ever-increasing relevance to modern music. I also speak a little bit about why I think this is the saddest/darkest song ever written. I'm having one of those days where I'm playing this on repeat summerlungsmusic.tumblr.com/post/89929703901/steve-reich-its-gonna-rain
life changing music. truly a masterpiece !
SO AMAZING, :-)
SO ahead of his time.
Brilliant... It's simply brilliant.
Just been listening to a podcast with Brian Eno and Matty Healy. They talked about this song so hearing it for the first time is so mesmerizing.
Excruciatingly brilliant.
I don't know if I feel cleansed or corrupted.
Suprisingly, I simply enjoy this.
Listening to this right as a thunderstorm starts. ⚡️☔️
thank you Steve Reich
My personal first exposure to anything like this were the tracks "Time Becomes" and "Input Out" on the album Orbital (Brown)... I remember clearly thinking both tracks were utter nonsense at first, but as my taste in music evolved, I came to dig what those tracks were doing...
Fast forward around 15 years afterwards, and I was introduced to "It's Gonna Rain", and I absolutely loved it... and it made me appreciate more experimental electronic music even more...
This then led me down the Subotnick/GRM/Stockhausen etc. rabbit hole that I still find myself attracted to from time to time.
My drum instructor told me about this, I'm now using listening this to procrastinating drumming.
Brian Eno brought me here.
Long Now Foundation?
i listened to this side by side with "Drumming: 1. Part 1" on spotify. They totally compliment one another. this is awesome stuff.
Can't wait to request this to the DJ at the family reunion party!
I hear it's a hit at weddings!
For anyone who says that this is is not music are technically wrong. What Reich has captured, consciously or not, mainly in part 1, a major 3rd interval in the mans voice. It's music in it's natural form. In part 2, if you ring out the note E, as much as the intonation of the mans voice changes and isn't right on the note, you will hear the note E for a split second. You can hear it at the beginning of the loop.
Strangely relaxing from about 15:30 onward. Almost like listening to sweeping waves or listening to the rain.
SAME FOR MEEEE
It's Darlene
His Dolly
Fizz-go Ray
I'm sure this is a technically awesome piece but this is exactly what it sounds like in my head when I'm experiencing sensory overload and I start losing the ability to properly process language
סבבה קינג
That's interesting to hear, is this a recognized condition?
@@shubham6288 Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
@@shubham6288 autism
@@shubham6288 as somebody with autism, that might be what theyre talking about. people with autism are extremely susceptible to sensory overload, and the world becomes extremely difficult to understand when that happens, especially when its severe. its a really scary experience, and they were absolutely right in saying that this is a pretty good example of what its like, although less intense.
1. It's gonna rain
2. It's Bahrain
3. It's gonna bleed
4. They're starving
5. It's got a vein
Its alright
Snakes on a plane
I’ve listen to this yesterday at first I thought it was a little bit tedious but soon it’s starting to grow on me
Amazing! This was composed when radio recorder was first invented. What an innovation it would be at that time!
I love the accidental harmony that Reich found in the background while the guy was sayin’ the phrase. Peace.
Brian Eno said this song changed his life and turn on a lasting creative switch.
_Our music teacher made us listen to this in school..._
At least you didn’t have to listen to the entirety of 4’33”
my teacher played it that how I found this
Your music teacher sounds awesome! You might not appreciate it, but keep their ideas in your thought-they will come in handy later.
This is my favorite gospel music song.
#Whydoesmyheartfeelsobad.
I'm listening to this because I read Eno was inspired by this piece prior to recording (No Pussyfooting). I'm floored some of my own audio art is inspired by this, without having ever heard it. Cosmic indeed!
I think we may have read the same book. I’m fascinated by these techniques and try to incorporate them into my modular music
Parts of this slap, I’m not gonna lie. 👏 🙌
Flat out amazing :-)
My professor brought me here , thanks Lanning !!
It's not that this is just so frickin' amazing. It's also that this this the funniest comment thread on Utoob.
The rare comment thread I actually enjoy reading, because it's about the piece, and enjoying or puzzling over it.
This is like a prayer for rain from distant future
I like how it sounds like other things. at one point it sounds like "it's called rape" over and over
According to Wikipedia, he made the piece by playing different tapes of the same recording on different machines which, due to the imprecision of analogue tape technology, meant that one tape played just a tiny bit faster than the other. Thus the recordings slowly fall out of sync but eventually come back together at the end of the first half of the piece.
Interesting how Reich would use that same basic idea in Clapping Music years later.
I must not be intelligent enough to enjoy this.
Scott johnson Thank you for saying this.it's a great bit of guidance for Angus. The Music for 18 Musicians is one of my favourites.
Angus Deese You're not supposed to enjoy it.
Angus Deese
You could also try "Electric Counterpoint", to get a sense of Reich's ideas about interlocking rhythms and gradual rhythmic transposition. The interest to be found here is the way the affect becomes completely different just by moving the location of the beginning and end of the repetition. The treatment really brings out the artifacts in the recording, such as the strange pitched echo on the word "gonna", and the "gaggy", drum-like sound of the "It's", when the sounds are the sole focal materal, and represent at times the beginning, middle, or end of the cycle.
Angus Deese It's more of an experiment....
Angus Deese You're not meant to dance to it if that's what you mean
perfect music to dissociate to
Still better and way ahead of many modern bands/"artists".
I think the effects are more apparent if you listen to it with head phones
Amazing transformation
BRILLIANT
IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES
Ich habe das Gefühl dass es regnen wird
Ich brauche die lyrics von dem Lied
This piece like his other, "come out" have dealt with certain phasing techniques which were later used in his acoustic compositions like piano phase and violin phase, all of these pieces so light in his album from 1964, this was a time of research in many respects for the art of music and his techniques were later to inspire the art if sampling grouos like nin and the rest were well known for... The moog synth was emerging at that time snd the whole world of music was bombard by tge need to figure out and use new languages and new tools unknown or confronted before. Much of this was part of tge change in modern calture, the kiss if death from ww2 and other maladies... The essence of this art to be at the same time an art of music, a mirror for thet time and culture through the point if view if humanism and the desire to cope new tools and new musical languages - this being so much speed up from the end of Mahler's - have put this period of art music to be one of the most fascinating era in music history and this composer was certainly one of the leaders to sculpture it.
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