Steve Reich: 2x5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ม.ค. 2013
- Robert Black, Bass Guitar | Vicky Chow, Piano | David Cossin - Drums | Derek Johnson, Guitar | Mark Stewart - Guitar | Evan Ziporyn - Piano
The Bang on a Can All-Stars perform Steve Reich's complete 2x5. - เพลง
When I met Steve Reich, he had just finished recording this piece. He set up two speakers, sat down in front of us,(not four feet away) and listened to the entirety of the piece with all of us. It was one of the most amazing and beautiful moments of my life. Afterwards, Steve spent hours discussing all he had done and answered all of our questions. I love Steve Reich not only for his contribution to the music world as a creator, but also because is the true definition of an artist - which to me means not just one who inspires but one who also teaches. Thank you, my teacher, Steve Reich.
right on man thanks for sharing
That's a wonderful sentiment
John Laws he was down the pub when I met him- he was wankered
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Yes I had a similar excellent experience with Rupert Sheldrake. Reich always sounds like a great guy on interviews. I appreciate you sharing your story.
Every Steve Reich piece is my favorite.
This is a brain massage.
More like brain salad surgery.
This piece was premiered in my hometown of Manchester (UK) in the velodrome on July 2nd 2009. I got permission (kind of) to get my boy, Galen Reich (16), out of high school early and we travelled up for four hours by train from where I live now in West Norfolk up to Manchester. I've been a lifelong fan of Steve Reich and also Kraftwerk (main act), so it was a dream ticket. It was amazing when the Olympic cycling team of GB did tours of the velodrome to "Tour de France" but for me, the most amazing experience was hearing 2x5. Unforgettable.
No doubt about it - this is Reich's most rhythmic piece ever !! The musicians are enthusiastic yet concentrated beyond everyhing, and they really enjoy playing. I especially admire this ensemble and their way of interpreting Steve Reich. On the whole, it's amazing how manifold Reich's music is, over the years he has produced such a variety within his unique style. To me, he is the greatest composer living, a truly innovative artist !
Yeah, he put a proper drumkit in, back to his John Coltrane influence. Totally brilliant. X
I can't show this to my friends because they haven't unlocked the abilitie to hear music with the Soul
Steve Reich made really excellent stuff, so props to him for influencing countless of people. He should be one of the people that should be considered for induction into the Rock n Roll Hall of fame as a receipt for Ahmet Ertugun Awards or Early Influence
I listen to this whenever I go for a run. The tempo is perfect for timing your footfalls with and when the III. section starts at 13:28 it always makes me pick up the pace.
This is the greatest music I have ever heard. But of course, I will say the same about the next Reich piece I stumble upon.
Thanks Steve, you make music better, you make life better.
Amen to that.
It's scored for either 2 quintets (2x 1 piano, 2 guitars, 1 bass, 1 drum) playing live or 1 quintet playing with a recording. This group has 2 pianos, 2 guitars, 1 drum, and 1 bass, so it would appear they are playing along with a tape that has the other drum, 2 guitars, and bass.
Listen this amazing concert with my big brother Pedro Canhão under the blankets
MINDBLOWING! WHAT A CHALLENGE BOTH TO PLAY AND LISTEN TO IT !
A heroic and moving performance of 2X5, Love Bang on A Can!
god this is so beautiful
and so are ---
I'm addicted to this composition, just can't stop listening.
I would love to see Bang on a Can double billed with King Crimson.
If I become a billionaire in the near future I will make this happen.
I was honestly thinking the same thing! This has to happen!!
Yea, when I first heard songs from king crimson in the 80s like the waiting man, it really made me think of steve reich so great
Wow you read my mind , a night of Crimson and A Can....cool
Reich wrote a piece for Pat Metheny called "Electric Counterpoint" and it's about as Frippy as Reich gets.
Viewing and hearing this never fails to delight. I'm thinking...if there was a fMRI was done on people listening to this, they heads would be lighting up like some kind of nebula or something. Not that brain and mind are equivalent of course, just a tracing like a cloud chamber or something like that. (Though tangentially, I have at times had concern that my brain's reward center might blow like a fuse or something. The ads at mid-point might have actually come just in time.) Dang, I love this piece, and this performance. Thank you!
when you say you jam with friends people would think you're playing iron maiden in your garage but actual cool people come up with stuff like this.
I love the contrast between the timbre of the piano and the whammy guitars, there's just something that really draws my ear towards that and I think it really keeps this piece interesting throughout the whole performance, apart from the rhythmic variations of course
An interesting choice of puttering drum rhythms for this music. I have loved Steve Reich's music ever since Music for 18 Musicians, a masterpiece, I think.
once led an entire cycling class with accompanying video performance to 18 Musicians. highlight of my 13 years doing it.
The dissonance of the two guitars at 3:36 is sublime
Ben Gruver wow
thanks for pointing it out
I totale agree!
Stunning composer, equally stunning musicians.
So fucking complex so fucking beautiful, Steve Reich do not ceases to mesmerize me. This is Amazing. completely beautiful!!!!
what is the complexity?
2x5
manovoid La complexité c' est que tout est écrit et si tu te plantes d' une note , tu fous tous les autres musiciens en l' air ! Musique mathématique en quelque sorte .. Ecoutez "six pianos" du même compositeur et vous comprendrez !
🍀J'aime j'aime j'aime trop trop trop ... la musique de Steve Reich et cette belle interprétation, thanks thanks thanks... ... ....
🍀 J'adore cette musique et pratiquement toutes celles de Steve Reich, ce compositeur de génie, elles me fascinent dès les premiers instants et il suffit de voir les interprètes et le public pour bien ressentir ce moment tellement magique, merci.
You guys, mind blowing performance! 🤟 🤟
Usual brilliant Steve Reich and this is a great piece. Progressive rock exponents would be proud of this. Takes you on a journey. Beautiful rhythms.
loved the sound of left guitar
great performance
nice to hear Robert Black, we recorded Cage "Ryoanji" together 20 years ago.
best Iven
Spectacular, one of Reich's best to my ears. And what great performers. Thank you!
love the tension of disharmonious cluster @3:37
Yes! That's one of my favorite parts.
Simply BEAUTIFUL!!!!
EXCELLENT! 💝 Thank you!
how can someone have taken the time to set up and record this perofrmance of incredible complex music and then leave off the applause and audience reaction at the end? thats one cold heart out there
i love this so much i could cry x
Great! I just spent 20 minutes in another universe. Thank you for posting this!
~ Thank you for this blessing of sacred sound ~
Wonderful sound! Hypnotic and magnetic
Utterly stunning....... absolute masterpiece......tonal shifts absolute joy
Wonderful music !!
I came here from the Wikipedia entry about the Bass Guitar, which references 2x5 as having 2 bass parts. I had to hear it for myself. Listening now, 6:40 in, this is amazing.
I'm picking up a King Crimson vibe, but there's so much more. My inner prog guy really likes this piece.
Looking forward to hearing more of Reich's work.
How is the Reich discovery going?
Love this music! Old favorite from Reich!
just awesome.
what a great source of inspriation. I've listened it 2 times a day in the last three years ....
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE IN SUCH A BEAUTIFUL MUSIC.
A wonderful composition! All the elements of progressive rock that I love.
Excellent !!!
After seeing this performance I realized, HOW much i missed, when did not applied to your Moscow master-classes...
Hopefully you will visit us again.. =)
Wonderful!
echoing amazement and appreciation for Steve Reich as well as BOAC. Very pleased and should have known Mark Stewart would be in this project. I've not known of this Reich work, pleased to learn that. Kudos all!
really good stuff!
amazing!
It gives me a thrill.
16:36 is a lovely moment between the guitar players!
Love it!
Mesmerizing
WONDERFUL!!!!!
Very Magma, but without singing and drama. So delighted thu.
I love this
magnifique!
electric guitarists reading! awesome!
On peut évoquer aussi Univers Zéro.Et que dire d' " Electric Counterpoint "où il frôle le Disco et la musique d'aéroports sans nous ennuyer 1 seconde!!!.C'est un grand musicien!
Wow, from Québec, Canada
So great! I was always struggling with the drums & where the 2nd drum comes from. Until i read they must have been re-recorded before
awesome
Good and smiling rhythm, good and light sound from the electric guitar.
NEKO
Bravissimo!
fantastici!
Meraviglioso! Grandissimo Steve e bravissimi gli interpreti!
Wonderful! Great Steve and talented performers!
I like this piece and " Guitar Phase" more than any other pieces by Steve Reich.
This is crazy good. My eyes get all wet!
This is absolute wonderful - absorbing and engaging! Anyone finding this musically empty is best advised to stop investigating this music and concentrate on learning all the words to their Bon Jovi albums, because Steve Reich is not for everyone, and thank God for that! Grear performance of a very challenging piece! =:^)
megistondimension - Does Steve Reich also insult people who listen to Bon Jovi? :)
funny that people find it very magma, whitch is great on the bit because Christian wander but for the guitar work you could have a look at Robert Fripp, Brian Eno and some others, i'm sure you wil appreciate those as wel.
great
That was the rockin' out band doing the rockin' out piece of music I've been waiting 64 years to hear.
Insane
Makes me want to start a band
i like mathrock since many years!! ..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prachtig stuk!
聴いていて心地よい作品！
Yes " Arne Berg " , very Magma ! the same syncope , repetitive , incantative music !
I'm also a MAGMA " fan " of the early years ... the time of long , violent , lyric and hypnotic melodies ... Steve Reich is unique in the minimalist music ...
+10!!! eXCELENTE
Feels like dancing. Very unusual for Reich. I also like "Bang on a Can's" version of "Eight Lines" and "Variations".
Anyone who can play this is super human.
professional musician ≠ superhuman
I can understand though that the skill of professional musicians might be inconceivable for non-musicians, there's so many years of focus and passionate pratctice behind it.
brilliant performance. it surpasses the studio recording of it imho. has a bit more edge and aliveness to it.
You just had to be there!
Good drummer that Steve
Great individual performances here but esp super cute Vicki Chow, who seems judging from YT a kind of serial music specialist. Watch her solo thing begin around 3:57, she sits up, starts bobbing her head side to side and playing really with her elbows pointing out, kind of bouncing and flaying the keyboard. Out with classic technique at! Tosses her head with the syncopation, gets her entire body involved, magnetic presence she has, total immersion.
Pretty good and I'm very critical.
Uh!....that just hit the spot!
There's a good recording of this under Steve Reich's name by Bang on a Can.
This is pure jubilation!
If you listen to both the commercial recordings they've obviously done several takes to make sure the 2 interlocking drum parts are robotically in tempo. Doing it perfectly live playing along to the tape looks ridiculously hard.
I was trying to figure out what was going on there. This is my first time hearing this piece. As a drummer, and a fan of music like this, the backing track just sounds very non-musical and nauseating. I've heard plenty of avant-garde fringe music, but that backing track is unpleasant to listen to. A piece of music being difficult to play live isn't an excuse for butchering it live.
Don’t get me wrong, this piece is great no matter what state of mind you’re in but the first time I listened to this was on acid and I got lost in it (the good kind of lost).
If you haven't yet, you should check out "Glassworks" by Philip Glass.
@@pauldavid2196 glassworks was one of my favorite things to listen to back in high school
Mantap
FANTASTIC MUSIC!!! AMONG THE OTHERS (MINIMALISTS, MAGMA, KING CRIMSON......AND MANY
OTHERS), DO NOT FORGET TO SAY
SOMETHING ABOUT
HATFIELD AND THE NORTH,
NATIONAL HEALTH,
NIK BARTSCH....
wow :)
This is great. I guess Mike Oldfield is a fan. His early stuff has vibes like this.
Incantations is effectively Mike Oldfield does minimalism in his own inimitable style
muzyka cywilizacji kakofonia rytmu i dzięku Górecki bardziej w duchu klasycznym ale słuchamy tego minimalizmu rytmu i to muzyka XXI wieku Bliska naturze człowieka niezależnie od miejsca zamieszkania Jesteśmy Universalni !!