Music by Steve Reich with Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson, Artistic Director
Hailed as “the very model of a modern chamber music band” (New York Times), Alarm Will Sound returns to Stanford with Pulitzer-winning composer Steve Reich and an electrifying all-Reich program headlined by the U.S. premiere of Radio Rewrite. Reich began work on Radio Rewrite. after hearing Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood performing Reich’s Electric Counterpoint. Mutual admiration, coupled with the music of Radiohead, fueled Reich’s inspiration for this new work.
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Following in the footsteps of La Monte Young and Terry Riley, composer Steve Reich is widely considered the third major pioneer of minimalism; credited as the innovator behind phasing -- a process whereby two tape loops lined up in unison gradually move out of phase with each other, ultimately coming back into sync -- his early experiments in tape manipulation also anticipated the emergence of hip-hop sampling by well over a decade....
Alarm Will Sound include band members 'John Pickford Richards', 'John Orfe', 'Payton MacDonald', 'Courtney Orlando', 'Evan Hause', 'Jonathan Newman', 'Caleb Burhans', 'Jessica Johnson', 'Ken Thomson' and 'Stefan Freund'.
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