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Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Parker on December 25, 2009, 11:11:41 pm
So, my brother showed this piece to me a couple weeks back, and I was completely floored. "Music For 18 Musicians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_18_Musicians)" is a 56 minute long "orchestral" song written by Steve Reich that premiered in 1976. It is one of the craziest things I have ever heard. It SOUNDS electronic, but every instrument used is an "orchestral" instrument, or a human voice. I really don't know how to introduce this song, or describe it, but everyone needs to hear it.

I uploaded it to Mediafire for you guys, here (http://www.mediafire.com/?vvzc3mmtnwj).




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Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Buttkiller on December 26, 2009, 05:56:33 am
and here it is in flac. http://lix.in/-544d4f

YOU HAVE BEEN OWNED BY BUTTKILLER!!!!!!

steve reich owns by the way. http://tinysong.com/ctp5 this is another good thing that he did but there are a lot
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: crone_lover720 on December 26, 2009, 06:24:51 am
MUSic for 18 MUSICIANS is great. real good. look into minimalism if you like. I also like his Variations a lot, on the soundtrack for CIV IV. all of his stuff is pretty much the same concept check this live performance out


or just do a youtube search for steve reich
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: crone_lover720 on December 26, 2009, 06:34:03 am
music for 18 musicians is from the 70s btw. just so everyone knows, this is not something new by some asshole thinking "smirk lets try to make something that sounds electronic/otherworldly but only with real instruments. it'll be like the beginning of animal collective's peacebone"

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Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: ATARI on December 26, 2009, 06:56:04 am
holly fuck this is absolutely fantastic
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: crone_lover720 on December 26, 2009, 07:04:18 am
maybe now you'll understand why the music we like is the best
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Buttkiller on December 26, 2009, 05:01:26 pm

!!!!!
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: crone_lover720 on December 26, 2009, 05:47:48 pm
I don't know if that's the best drumming video but it's always nice when they set up the drums like that so you get the corresponding visual element of the sticks

here's another good one by two of the same guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egwXKQDYcvc
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Bumblebee man on December 26, 2009, 10:27:40 pm
This is really really good. I like it a lot. Thanks for this.
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: big ass skelly on December 26, 2009, 10:54:09 pm
I D.L.ed the song and it's ok background noise I guess. Pretty fuckin samey though guys??
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Buttkiller on December 26, 2009, 11:14:18 pm
lol
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Melee Master on December 26, 2009, 11:48:06 pm
Yeah, Steve Reich is genius. If you guys like this take a look at his Piano Phase. It's basically a 12 note sequence played simultaneously on two pianos and, I don't know the exact mechanics but, every 8 bars (maybe 16?) or so, one of the pianos displaces itself back a note and it does it 12 times until it's back to where it started. I know an alternate way is for one piano to just play just the smallest bit slower (or faster) than the other, but I think that's actually much harder. Either way it's a really cool concept. Reich and all those minimalists basically started techno.
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: crone_lover720 on December 27, 2009, 02:17:04 am
Reich and all those minimalists basically started techno.
you take that back

some minihouse actually does use some of reich's minimalist concepts tho.

also listen to steve reich - come out
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Buttkiller on December 27, 2009, 03:38:12 am
http://tinysong.com/9CsL
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Buttkiller on December 27, 2009, 03:45:44 am
cummahumma shoshosho
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: bonzi_buddy on December 27, 2009, 10:12:29 am
Yeah, Steve Reich is genius. If you guys like this take a look at his Piano Phase. It's basically a 12 note sequence played simultaneously on two pianos and, I don't know the exact mechanics but, every 8 bars (maybe 16?) or so, one of the pianos displaces itself back a note and it does it 12 times until it's back to where it started. I know an alternate way is for one piano to just play just the smallest bit slower (or faster) than the other, but I think that's actually much harder. Either way it's a really cool concept. Reich and all those minimalists basically started techno.
ahhahaha if this would have been done nowdays it would have something stewen wilson would have tried in his solo albums or whatever. IT*S A COOL CONCEPT
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Buttkiller on December 27, 2009, 05:17:27 pm
are you seriosuly doing that. please dont compare s\teev reich to sterven wilson
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Bumblebee man on December 27, 2009, 06:15:22 pm
steven wilson strikes me as the kind of guy who would cite steve reich as an influence and then sounds nothing like him.
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Buttkiller on December 27, 2009, 06:36:59 pm
steven wilson strikes me as the kind of guy that can perform autofellatio and will talk to you about it for hours if it comes up and will continue to talk about it as you grow visibly uneasy and after you leave he will call you later and talk about suckin he own dick.
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: ATARI on December 27, 2009, 06:38:48 pm
how embarrasing is it to have invented techno
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Bumblebee man on December 27, 2009, 06:41:02 pm
techno rules so not very?
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: ATARI on December 27, 2009, 07:06:24 pm
the answer is i'd kill myself if someone told me i invented techno
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Buttkiller on December 27, 2009, 07:09:02 pm
i just spilled techno all over my pants
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: crone_lover720 on December 27, 2009, 07:13:07 pm
I don't think they invented techno. I don't think technos even knew about minimalists. yeah they both got a BEAT that might sound a little similar but they try to achieve very different things. there are some techno artists that consciously use minimalist concepts like the Field, but that's something that came later when techno artists actually had access to stuff like 18 Musicians instead of just club shit

ahhahaha if this would have been done nowdays it would have something stewen wilson would have tried in his solo albums or whatever. IT*S A COOL CONCEPT
but if it was steven wilson it would be more like "fart let's do this just for the fuck of it lol it'll be fun shit dump poop"
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Buttkiller on December 27, 2009, 07:15:23 pm
can invented techno
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Erave on December 27, 2009, 09:14:37 pm
this is minimalist music, right?

I heard this when I used to be a composition major and always liked. I went through a week long phase of listening to minimal music, I even got to look at this score. The discipline it takes to play stuff like is crazy.

Good tune
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Parker on December 28, 2009, 05:49:21 am
The discipline it takes to play stuff like is crazy.
seriously, that's the most impressive thing for me. steve reich actually recommends using MORE than 18 musicians for this song. =^_^= <--- lo  l
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: big ass skelly on December 28, 2009, 03:01:27 pm
I guess theyd need more for when the first 18 fall asleep lol
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: Parker on December 28, 2009, 11:21:47 pm
I guess theyd need more for when the first 18 fall asleep lol
LOL
Title: Music For 18 Musicians
Post by: big ass skelly on December 29, 2009, 12:37:55 am
hehe