– A presentation of rhythmic voice leading as a pedagogical application of beat-class analysis to identify transformations of rhythmic motives in Steve Reich’s Mallet Quartet.
– A presentation of rhythmic voice leading as a pedagogical application of beat-class analysis to identify transformations of rhythmic motives in Steve Reich’s Mallet Quartet.
– An examination of the function of relationship and community in the creation of Steve Reich’s Drumming, and an assessment of the benefits and challenges of collaborative approaches to creating music.
– This project uses an algorithmic approach to explore the concept of resultant patterns as used by Steve Reich in Drumming. It seeks to analyze what it means for a resultant pattern to be interesting and to encode these intuitive musical characteristics into a computer algorithm.
– An examination of the challenges and rewards of playing the percussion music of Steve Reich using the themes of “Texture, Space, and Survival” as taken from a 1987 Reich essay of the same name.
– Reflections on aspects of Steve Reich’s music, including influences, ergonomics, inherent rhythms, timbre, and timelines.
– The composer of Drumming discusses musical intuition, time feel, speech rhythms, electronics, the music of India, and how he uses rhythm in his compositions. He describes his early percussion training and his experience with the music of West Africa and Bali.
– An overview of Russell Hartenberger’s book that provides a performer’s perspective on Steve Reich’s compositions from his iconic minimalist work, Drumming, to his masterpiece, Music for 18 Musicians. The book addresses performance issues encountered by musicians in Reich’s original ensemble and the techniques they developed to bring his compositions to life.
Gary Schall and Russell Hartenberger reflect on the life and legacy of James Preiss.
