– 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.
Dr Jamie Drake – 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.
Dr Jonny Smith – 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.
Oliver Xu – 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.
Matt Chiu and Tyler Howie – 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.
Gary Schall and Russell Hartenberger reflect on the life and legacy of James Preiss.
Steve Reich – In 2020, Steve Reich revised the “Notes by the Composer” for the Boosey & Hawkes score to Drumming, which was first published in 2011.
Thomas Brett – Reflections on aspects of Steve Reich’s music, including influences, ergonomics, inherent rhythms, timbre, and timelines.
Lauren Vogel Weiss – Steve Reich was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2007 joining some of the members of his ensemble and other esteemed composers of music for percussion. Lauren Vogel Weiss outlines Reich’s career in an article for Percussive Notes, the journal of the Percussive Arts Society.