Event overview
PhD student Paul Cassidy will give a paper "On the Anomalousness of Steve Reich's 'Four Organs'"
Steve Reich has written four ‘multiple-keyboard’ works: Piano Phase (1967), Four Organs (1969), Phase Patterns (1969) and Six Pianos (1973). One of these works – Four Organs – is often regarded as the anomaly: it is the only one of the four to have started life as an abstract concept (Reich’s 1967 publication Slow Motion Sound); it is the only one of the four to feature a non-keyboard instrument (maracas); and it is the only one of the four that does not feature a musical pattern being played ‘out of phase’ with itself. However, this paper seeks to demonstrate that the anomalousness of Four Organs can actually be explained at a far more profound level…
Free event, all welcome
Image: Steve Reich, The Times
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 21 Oct 2014 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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