Gates of Delirium

This week I had a focus on modern, post-modern, minimalist and ambient composers. Post modern, that means we are living after modern times, which is obviously the future. So bam, music from the future! And the greatest thing about it is that a lot of these composers are very classically based. Kind of like you have to know the rules to break them, and these guys tear the rules to itty bitty unrecognizable shreds. Some of the highlighted artists:
Brian Eno
Steve Reich
Philip Glass
and John Cage
really some of my favorite composers. Here are some links.
This on is the interview with John Cage I played over his piano piece “Dreams” about sound and silence

and here is a video of Steve Reich’s piece “Different Trains,” about WWII and includes recordings from holocaust survivors

Includes subtitles for the recordings too which is nice

Here is one more video explaining all about musique concrete, a musical style that consists of mish-mashing sounds together, early on this was done by manually manipulating tape that had recorded sounds on it. The nice man in this video explains it much better than I.

John Cage’s “Imaginary Landscape” played in the show is a good example of musique concrete

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