HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE REICH

kortbein: can we talk about fisting again?
ethANP2 3: right so fisting
Dubplatestyle: who on ilx would you most like to fist?
IanAtBrown: we certainly can but you need to pick up the topic and run with it
ethANP2 3: emma or ramosi
nitsuht: Wait, I know that one --
ethANP2 3: oh wait anthony
ethANP2 3: come on nitsuh we're on your turf now
ethANP2 3: do your thing
nitsuht: Surprisingly, I don't think I actually want to fist anyone on ILX.
ethANP2 3: nitsuh you big puss
ReverieFilm: I don't want to fist anyone, ever.
Dubplatestyle: i want to fist steve reich.
kortbein: the minimalist composer, jess?
Dubplatestyle: sure why not?
nitsuht: It's just no one on ILX seems particularly fistable.
Dubplatestyle: i want to phase-fist him.
ethANP2 3: i want to fist philip glass
kortbein: hahaha
ethANP2 3: or have some kind of relations with him
kortbein: make sure you get it on tape, he can use it later
Dubplatestyle: that means vibrate my hand real fast inside him.
Dubplatestyle: music for 18 fisticians.
ethANP2 3: do the ryu hadoken on him
nitsuht: Or you could use either hand at varying intervals ...
nitsuht: Until they sync up and you're using both.
ReverieFilm: also, me fisting someone would really hurt them
ethANP2 3: what if you put a theremin in someone's ass
ethANP2 3: and then fisted them
kortbein: their ass would make spooky noises while you fisted them, then
Dubplatestyle: "good vibrations."
ethANP2 3: but they are closed in your fist
ethANP2 3: HOORAY JESS

hb jw

"the CRACK train to new YO-ORK."

10/21 & 22

Reich, Steve: Different Trains
Kronos Quartet
Stern Auditorium, New York, New York, United States

Reich, Steve: Electric Counterpoint
Pat Metheny, guitar
Stern Auditorium, New York, New York, United States

Reich, Steve: Music for 18 Musicians
Steve Reich and Musicians
Stern Auditorium, New York, New York, United States

Loking forward to...:

7 October

Freestage 2.45pm
Balinese Gamelan with Andy Channing & the LSO gamelan group. Maya Beiser performs Kebyar Maya by Evan Ziporyn.

Freestage 6.15pm
Music for Airports
Bang on a Can All-Stars perform Brian Eno's Music for Airports.

8 October

Freestage 3.45pm
Konono No 1

Barbican Hall 8.00pm
Maya Beiser, Steve Reich & Musicians with Synergy Vocals, Brad Lubman

Daniel Variations (Steve Reich Ensemble with Synergy Vocals, Brad Lubman, world premiere) was commissioned by the Barbican in celebration of Reich’s 70th birthday. Reich puts a text from the Book of Daniel alongside words by the violinist and mandolin player Daniel Pearl, the journalist taken hostage and murdered by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in 2002.
Cello Counterpoint (Maya Beiser, London premiere) the latest in Reich’s Counterpoint series, is for cello and multi-channel tape of seven other cello voices.
The 1970s masterpiece Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich and
Musicians with Synergy Vocals) is one of the landmarks in the early history of minimalism, and the work that cemented Reich’s reputation.

...don't even get me started, dude.

Fantastic, especially the New York Counterpoint, Proverb, and music for mallet/voice/organ. I did not like the Alarm Will Sound guy that played the electric guitar and later sang the tenor parts like a cheesy karaoke dude.

but that was the best 4 hours i've spent in a long time. amazing.

on the upside, i think there's a showing of ghostbusters this weekend. wh yo bitche gonn cal?
m.

-- killy (fagsztra...), October 17th, 2006.

Ya rly. Except I missed the first of the three segments for being late, so it was more like 2.5 hours. I really wanted to see Pendulum Music. But pretty much everything I saw was muy good. I've been listening to Reich and playing the concert back in my head all day.

I also thought it was funny that the Michael Gordon piece had Yamaha DX7s in it - very period-authentic.

It was kind of strange to sit through It's Gonna Rain in a room full of people, but it was fun to watch some dig it and others squirm.

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