{"id":31924,"date":"2016-03-15T16:27:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=31924"},"modified":"2016-03-15T16:27:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:27:02","slug":"pure-its-all-about-that-rhythm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=31924","title":{"rendered":"Pure: It’s All About That Rhythm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month we already had a chance to see that minimalism is coming back<\/a>. However, we only discussed art and graphic design in particular. What about other fields then? Well, it has to be stated that minimalism in music is on its peak as well.<\/p>\n

It is believed that in relation to music the word \u2018minimal\u2019 was first used by Michael Nyman in 1960\u2019s (more precisely, in 1968). In his review for The Spectator<\/em> he used this term to describe a piano composition Springen<\/em> by Danish composer Hennig Christiansen. Minimalism in music became \u2018the thing\u2019 thanks to a group of American composers: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass<\/strong>. They were the first musicians to experiment with minimalistic sound. <\/p>\n

What kind of music may be described as minimal? Steady pulse and rhythm, consonant harmony, repetitions. Nothing too complicated, just simple sounds, but sometimes the simplest things can produce the most beautiful outcomes\u2026<\/p>\n

Stephen Reich\u2019s It\u2019s Gonna Rain<\/em> and Come Out<\/em> are the great examples of creating phasing patterns (you hear \u2018It\u2019s gonna rain, it\u2019s gonna rain\u2026\u2019 over and over again and eventually your mind become hypnotized by the pitch and rhythm). <\/p>\n

Philip Glass developed minimalistic music even further, he shook the opera world with his Einstein On The beach<\/em>. Operas are usually over-indulgent but Glass introduced a completely new sound to a classic opera world. <\/p>\n