Steve Reich- Electric Counterpoint III
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- Created on: 25-04-13 12:41
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- Steve Reich- Electric Counterpoint III
- Technology
- Old tapes cut and pasted together
- Multi-track recording to layer sounds
- Live performances often use recorded backing tracks to build up the layers
- Melody
- Guitar 3 uses additive melody where 2 or 3 notes keep being added util the whole riff is heard
- Tonality & Harmony
- Reich uses tonal ambiguity- keeps the listener guessing
- Bass guitars confirm E minor- aeolian mode
- Changes to C minor in B section for contrast
- Piece finishes on an E5 chord giving "open" and "sparse" sound.
- Tempo & Rhythm
- Made up of rhythmic layered ostinati which are phase shifted and displaced
- Constant tempo throughout
- 3/2 12/8 3/2
- Form & Structure
- Divided into two main sections A and B with a coda
- Main sections then subdivided into four smaller sections, each defined by changes of key and texture
- Instrumentation
- The guitar parts enter in the following order:
- Guitar 1
- Live guitar 2, 3 and 4
- Bass guitars 1 and 2: 5, 6 ,7
- Texture
- Multi-layered texture each track being "multi-tracked" to allow live performances over the top
- Texture fairly constant but with the use of panning texture always seems to be shifting
- Interviewing rhythms
- Facts about set work
- Written for jazz guitarist Pat Methney
- Record all parts himself
- Tape loops
- Third movements 140 bars long
- Lasts 4:30 minutes
- Technology
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