Steve Reich - Come Out

ballet

[@ying_lu]

Such great video! This part is called "Come Out" created by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker when she was at 22, is among Anne's marvelous choreographic unity "Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich". The music "Come Out" was created by Steve Reich in 1966. I was luckily enough to watch Anne's live performance in Shanghai 2 days ago. Their movements on the stage were really remarkable & fasinating, the repetition of the music and selected movements, the devision of the space, the lighting. Anne explained they named each movement with lables A, B, C, D, A1, B2, C4, D3 etc in her interview.

[@desteddyeggroll]

I like how the description of the video just says, "ballet".

[@MsLeguman]

1966. One of the earliest source of techno music. More radical than anything produced nowadays. Historic masterpiece.

[@tgonzalez3]

Come Out is a 1966 piece by American composer Steve Reich. Reich was asked to edit down tape footage into a form of collage for a benefit for the Harlem Six and Come Out was a byproduct of the collage's production. The Harlem Six were six black youths arrested for a murder of a white woman in Harlem in the weeks following the Little Fruit Stand Riot of 1964. Only one of the six was responsible while the lead witness is generally considered the actual perpetrator. Truman Nelson, a civil rights activist and New Yorker who had asked Reich to compose a sound collage that was separate from Come Out, gave him a collection of tapes with recorded voices to use as source material. Nelson agreed to give Reich creative freedom with the tapes that he presented him for the sound collage. Come Out was a loop of four seconds of the more than 70 hours of tapes Nelson presented to Reich.

[@Piltribus]

art is not to please but to question and move you

[@DanJWilcox]

Pretty ambitious especially due to the fact that this was made in 1966 and Reich was one of the first to experiment with tape looping, food for thought.

[@immusicmad2]

This could easily pass as a future house track these days - what a masterpiece

[@kh-ro5su]

the producers of this did a great job. it's the perfect setting in an empty modernist building, the camera work fits well, the editing becomes as choreographed and important as the dance itself

[@antfactor]

This is great... but I feel the phrasing is (technically) off...(?) I would have done a tighter interpretation... But - that's me - 😎

[@netako]

No way this “music video” was made in 1982, it's so ahead of its time.

[@DrumWild]

The audio used for "Come Out" was selected by Steve Reich from over 70 hours of audio given to him related to The Little Fruit Stand Riot in 1964. The young man speaking on the tape is Daniel Hamm, age 18, and he was part of a group of young men known as the "Harlem Six."

[@dmartin_sound]

Reich was one of the first composers of the mid-twentieth century to explore the concept of phase modulation and minimalism in his work. As one of his earliest works, "Come Out" uses a recording of a human voice because of the complex timbres, vowel sounds, and percussive consonant content within spoken word. As the piece progresses, all semblance of the original phase is dismantled while more layers and copies are added and slowly pushed out of phase. The dancing pairs well with the piece because they capture the essence of "together but separate" in their gestures, which can be interpreted as phase modulation in movement. Love it or hate it, Reich's work here paved the way for a lot of music released today. He also composed this in commemoration of the Harlem six, which is a history lesson for another time.

[@MisterF_1984]

It's a beautiful thing that I can watch & listen to this incredibly obscure piece of art without leaving my seat.

[@scarter3569]

Utterly magnificent. Disturbing, compelling and spellbinding.

[@ternitamas]

So hypnotic! I'm enjoying the trance feeling, can't stop watching/listening

[@brucecollins2156]

This piece changed my life as exceptionally few pieces of art have.

[@themightysrc1962]

Absolutely astonishing.

[@edwinkirk1706]

Watching this just made me cry. It's so descriptive, intense and yet locked in such a tiny area - like the real lives of us plebs, the ones who don't matter and never did. Come out! Dissent! In a moment of illumination the reason for everything becomes clear. Life afterwards, no matter what happens, now means something. They can and probably will break and shatter us, but that exaltation - it's beyond their claws. Come out and show them! It's worth it!

[@jngrand]

An outstanding piece and an outstanding performance!

[@Newton14alan]

Wow. That was really necessary. I'm so happy now.