Steve Reich - Marimba Phase

Steve Reich's Marimba (Piano) Phase Performed by Micheal Barnes and Charlie Mogen in the Catlett Music Center at the University of Oklahoma on May 11th, 2016.
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[@pummisher1186]

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[@richnimby]

Go off kings

[@hedonicmusic]

the neighbours be like: when will the chorus drop?

[@patience1353]

Beautiful performance. Also loving Mogen's mesmerising marimba moobs.

[@JeniJustJeni]

Thanks for unloading. I find this kind of music mesmerizing. It pleases my ears in the same way watching "satisfying" videos please my eyes.

[@JeniJustJeni]

Thanks for the heart!

[@Michail_Chatziasemidis]

I adore this, guys! Piano may emit a futuristic sound, but you, guys, echo so ethereally! Thank you!

[@LarsBjerregaard]

Very beautiful! Well done.

[@vanhetgoor]

This is truly an outstanding performance. Now try the Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt.

[@jaguizinho]

This is nice played guys. Really good.

[@BCISTUDIOS]

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[@hedonicmusic]

Imma say something. This is great.

[@foxfoster1]

I was listening to this and my roommate thought I was oversleeping my alarm

[@andrewohler3198]

I like many others here am really confused at how you play this accurately. I imagine the only way to practice this is following a metronome that’s gradually speeding up because when you look at his sheet music, there’s no clear indication of the goal. He wants you to be gradually speed up to a goal in like 20 measures. How do you know if you hit the correct alignment and tempo by the time you reach a specific measure? And 21 minutes??? That has to be absolutely draining lol

[@jaguizinho]

Did you see(hear) that the second marimba speed up but then he turn to the inicial tempo? The logic is to separate then again you set it up together, beggining your phrase one note ahead , but syncd again

[@PugCuber]

It’s interesting to hear when it essentially goes into hand-to-hand splits, but then gradually goes back into sync.

[@Phydoux2112]

@@jaguizinho Exactly. I believe it's the guy in the purple shirt that does the speeding up. But he gets one note ahead every time. That's the genius of this. Every position where the one set of notes is offset by the other sounds spectacular! I don't know if anyone else caught the change at around 11:20 by the guy in the orange shirt but that was really smooth too. Great piece!

[@SinclairLott]

I’ve performed this piece. It requires two players with very good time and is most effective when the player speeding up does so very slowly. Slow enough in fact to be able to hear clearly the places where the two players are playing between one another prior to settling on the next pattern.

[@43Rhein10]

hypnotic ….!(how do you know when you must change "melody" and tempo ? I mean, do you count, or improvise ??)

[@jonathaneffemey8828]

count

[@whirlywhirly5758]

They play the same phase, but the second phase moves. It’s just counting.

[@hermask815]

@@whirlywhirly5758 well if it’s just counting, we should make this mandatory for elementary school. I know a piece for class size. … 18….

[@DrWhom]

-exp(-i t) - exp(i t) + exp(-i (1 + epsilon) t) + exp(i (1 + epsilon) t)

[@antigen4]

i don't see how a human can actually do this - as we naturally 'synchronise' with others - unless they are wearing earbuds maybe with a metronome they are following?

[@Eorzat]

Like anything else, they practiced. There's a certain approach that you have to take with Reich's music, but it can be done.

[@marinaloewenthal674]

Did you see(hear) that the second marimba speed up but then he turn to the inicial tempo? The logic is to separate then again you set it up together, beggining your phrase one note ahead , but syncd again

[@DrWhom]

Reich explained how to rehearse this. The performers first practice the initial and final phases of each phase shift, until they get a feel for what the patterns before and after should sound like. This makes it easier to "home in" on shifted pattern as you focus on "merely" maintaining your assigned tempo and let the magic happen by itself. The difficulty in practice turns out to avoid a sort of overshoot effect where the second player, anxious to get it right, goes too fast.

[@jamesportrais3946]

Practice and resultant muscle reflex. Not so many years ago, threads on pipe fittings were made by hand. That is to say something akin to a wood lathe. "How do you do it?" asked my father: "The first thousand are the worst" replied the kid with a wink. What surprises me more are the "extra" sounds that appear which obviously do not come from a striking.

[@yehat17]

They're musicians. They practiced

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