Steve Reich on how a composer reads sculpture | MoMA BBC | THE WAY I SEE IT

In this episode of The Way I See It, our radio collaboration with BBC, we’ve captured composer Steve Reich’s audible awe as he sees his friend Richard Serra’s monumental 2015 sculpture Equal for the first time. As Reich puts it, he and Serra are “in tune to the same frequencies,” so their meeting in Manhattan in the 1960s and subsequent friendship was both important and inevitable.
Working in sound and steel respectively, both Reich and Serra rejected traditional compositional structures-one of harmony and the other of form-to give shape to their work. Reich is the recipient of countless awards, including two Grammys, a Pulitzer, and, recently, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. His works are performed in concert halls all over the world, and recently at Glastonbury Festival.
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[@JayBenedictBrown]

The more sublime an abstract work the more difficult it becomes to attach meaningful language to it. It just is.

[@xonxon4606]

Thank you MOMA for giving the content to the world.

[@Gellermusic]

one of the greatest of all time no debate

[@alsaulso1332]

One of my favorite composers 😊

[@rene5600]

i love raw steel ( iron) i want it in my kitchen as flooring ..next year it will love it . special coating on it anti-slip but the rawness stays . love these iron plate blocks .....

[@memopinzon]

Electric Counterpoint makes me feel funny things.

[@DrRonArt]

Perhaps Richard Serra's Equal is a series of stacked monoliths, e.g. representing whatever sociopolitical "ism" may be in current news. There may be over-hangs or under-hangs, which as Steve Reich suggests lends a certain irony to the "equal" installation, but these monoliths are all fundamentally the same - intransigent and enduring, but can also be toppled. So perhaps the irony is that there isn't irony.

[@calogerobuttacavoli78]

Great

[@marcogentile7292]

👏👏👏👏👏💕

[@christianegonbarnthaler1426]

super art 1

[@maxbobo3904]

Only time will tell if it is truly just rocks.

[@darylcumming4817]

👍👍👍👍

[@mnchls]

is that an actual Reich piece playing in the background?

[@sacdigitaldesignweb]

unitedstases I hope not

[@kikkancris]

Fantastic clip... please what is the background music? I can say that I know almost all of Rech's music, but I don't know which piece it belongs to. It seems to be the period of Reich's last 10 years, being so articulated; can someone help me? Thanks MoMa

[@adlibruj]

"Made to Last" to say the least!