Steve Reich's (and indeed Philip Glass's) music lends itself strongly to a How we work because it has a strong performative and methodological component. But until we dig into that, read this from a 2006 profile and try imagine what music for moving bookcases he and Glass must have hummed together as they humped sideboards up staircases and carried boxes of records for music-loving householders:
In 1966 Reich moved back to New York, where he got to know Philip Glass. At one point they had a moving company together; Glass also worked as a plumber while Reich drove a cab.
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Jones: http://magicalnihilism.com/2012/10/23/two-quotes-from-the-rest-is-noise-by-alex-ross
Posted by: Rod McLaren | October 24, 2012 at 09:54 AM