Minimilist Stuff

In our sleep, as we speak

[PhraSEOlogy]

Okay, I dont really like minimalist stuff like Phillip Glass, but I gotta admit I like Lou Reeds, In Our Sleep (which has a minimalist lyric). Anyone else out there got other other love/hates in minimalist stuff.

[PhraSEOlogy]

Bump - how minimalist can a thread get!

You seen it first at WebmasterWorld folks!

[grandpa]

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[PhraSEOlogy]

thanks grandpa or should i say ""

[bill]

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[mack]

:)

[zCat]

　

[zCat]

(For those of you who don't read raw character code, that's a double-width unicode space).

[rj87uk]

*Walks away...*

[larryhatch]

The old song "Seventh Son" by Mose Allison.

Just three finger piano and his own voice. Very very effective. -Larry

[lawman]

[kevinpate]

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[limbo]

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[martinibuster]

Arvo Part is cool.

I admit to having a soft spot for Philip Glass' soundtrack to the movie Mishima. I thought it captured a certain essence (as I felt it) of Yukio Mishima.

The movie was bad, but after listening to the soundtrack a thousand times, it was kind of cool to see/hear it within it's intended context. I still enjoy the soundtrack.

I enjoyed Japanese court poetry, that's pretty minimalist... I think.

[grelmar]

Ennio Morricone has written some nifty Oboe solos...

He also wrote the soundtrack for "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," and "The Mission," and a pile of other movies.

He tends to go from simple and haunting to bombastically religious...

[grelmar]

Just looked that up in IMDB...

Composer credit in Five Hundred and Fifty Five movies...

No wonder he writes a lot of minimalist music... I can't see him getting any sleep otherwise.

[httpwebwitch]

Check out Steve Reich's work in phasing patterns and minimalist cycles - extremely difficult to play, & if you ever get the chance to witness a rare performance of them, do not pass it up... Another favourite minimalist is Terry Riley - Music historians would be intrigued by his "A Rainbow in Curved Air", experimental music that offered inspiration to Pete Townshend (the Who) to create "Baba O'Reilly" and other works...

In visual art it's hard to express nothing in a beautiful way without seeming trite, but I do like some of Frank Stella's work. Sculptor/installationist Charles Ray has some fascinating pseudo-minimalist work that I enjoy.

If all this stuff turns your crank, see if you can find a recording of "I am Sitting in a Room" by Alvin Lucier.

[PhraSEOlogy]

httpwebwitch,

"I am sitting in a room"

Pretty cool stuff - but I am sure much unappreciated.

[httpwebwitch]

It's such an unappreciated work of art. Beyond the message actually spoken, Lucier is expressing how the room into which a sound is played becomes more important than the sound itself. It's a comment on artist/audience, as well as a personal statement about his own experience with sound, destroying his own speaking irregularities (stuttering) using acoustics.

link [ubu.com]