Re: [linux-audio-user] 70th Birthday of Steve Reich.

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:08:41PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > > and a happy birthday to steve reich, whom i first encountered at the
> > > tender age of 16 and my life has never been the same since. one of the
> > > many geniuses of 20th century music.
> >
> > I bet that's a heck of a story. I wonder if it would be acceptable use of
> > bandwidth to tell it?
>
> i think you're supposing that "first encountered" meant "met in person".
> alas no. i was just putting on the headphones in our family living room,
> about to listen to some klaus schulze or tangerine dream or whatever
> kraut-space-music i had just purchased. the system was set to listen to
> BBC Radio 4, and as i put the phones on i came in on the middle of
> "music for 18 musicians". at 16, or perhaps any age, and in 1979,
> figuring out what on earth that music was seemed impossible ... not
> gamelan, not rock, not dub, not space music, not classical, not african
> drumming. it changed me forever. sorry there's no good story about
> actually meeting reich :)

Ah, I like that kind of story, too. That's probably how most musicians would
prefer to be "encountered," anyway, since that's the part they're offering to
the world.

-Forest