Six Marimbas - Steve Reich
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2012
- Steve Reich's Six Marimbas from my final undergraduate recital at Mcgill University.
Performed by: Colin Van de Reep, Noam Bierstone, Sandro Valiante, Mark Morton, Ben Reimer and Ben Duinker.
Recorded by Denis Martin.
I composed a masterwork entitled "Music for 7,654, 321 Marimbas and 1 accordion".
While this may be the greatest composition in history, we are still clearing a Brazilian rainforest to construct the marimbas before it can be heard.
I've listened to this piece for 20 years and it's so nice to see it actually performed. My kids thought I was crazy but when Drum and Bass came along they finally understood.
Michael Colonna Are you sure you don't mean 20 minutes?
Trolls aside, yeah, there aren't enough people who appreciate this genre these days.
+Michael Colonna what an ace connection
+tomdissonance Thanks Tom
+Semordnilap Reknits I love this, "music for 18 musicians" and other stuff like it. What genre is this? Minimalist?
I haven't been able to pin the genre down.
Hi Marcus, It's called Minimal Music.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_music
I listened to this many times over many years. I love the sound. It is like flowing water. I can’t imagine how difficult this is to perform.
Shut up
Legend has it they’re still playing those marimbas to this day
When you hear other instruments like a bass and drums into this NOT FOUND IN STAGE then you realize that such piece is simply magical.
Shut up
I know a pro musician that has played Reich in performance. Repeating a phase for many bars then taking say 23 bars rest! Frightening concentration is needed to play his stuff well. These undergrads manage it really well!
My thoughts exactly. Any old douche can get up and do the squealy thing on the electric guitar and wing it from there, but this.... This takes fucking focus.
And any young douche can tell you about what any old douche can do....
Christian Friis Jensen
No...
Yes it is hard to play this music, but to play electric guitar (or any instrument) well takes a lot of skill
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't take skill to create
It's extremely difficult, if one marimba change the rythym slighlty in one bar...
They all end up in care homes too frightened to order cocoa.
What I love most is coming into a room and hearing the same piece seemingly played from a totally different angle until it slowly gets "back in synch".
just two hands and a floating head playing back right
Who cares about the technique or the tempo, the sound is amazing. These guys have worked dead hard and done themselves proud. This performance is something to aspire to!
Shut up
Reich is a genius possibly bordering on Bach in polyrhythmic innovation. I have enjoyed music, but not immediately entranced and sedated to it. I've only discovered him last year and since then I've been mesmerized. His music seems more relevant today in our cluttered, noisy existence. Minimalist works in general too including Richter and Glass provide an alternate space of clarity in music and an idea of different spatial realities as opposed to the constant angst and emotion characteristic in romantic works that is too human-centered in my opinion and to which I now prefer.
That’s also the reason why I love his work.
Shut up
this really delivered on the promises of its title
THIS IS WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF.
I LOVE THE SOUND OF THESE MARIMBAS. SOMETHING PRIMITIVE YET PURE AND VIRGIN. LIKE PHILIP GLASS IT ALWAYS HAS NEW ENERGY THROUGH THE NOTES SEEM TO REPEAT.
I love how every rhythm starts and then proceeds to continuously go though modified sequence after another until the entire rhythmic pattern has changed into a completely new melody and phrase.
One of Reich's finest compositions. As an amazed fellow Canadian, I applaud your performances at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec!
この曲は、まるで降り続く雨の音を聞いているかのように、瞑想状態の心地よさを味わえます。This song puts you in a meditative state, as if you were listening to the sound of rain falling.
同じフレーズが一定時間続くかと思えば、小さな変化が時々起こり、変化が次の変化を呼び覚ます様子は、自然界の様相さながらのように思えます。It seems like the same phrase continues for a certain amount of time, but small changes occur from time to time, and each change evokes the next change, just like in the natural world.
I come back and listen to this often. It's I think my favorite performance of Six Marimbas I've come across. You all have a strong understanding of the dynamics and how to work together within dynamic ranges. The (very occasional) mistakes make it more real to me. Such a fabulous job! Makes me think of my time in music school, and I wish that our faculty had been as interested in letting us do pieces like this!
This is AMAZING! I used to play this instrument! Actually forgot how versatile the sound is and how naturally rhythmic it is. I am truly glad someone is still playing this!
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Fantastic performance here! What sound! Amazing concentration and skill is shown!
APPLAUSE! I just found this accidentally and couldn't tear myself away!
I enjoyed this very much!
Exactly the same! I put on some Philip Glass while I was working on something, then UA-cam carried on with this. I would NEVER have chosen it myself. Now I've favourited it and will wear it out, I don't doubt. Wonderfully exciting new sounds.
Steve Reich is such a genius :D
The ecstasy of repetition...... tears a rent in the very fabric of the universe!
Great performance of a fascinating piece , Colin. McGill is quite a prestigious institution - you must be very proud!
Thank you for posting this, this is incredibly well executed
Just love this presentation. Listened many times.
it is so wonderful Steve Reich have composed and his very talented musicians shaped...what a great fantasy buket of feelings, rememberings thoughts and experiences realized in well did music many of us can associate to him, his family, us self. Happiness in a high grade and suffering and sadness for lost family members and a lost world. And the look up and down and get the contact... a bit to eternity. Remember the past and remember the future. I love your sight to life and world, Steve
I could listen to this all day! i love this kinda music its nice to zone out to.
Here because of Andre 3000 he recommended Steve Reich and Philip Glass... Definitely a vibe!
Wow, that is cool! Andre 3000 does have a very diverse taste in music and references to great musical creations are always a blessing. Enjoy! explore!
I heard Andre talk about Reich on Rick Ruben's podcast! I see references to Reich popping up all the time with musicians I admire. It's amazing how much influence this guy has had.
Beautiful! Thanks for posting this lovely performance. Good luck with your music
This is by far the best rendition out there of this piece of music. Bravo!
one of my favourite Steve Reich pieces, a beautiful performance.
Fantastic - by far the best version on UA-cam. I listen to this often whilst I am working.
Thanks so much for sharing this, it's truly lovely!
This makes me want to learn to play the Marimba even more. Such a beautiful sound and think this is what I heard playing on the radio, only this morning. Love it !
Beautiful piece and performance!
What an outstanding performance!
THX for filming this! A relief in these contagious days. Stay healthy, fil of WH.
J'adore ! Du grand art...Ca c'est du lourd...
Marimbas are fascinating instruments. SO relaxing.
Beautiful. well done lads.
This would be a great ringtone
This is totaly epic, super wunderfull and never done after..
Every time I watch this, I think the dude second from the right looks like Arnold Horshack from Welcome Back Kotter.
This is great focusing music, and does a great job of blocking out distractions and getting me in the zone for writing college papers and such. A lot of Reich's music is, in fact... Music for 18 Musicians is another favorite of mine, along with Sextet. Reich's music just kind of fades into the background, and I mostly forget it's even playing.
The fact that you forgot it was even playing is a good thing. For example, Minecraft - Volume Alpha, by C418. That's what makes Minecraft's soundtrack so memorable, as you forget that it was actually playing.
Amazing performance. Bravo!
Mesmerizing.. ❤
this performance is flawless
Stupendous......man got talent.
Incredible.
Me dió gusto escuchar de nuevo a Steve Reich
beautiful
Awesome piece. Like clapping music too. Steve Reich is amazing!
I love it!!
pretty amazing! awesome performance. I have loved Steve Reich's Six Marimbas since the mid-90's, introduced to minimalist music by a teacher friend, Scott Smoot, in Jackson, Miss. Incredible multi-rhythms going on at the same time. Great job, guys!
Great performance, many thanks.
Excelente, la compenetración entre la seis marimbas es, sin duda alguna, maravillosa.
I love this!
I really like this piece of music
Great job!
Very nicely performed. Sound is superb.
This is amazing!
such joyful music
Brilliant!
Precision. Wonderful precision
Hypnotizing!
STEVE REICH IS A ORIGINAL UNIK GENIUS
MINIMALIST WHO HAS SPACIEL COMPLEX
TONAL CHORDS AND HARMONY THAT 🤨
TOGETHER WITH THE REPETITION SOUND
LIKE A COSMIC HYPNOSA AND TRANS😇
nice work, lads, great stuff
Absolutely fantastic. This must be sooooo difficult to perform. Steve Reich at his very best.
I've played the guitar version of this for 6 guitars, and Nagoya Marimbas for 2 guitars. No matter what you play it on, it is extremely difficult. It requires absolute focus, and very relaxed technique (esp. to not get a repetitive stress injury!)
Wonderful!!
i wonder what this would sound like with seven marimbas?
Court Laszlo Wright It would break the fabric of the universe.
Court Laszlo Wright There will be no world!
Court Laszlo Wright Sept-imba
+Court Laszlo Wright I'm sure in certain underground record stores or the black corners of the dark web there IS a Seven Marimbas.
+meangene408 . Definitely exits there.....or in a short story by Jorge Luis Borges......
Mega schön gemacht
Hypnotic, thrilling.
I like the rich, constant underlying Base Register.
It's 'bass', not 'base', and you don't need to capitalize it.
Robert CROSS bandonioss os melhotes
I like it too. His microphone probably missed spelled it, mine does it all the time, like just now. And I'm usually too tired to go back and fix the typo
I like BASS
THAT ONE GUY. THAT. ONE, GUY., awesome performance
Amaaaaaaaazinnnnng!
Amazing✨
i want to fall asleep with this on eternal repeat.
You might never wake up. It's called a musical coma.
If you fall asleep you certainly won't hear it on eternal repeat.
Nhất chứ tỉnh.
Music from heaven
To me, the player at the far right is playing to forcefully - in other versions, the part around 6:30 is a smooth and melodic way of modulating, and introducing the second part. And from 6:51 onwards, the second player from the right is giving too much emphasis, to my ears. I'm so particular about it because this very minutes mean so much harmony, even comfort to me. I've known the piece since I've been twenty or so. I really love Reich's music, almost every one of his many compositions.
do not care
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Steve Reich and his creative names 👌
この曲はライブで聞くのがよいのですね。
This live performance is great. I noticed the beauty of this tune.
Amazing performance. Took me to another place.
Paris, don't take your ignorance too seriously...
Wombie qero os istru...mentos
Tallahassee!
such skill
I would just like to say that you are epic.
I listen to this piece every Saturday morning 🌈🌈🌈
I first discovered the Six Marimbas. Someone pointed out Six Pianos to me: "It's like the mist is removed". Also beautiful, actually incomparable. I still prefer the Marimba version because of the overtones.
Amazing performance. Thank you.
you have incredibly talented friends
DAVVERO STRAORDINARIO!
Well done, indeed.
One of Reich's percussionist friends thought it would be cool if it was re-scored for marimbas instead of pianos. Both versions of the piece are published.
Well Reich definitely owes him one, cuz the marimba version is WAY cooler IMO.
It bean 9 years
Sounds great / great performance!
It's so neat how our individual experiences can shape our interpretation and recognition of music!
Very nice! I went to McGill too.
these guys are thinking hard!
The ending! Wow
I would really love to try to play Steve Reich's music in an ensemble some day, just for the experience.
É necessário muito treinamento para obter a sincronização necessária à evolução timbrica no minimalismo. Muito bom o grupo!
This is the type of lullaby i get lost into. Progressions are perfection.
FAN TAS TIC.
Absolutely beautiful. Unbelievable coordination between the group.
That would have been the *coolest* recital to attend! I really love it when people program recital music which is off the beaten path!
das ist ja ein super cooles video
ich liebe es
ähhh nein
halts maul
@@Karambolage17 ich stimme ihnen zu
@@Karambolage17 That escalated quickly XD
"Once upon the time" At ZELLERBACK AUDITORIUM UCB ... wonderful refresh
thank you very much