스티브 라이히

소개

스티븐 마이클 라이히(Stephen Michael Reich, 1936년 10월 3일 ~ )는 1960년대 중반에서 후반의 미니멀리즘 음악의 발달에 기여한 것으로 알려진 미국의 작곡가이다.

Stephen Michael Reich is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich describes this concept in his essay "Music as a Gradual Process" by stating, "I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music." For example, his early works experiment with phase shifting, in which one or more repeated phrases plays slower or faster than the others, causing it to go "out of phase." This creates new musical patterns in a perceptible flow.