Earlier this year, Steve Reich joined Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore for a discussion of the composer's career at the annual South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. Pitchfork Media's new video site, pitchfork.tv, recorded the event back in March and has now posted it as a two-part special presentation you can watch here. Moore opens the interview by claiming the pioneering minimalist composer as one of his own, declaring: "Whether he knows it or not, he's kind of a rock 'n' roller." Moore says that the 1971 piece Drumming was his introduction to Reich's music.
Earlier this year, Steve Reich joined Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore for a discussion of the composer's career at the annual South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. Pitchfork Media's new video site, pitchfork.tv, recorded the event back in March and has now posted it as a two-part special presentation you can watch here.
Moore opens the interview by claiming the pioneering minimalist composer as one of his own, declaring: "Whether he knows it or not, he's kind of a rock 'n' roller." Moore says that the 1971 piece Drumming was his introduction to Reich's music. In addition to the interview, you can watch excerpts from the SxSW performance of that piece by So Percussion in Part 1 and Nagoya Marimbas (1994) and Music for Pieces of Wood by the ensemble in Part 2 of the Pitchfork presentation. Part 2 also includes excerpts from performances of New York Counterpoint (1985) by Stephanie Key and SOLI Chamber Ensemble and Electric Counterpoint (1987, originally recorded by Pat Metheny) by guitarist C.E. Whalen.
Part 1
Part 2
