Minimalism

Yesterday in my Music History 3 class, we discussed minimalism.

Which reminds me of this t-shirt.

But anyway.

We listened to a lot of Steve Reich's music. "It's Gonna Rain", "Clapping Music", "New York Counterpoint: I. Fast", and "Violin Phase". Let's just say it's not my favorite stuff. It's incredibly repetitive and it makes me want to sleep.

In fact, "Violin Phase" is 15 minutes and 19 seconds long. And I did sleep. I fell asleep, in fact, on my keyboard.

My notes went like this:

• Violin Phase - Steve Reich
• 15 minutes long
• 2 violins - one plays the same thing the whole time (steady), the other shiftsmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
  mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
  mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
  mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
  mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
  mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
  mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Classic.