Two Guitars
Download a recording of Two Guitars here.
This is an homage to one of my musical heroes, the minimalist composer Steve Reich. I use the term “homage” because “outright theft of concept” lacks a certain subtlety. (But I’m certainly not the first to run with his ideas.)
So, what’s going on here? There are two parts. Guitar 1, (on the left side of the stereo spectrum), plays the seven bars over and over while Guitar 2 on the right side plays the same thing, except with each repetition of the material it gets further behind by an eighth note. This is inspired by the earlier “phasing” works of Reich as well as his essay “Music as a Gradual Process.”
I’ve gotta say, over-dubbing the second guitar part proved to be devilishly difficult as it required from me a middle way between “listening” and “not listening” to the original guitar line.
Enjoy.
posted by Mike @ 2:56 PM
3 Comments:
Very nice! I feel like going through another Steve Reich phase..............ahem!
The repeats really make it work well.
beautiful!
that's really cool. and very soothing. i had to go take care of something out of the room for a minute while i was listening to it and is sounded really beautiful drifting in from the other room.
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