Sumanth Gopinath and Jason Treuting – Episode 35
Noted scholar, Sumanth Gopinath, has an in-depth conversation with Jason Treuting and Josh Quillen about cultural appropriation in music and the differences between mimicry, theft, and caricature.
Russell Hartenberger – Episode 34
Russell Hartenberger discusses the early rehearsals of Drumming and how Steve Reich’s music, along with African drumming, Indian music, and gamelan, sparked his interest in the study of rhythm.
Hearing in Reverse
– A fresh look at Drumming and Come Out that makes us wonder if what we thought was happening was actually happening and if our bodies actually understand what we hear.
Relationship and Community in the Creative Process:<br/>The Steve Reich and Musicians Ensemble
– An examination of the function of relationship and community in the creation of Steve Reich’s Drumming, and an assessment of the benefits and challenges of collaborative approaches to creating music.
Texture, Space, Survival: The Beauty and Challenge of Steve Reich’s <I>Drumming</i>
– An examination of the challenges and rewards of playing the percussion music of Steve Reich using the themes of “Texture, Space, and Survival” as taken from a 1987 Reich essay of the same name.
A Companion to <i>Mallet Quartet</i>: Rhythmic Voice Leading Prototypes
– A presentation of rhythmic voice leading as a pedagogical application of beat-class analysis to identify transformations of rhythmic motives in Steve Reich’s Mallet Quartet.
Digital Phasing: Using Latency as an Agent for Metric Change
– Commissioned as part of the Digital Phasing project by Louise Devenish, Jet Kye Chong’s Still Drumming 2020 exploits latency and geographical distance, offering a pandemic perspective on Reich’s signature techniques.
Julia Wolfe – Episode 33
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Julia Wolfe, discusses the break from tyranny in composition, the joyfulness of Steve Reich’s compositions, and finding yourself as a young composer.
Barbara Hannigan – Episode 32
Renowned singer/conductor Barbara Hannigan talks about pitch as resonance, the omni-directional aspects of rhythm, vibrato, equilibrium, and the confidence she derived from performing Drumming with Nexus and Kroumata when she was only twenty years old.
Kerry O’Brien – Episode 31
Kerry O’Brien is a percussionist/musicologist who has played Drumming and written extensively about Steve Reich’s music. She discusses his music from the dual perspective of a performer and a researcher.