Event overview
Steve Reich has had to cancel todays talk. He realises this is disappointing news and is sorry to everyone who planned to attend.
The Department of Art Talks Programme Autumn 2019 welcomes internationally acclaimed composer Steve Reich who will be in-conversation with lecturer Paul B. Davis.
Steve Reich has been called "...America's greatest living composer." (The Village VOICE),"...the most original musical thinker of our time" (The New Yorker) and "...among the great composers of the century" (The New York Times). From his early taped speech piece It's Gonna Rain (1965) to his and video artist Beryl Korot's digital video opera Three Tales (2002), Reich's path has embraced not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. "There's just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them," states The Guardian.
Born in New York, Reich graduated with honors in philosophy from Cornell University in 1957. From 1958 to 1961 he studied at the Juilliard School of Music and he received his M.A. in Music from Mills College in 1963, where he worked with Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud. Starting in the mid-1960’s, Reich pioneered minimal music along with La Monte Young, Philip Glass and Terry Riley.
Reich has been awarded the Praemium Imperiale Award, the Polar Music Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, and a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Many other artists and musicians have cited Reich’s work as an influence, including Brian Eno, The Residents, Bruce Nauman, Tortoise, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and The Orb – who sampled his Electric Counterpoint in their seminal rave track Little Fluffy Clouds.
His collaboration with artist Gerhard Richter will be performed at the Barbican in London on the 23rd of October, 2019. Titled Reich/Richter, the 37-minute work for 14 players explores the shared sensory language of visual art and music.
Paul B. Davis is a Lecturer in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths. A classically trained harpsichordist, he has DJ’ed alongside Skepta and Aphex Twin and released music on Mixpak, Soundslike, Top Nice and Beige Records. Paul regularly exhibits his visual art at Seventeen Gallery, London and recently completed a practice-based PhD in Fine Art from Central St. Martins, titled “Turing-completeness as Medium: Art, Computers and Intentionality”.
This event is for Goldsmiths students and staff only.
We are not taking any bookings or reserving seats.
Entry will be on a first come basis with a valid Goldsmiths ID card, priority for students from the Art Department.
Dates & times
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23 Oct 2019 | 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
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