Sound Waves

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Sound Waves

• Minimalist Music, Structural Film, and the
  Prelinguistic Real
• David Sterritt, Ph.D.

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In language there is reflection and therefore
language cannot express the immediate.

• Soren Kierkegaard, quoted by psychoanalytic
  theorist Mladen Dolar in Mladen Dolar and Slavoj
  Zizek, Operas Second Death (2002).

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Minimalist music --Composer Steve Reich
Steve Reich, Clapping Music, 1972
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Steve Reich, Violin Phase, 1967
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Steve Reich, Piano Phase, 1967
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Steve Reich, Pendulum Music, 1968
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Steve Reich, Eight Lines, 1979
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Steve Reich, New York Counterpoint, 1985
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Steve Reich, Six Marimbas, 1986
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Steve Reich, Electric Counterpoint, 1987
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Steve Reich, Nagoya Marimbas, 1994
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Album jacket - Steve Reich, Octet/Music for a
Large Ensemble/Phase Patterns
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Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach - Kneeplay,
1976
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Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach - Train,
1976
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Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach - Train,
1976
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Einstein on the Beach - Train, 1976
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Philip Glass, String Quartet No. 5, 1991
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Philip Glass, The Hours - The Poet Acts, 2002
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Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967
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Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967
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Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967
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Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967
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Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967
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Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967
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Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967
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Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967
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Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967
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Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967
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Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967
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Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967
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Steve Reich, Four Organs / Phase Patterns(album
jacket)
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How small a thought it takes to fill a whole
life! Ludwig Wittgenstein, used by Steve
Reich as the text for Proverb (1995).